Historical Events In February - 19
Monday, 20 April 2026
0003 Sadiq Hidajat, Persian writer (Blind Person Owl) 

0197 D Clodius Septimus Albinus, Roman bequest in England, dies in battle 

0197 Lucius Septimius Severus' army beats Clodius Albinus at Lyon. 

0356 Emperor Constantius II shuts all heathen temples 

0607 In this year, Boniface III starts his reign as Catholic Pope 

0842 Medieval Iconoclastic Controversy ends as a council in Constantinople formally reinstated the veneration of icons in the churches 

1260 Boniface, of Lausanne, Belgian bishop/saint, dies. 

1401 William Sawtree, 1st English religious martyr, burned in London. 

1414 Thomas Arundel, archbishop of Canterbury/chancellor of England, dies. 

1473 Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer is born. 

1512 French troops under Gaston de Foix occupy Brescia. 

1537 Weavers of Leiden Netherlands strike. 

1537 Weavers of Leiden Neth strike. 

1539 Jews of Tyrnau Hungary (then Trnava Czech), expelled. 

1545 Pierre Brully, [Peter Brulius], calvinist minister, burned to death 

1553 Erasmus Reinhold, German mathematician, dies at 41. 

1561 Mary Proclaimed Queen of Scots 

1568 Miles Coverdale, translator (1st complete English Bible), dies at 80. 

1574 Spanish troops plunder Krommenie, Wormerveer and Jisp Netherlands 

1574 Spanish troops plunder Krommenie, Wormerveer and Jisp Neth. 

1582 Francis of Valois is recorded as becoming duke of Brabant. 

1588 Pieter de Carpentier, Flemish gov-gen of Dutch East-Indies. 

1594 Having already inherited the throne of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth through his mother Catherine Jagellonica of Poland, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden, succeeding his father John III of Sweden 

1600 The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America. 

1605 Orazio Tiberio Vecchi, composer, dies at 54 

1611 Andries de Graeff, mayor of Amsterdam (1657..71). 

1616 Jacques de Saint-Luc, composer 

1619 Trial against Johan van Oldenbarnevelt begins in The Hague 

1620 Roemer P Visscher, poet, buried in Amsterdam 

1634 Battle at Smolensk Polish king Wladyslaw IV beats Russians. 

1634 Battle at Smolensk: Polish king Wladyslaw IV beats Russians [NS=Mar 1]. 

1653 Luigi Rossi, composer, dies. 

1671 Charles-Hubert Gervais, composer. 

1674 Netherlands and England sign Peace of Westminster (NYC is recorded as becoming English). 

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