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  Su Tung-p'o, [J Sotoba], China, layman/poet/administrator [or Dec 19] was born on this day in history.  

1477  On this day in history birth of anna de Bretagne, wife of Maximilian of Austria & Louis XII  

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  John van de Cappelle, Amsterdam, landscape painter was born on this day in history.  

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

1634  Gaspar Fagel, lawyer/pension advisor of Holland (1672-88) was born on this day in history.  

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

0844  On this day in history death of pope Gregory IV  

1067  On this day in history death of emperor Yingzong of China (b. 1032)  

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

1139  On this day in history godfried I, with the Beard, duke of Brabant/earl of Leuven, dies  

1366  On this day in history death of henry Suso, German mystic  

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

1494  Ferdinand I, cruel king of Naples, dies on this day in history.