Historical Events In July - 30
Wednesday, 04 February 2026
0578 Jacob Baradaeus, Bishop of Edessa 

0579 Benedict I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 

0579 Benedict I, Italian Pope (575-79), dies. 

0657 In this year, St Vitalian starts his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Eugene I 

1178 Frederick I (Barbarossa), Holy Roman Emperor, crowned King of Burgundy 

1419 Anti-Catholic Hussites, followers of executed reformer Jan Hus, stormtown hall in Prague and throw Catholic councillors out the windows 

1511 Giorgio Vasari, Italy, painter/art historian (Vasari's Lives) 

1516 Johan V Nassau, earl of Nassau-Vianden/Dietz, dies 

1528 Jacopo d'antonio Negreti Palma, Italian painter, dies at about 48 

1537 Resistant of Bomy: French/Dutch cease fire 

1601 Spanish garrison of Rhine birch surrenders to Earl Mauritius. 

1608 At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and results in the deaths of two Iroquois chiefs. This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the next one hundred years. 

1618 Prince Maurits' troops pull into Utrecht 

1619 House of Burgesses Virginia formed, the inaugural elective US governing body. 

1619 House of Burgesses Virginia forms, 1st elective US governing body. 

1626 Earthquake hits Naples; 10000 die. 

1629 An earthquake in Naples, Italy results in the deaths of 10000 people. 

1646 English parliament sets king Charles I Newcastle Propositions. 

1650 Prince Willem II occupies Amsterdam. 

1652 John Cloppenburg, vicar/theologist, dies at 68. 

1653 Johan de Witt sworn in as pension advisor of Holland 

1655 Dutch troops occupy Fort Assahudi Seram 

1655 Sigmund Theophil Staden, composer, dies at 47. 

1678 English troops lands in Flanders 

1712 Abraham Elsevier, publisher, dies. 

1715 Spanish gold and silver fleet disappears off St Lucie, Florida 

1718 William Penn, English Quaker/colonizer (No cross, no crown), dies 

1727 Franz Weichlein, composer, dies at 67 

1729 City of Baltimore founded. 

1733 Society of Freemasons opens inaugural American lodge in Boston 

1733 Society of Freemasons opens 1st American lodge in Boston. 

1739 Caspar Wistar begins glass manufacturing in Allowaystown, NJ. 

1741 Wierich PL count von Daun, gov-gen of Austria and Netherlands, dies. 

1747 Antonio Benedetto Maria Puccini, composer. 

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