Events & Holidays In January - 25

Burns Night (Scotland)

Commemoration Birthday of G.F. Croes (Aruba)

Foundation Day (Sao Paulo) (Brazil)

Kirmeline (Lithuania)

St. Tatiana Day (beginning of Winter Holiday) (Russia)

1037  On this day in history birth of su Tung-p'o, [J Sotoba], China, layman/poet/administrator [or Dec 19]   

1477  Anna de Bretagne, wife of Maximilian of Austria & Louis XII was born on this day in history.   

1509  On this day in history birth of giovanni Morone, Italian theologist/diplomat/cardinal/"heretic"   

1540  On this day in history birth of edmund Campion, London, saint/Jesuit martyr (Decem Rationes)   

1615  Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (Isaac blesses Jacob) was born on this day in history.   

1626  On this day in history birth of john van de Cappelle, Amsterdam, landscape painter   

1627  Robert Boyle, Ireld, physicist/chemist/author (experiments with color) was born on this day in history.   

1634  On this day in history birth of gaspar Fagel, lawyer/pension advisor of Holland (1672-88)   

0477  Death of Geiseric, King of the Vandals and Alans on this day in history.   

0844  Death of Pope Gregory IV on this day in history.   

1067  Death of Emperor Yingzong of China (b. 1032) on this day in history.   

1138  On this day in history anacletus II, [Pietro Pierleone], Jewish anti-pope (1130-38), dies   

1139  Godfried I, with the Beard, duke of Brabant/earl of Leuven, dies on this day in history.   

1366  Death of Henry Suso, German mystic on this day in history.   

1431  On this day in history death of charles II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1364)   

1494  On this day in history ferdinand I, cruel king of Naples, dies