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  Giovanni Morone, Italian theologist/diplomat/cardinal/"heretic" was born on this day in history.   

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  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  Death of Charles II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1364) on this day in history.   

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