Historical Events In February - 13
Friday, 27 March 2026
0858 Kenneth I of Scotland. 

1130 Pope Honorius II dies this day and Gregorio Papareschi is elected to succeed him as Innocent II, but Cardinal Pierleone is elected as an antipope, and Innocent flees to France 

1130 Gregorio de' Papareschi elected as Pope Innocent II. 

1130 Honorius II, [Lamberto], Pope (1124-30), dies 

1199 Stefanus Nemanja (Symeon), monk, dies 

1237 Jordanus of Saxon, 2nd general of Dominicans, drowns. 

1258 Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed. 

1315 Jean I of Chalon-Arlay, mayor of Neuchôtel, dies 

1332 Andronicus II Paleologus, Byzantine emperor (1282-1328)/monk, dies. 

1349 Jews are expelled from Burgsordf Switzerland 

1440 Hartmann Schedel, German physician/humanist/historian 

1503 Disfida di Barletta. 

1510 Charles of Gelre conquerors Oldenzaal. 

1542 Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of England's King Henry VIII, is beheaded for adultery. 

1542 Catharine Howard, queen of England/5th wife of Henry VIII, beheaded 

1545 Willem of Nassau is recorded as becoming prince of Orange 

1566 St Augustine FL founded. 

1566 St. Augustine, Florida is founded. 

1566 St Augustine, Florida founded 

1575 Henry III of France is crowned at Rheims. 

1592 Jacopo Bassano, Italian painter. 

1599 Alexander VII, [Fabio Chigi], Siena Italy, pope (1655-67) 

1601 John Lancaster leads 1st East India Company voyage from London 

1602 Alexander Nowell, English churchman, dean of St Paul's, dies. 

1610 Jean de la Badie, French divine, founder of Lagardists. 

1622 Adam Pijnacker, landscape painter/etcher, baptized 

1629 Girolamo Giacobbi, composer, dies at 61 

1633 Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun. 

1635 America's inaugural public school was established - the Boston Latin School 

1635 Oldest US public institution, Boston Latin School founded 

1635 The inaugural public school in America opens in Boston, Massachusetts 

1635 Georg R Weckerlin, German poet, dies at 50. 

1641 The Iroquois Confederacy of the Long House formally declares war against New France; still resent Champlain's treaty with the Hurons and Algonquins. 

1651 Flemish missionary Joris van Geel departs to Congo 

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