Historical Events In March - 23
Wednesday, 17 June 2026
1026 Koenraad II crowns himself king of Italy. 

1066 18th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 

1153 Treaty of Konstanz between Frederik I "Barbarossa" and Pope Eugene III. 

1169 Shirkuh, Kurd general/vizier of Cairo/Saladin's uncle, dies 

1174 Jocelin, abbot of Melrose, is elected bishop of Glasgow 

1237 Jan of Brienne, King of Jerusalem/Emperor of Constantinople, dies. 

1369 Pedro, the Cruel, King/tyrant of Castile and Leon, murdered. 

1490 inaugural dated edition of Maimonides "Mishna Torah" published 

1490 1st dated edition of Maimonides "Mishna Torah" published 

1534 Aragonese legal code formally recognised 

1548 Itagaki Nobukata, retainer of Takeda Shingen. 

1555 Julius III, [Giovanni M del Monte], Pope (1550-55), dies at 67 

1568 Treaty of Longjumeau French huguenots go on strike 

1579 Friesland joins Union of Utrecht. 

1593 English Congressionalist Henry Barrow accused of slander. 

1596 Henry Unton, English diplomat 

1599 Thomas Selle, composer. 

1606 Justus Lipsius, [Joost Lips], Dutch classic philologist, dies at 58 

1618 James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn, Scottish politician 

1630 French troops occupy Pinerolo Piedmont. 

1638 Frederik Ruysch, Dutch anatomist 

1653 Johan van Galen, Dutch admiral (Dunes Monte Christo), dies at about 48 

1657 France and England form alliance against Spain; England gets Dunkirk. 

1658 Valentin Dretzel, composer, dies at 79 

1669 Philipp Buchner, composer, dies at 54. 

1699 John Bartram, naturalist/explorer, father of American botany 

1708 English pretender to the throne James III lands at Firth of Forth. 

1736 Iman Willem Falck, Dutch governor of Ceylon (1765-83). 

1743 George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Messiah" premieres in London. 

1743 English premiere of Handel's "Messiah" 

1748 Johann Gottfried Walther, German composer/musicologist, dies at 63 

1749 Hugo Franz Karl Alexander von Kerpen, composer 

1750 Johannes Matthias Sperger, composer 

1756 Georg Gottfried Wagner, composer, dies at 57 

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