The Phenomenon of August 31: A Day Filled with Surprises and Celebrations Natural Disasters & Epidemics

0012  Caligula, [Gaius Caesar], 3rd Roman emperor (37-41 AD).   

0161  Lucius A A Coomodus, emperor of Rome (180-91).   

0651  Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne, Irish bishop and missionary.   

1056  Byzantine Empress Theodora is recorded as becoming ill, dying suddenly a few days later, without children to succeed the throne, ending the Macedonian dynasty.   

1057  Leofric, count of Mercia/husband of Lady Godiva, dies   

1142  With the aid of Hiawatha and Deganawidah, The Great Peacemaker, the Iroquois tribes establish the Confederation of the Haudenosaunee   

1158  Sancho III, King of Castile, dies.   

1218  Al-Malik ab-Adil/Saphadin/Saif al-Din), brother of Saladin, dies.   

1230  Utrecht bishop Willebrand grants Swells state justice   

1310  German king Heinrich VII makes his son Johan king of Bohemia   

1422  Henry VI, is recorded as becoming King of England at the age of 9 months.   

1422  Henry V, King of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19), dies   

1535  Pope Paul II deposed and excommunicated King Henry VIII.   

1569  Djehangir/Jahangir, great mogol of India   

1590  Floris Thin, politician/land advocate of Utrecht, dies.   

1602  Amalia, countess of Solms-Braunfels, wife of Gov Frederik Hendrik.   

1604  Giovanale Ancina, composer, dies at 58   

1616  Gemignano Capilupi, composer, dies at 43   

1631  Nicolaus Erich, composer, dies at 43.   

1638  John Ward, composer, dies at 67.   

1663  Guillaume Amontons, French physicist.   

1667  Johann Rist, composer, dies at 60.   

1688  Death in London of John Bunyan, English author of The Pilgrim's Progress   

1688  John Bunyan, preacher/novelist/author (Pilgrim's Progress), dies   

1696  Johann Paul Kunzen, composer.   

1741  Johann Paul Aegidius Martini, composer.   

1748  Jean-Etienne Despreaux, composer   

1749  Radistschew, writer.   

1751  English troops under sir Robert Clive occupy Arcot India.   

1755  Johann Ignaz Walter, composer.   

1772  Hurricane destroy ships off Dominica.   

1775  Francois de Paule Jacques Raymond de Fossa, composer.   

1778  British kill 17 Stockbridge indians in the Bronx during Revolution   

1778  British kill 17 Stockbridge indians in Bronx during Revolution.   

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