Historical Events In February - 17

0364  Flavius Jovianus, Christian emperor of Rome (363-64), dies at about 32   

0440  Mesrop Mashtots.   

0956  Hugo the Great, earl of Paris/duke of Francia, dies at about 55   

1370  Battle at Rudau: Germany beats Lithuania   

1371  Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria   

1444  Rudolf Agricola, [Roelof Huysman], Dutch humanist/organist.   

1490  Charles de Bourbon, officer/governor (Lombardy)   

1500  Battle of Hemmingstedt   

1568  Holy Roman Emperor agrees to pay tribute to the Sultan for peace   

1583  J Henry Alting, Dutch theologist   

1598  Boris Godunov chosen tsar of Russia.   

1600  Philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive at Campo de' Fiori in Rome, charged of heresy   

1600  Giordano Bruno, advocate of Copernican theory, burned at stake.   

1612  Ernst of Bayern, prince/bishop of Luik/archbish Cologne, dies at 57.   

1621  Miles Standish appointed 1st commander of Plymouth colony.   

1634  William Prynne tried in Star Chamber for publishing "Histrio-masti   

1652  Gregorio Allegri, Italian singer/composer (Miserere), dies at about 67   

1653  Arcangelo Corelli, Fusignano Italy, violinist/comp (Concerto Grossi)   

1654  Michael Lohr, composer, dies at 62.   

1667  Georg Bronner, composer.   

1670  France and Bavaria sign military assistance treaty   

1673  Moliare, [Jean Baptiste Poquelin], French author (Learned Lady), dies.   

1675  Johann Melchior Conradi, composer   

1676  Kings Charles II and Louis XIV sign secret treaty   

1688  Rev James Renwick, hanged in Scotland for being a Presbyterian.   

1691  Thomas Neale granted British patent for American postal service.   

1696  Baron Ernst Gottlieb, composer.   

1697  Louis-Maurice de La Pierre, composer.   

1699  Hans Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, German architect (Sanssouci)   

1714  Parliament of Paris accepts Pope Clemens XI's "Unigenitus" degree   

1715  Antoine Galland, French interpreter, dies at 68   

1723  Tobias Mayer, "method of lunars" for longitude determination.   

1732  Louis Marchand, composer, dies at 63.   

1740  Horace B de Saussure, Swiss physicist/geologist   

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1444  On February - 17 birth of rudolf Agricola, [Roelof Huysman], Dutch humanist/organist   

1490  On February - 17 birth of charles de Bourbon, officer/governor (Lombardy)   

1519  On February - 17 birth of francis, Duke of Guise, French soldier and politician (d. 1563)   

1581  On February - 17 birth of fausto Poli, Italian Catholic priest (d. 1653)   

1583  On February - 17 birth of j Henry Alting, Dutch theologist   

1646  On this day in history birth of pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist (d. 1714)   

1653  Arcangelo Corelli, Fusignano Italy, violinist/comp (Concerto Grossi) was born on February - 17.   

1667  On February - 17 birth of georg Bronner, composer   

0364  On February - 17 flavius Jovianus, Christian emperor of Rome (363-64), dies at about 32   

0440  On February - 17 death of mesrop Mashtots   

0956  On February - 17 hugo the Great, earl of Paris/duke of Francia, dies at about 55   

1339  Death of Otto, Duke of Austria (b. 1301) on February - 17.   

1371  Death of Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria on this day in history.   

1596  Death of Friedrich Sylburg, German classical scholar (b. 1536) on this day in history.   

1600  Death of Giordano Bruno, advocate of Copernican theory, burned at stake on February - 17.   

1609  On February - 17 death of ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1549)