Historical Events In February - 05
Thursday, 19 February 2026
0816 Frankish emperor Louis grants archbishop Salzburg immunity 

1428 King Alfonso V, orders Sicily's Jews to attend conversion sermons 

1488 Roman catholic German emperor Maximilian I caught in Belgium. 

1512 French troops under Gaston de Foix rescues Bologna. 

1556 Kings Henri I and Philip II sign Treaty of Vaucelles 

1572 Beggars assault Oisterwijk Netherlands, drive nuns out 

1572 Beggars assault Oisterwijk Neth, drive nuns out 

1576 Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours 

1578 Giovanni B Moroni, Italian portrait painter, dies. 

1589 Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan, French playwright/poet 

1591 Gerard de Jode, Flemish publisher, dies. 

1597 A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society. 

1631 Rhode Island, founder, Roger Williams arrives in Boston from England 

1644 inaugural US livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut. 

1644 1st US livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut. 

1649 Prince of Wales is recorded as becoming king Charles II 

1658 Maria Margaretha van Angels, Dutch prioress at Oirschot, dies at 52. 

1662 Giuseppi Vignola, composer. 

1663 Earthquake in Canada. 

1679 German emperor Leopold I signs peace with France 

1679 Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet (Gysbreght van Aemstel), dies at 91 

1705 Jean Gilles, composer, dies at 37 

1711 Joseph Umstatt, composer. 

1721 James Stanhope 1st earl of Stanhope, English general, dies at 47 

1723 John Witherspoon, clergyman/signed Declaration of Independence 

1732 Nathanael Gottfried Gruner, composer. 

1736 Methodists John and Charles Wesley arrive in Savannah GA. 

1736 Methodists John and Charles Wesley arrive in Savannah, Georgia. 

1738 Georg Reidel, composer, dies at 61 

1744 John Jeffries, colonial physician/meteorologist. 

1745 Coelestin Praelisauer, composer, dies at 49 

1748 Christian Gottlob Neefe, German composer/conductor/tutor of Beethoven. 

1753 Coert L van Beyma thoe Kingma, Frisian regent/patriot 

1754 Nicolaas S Cruquius, hydraulic engineer, (Haarlemmermeer), dies at 75. 

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