Historical Events In May - 15

0392  On May - 15 valentinianus II, emperor of Rome (375-392), murdered at 21  

0756  Abd-al-Rahman I becomes emir of Cordova Spain on this day in history.  

0884  Marinus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope on this day in history.  

0884  On this day in history marinus I, [Martinus II], Pope (882-84), dies  

0913  On May - 15 hatto I, Archbishop of Mainz  

1004  On May - 15 henry II the Saint crowned king of Italy  

1157  Yury Dolgoruky, Russian prince on May - 15.  

1174  Nur ad-Din Mahmud, King of Syria, dies on this day in history.  

1213  English king John names Stephen Langton Archbishop of Canterbury on this day in history.  

1248  Archbishop Konrad v Hochstaden lays cornerstone for Koln cathedral on this day in history.  

1252  On this day in history pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorizes, but also limits, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition.  

1381  On May - 15 eppelein von Gailingen, German robber baron  

1482  Paolo Toscanelli, Italian physician & mapmaker, dies on this day in history.  

1492  Cheese & Bread rebellion German mercenaries kills 232 Alkmaarse on this day in history.  

1492  On May - 15 cheese & Bread rebellion: German mercenaries kills 232 Alkmaarse  

1514  Jodocus Badius Ascensius publishes Christiern Pedersen's Latin version of Saxo’s Gesta Danorum, the oldest known version of that work on May - 15.  

1525  German boer army surrounded/slaughters 5,000; ends Boer war on May - 15.  

1536  On May - 15 anna Boleyn & Lord Rochford accused of adultery/incest  

1565  On May - 15 henrick de Keyser, architect/master builder of Amsterdam  

1567  On May - 15 mary, Queen of Scots marries James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell  

1567  On May - 15 claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi, Cremona Italy, composer (L'Orfeo)  

1572  Louis van Nassau & huguenots occupy Valenciennes on this day in history.  

1591  Dimitri Ivanovitch, Russian son of czar Ivan IV, murdered at 9 on this day in history.  

1602  On this day in history cape Cod discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold  

1610  On May - 15 louis XIII appointed King of France  

1610  Parliament of Paris appoints Louis XIII (8) as French king on this day in history.  

1618  On May - 15 johannes Kepler discovers harmonics law  

1621  On this day in history henrick de Keyser, Amsterdam's master builder, dies at 56  

1622  Peter Plancius, Flemish vicar/cartographer, dies at about 69 on May - 15.  

1625  On this day in history 16 rebellious farmers hanged in Vöcklamarkt Upper-Austria  

1625  On May - 15 16 rebellious farmers hanged in Vocklamarkt Upper-Austria  

1648  On May - 15 treaty of Münster Spain & Netherlands ratified  

1648  Treaty of Munster: Spain & Netherlands ratified on this day in history.  

1648  On this day in history treaty of Münster: Spain & Netherlands ratified  

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1565  On this day in history birth of henrick de Keyser, architect/master builder of Amsterdam  

1567  Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi, Cremona Italy, composer (L'Orfeo) was born on May - 15.  

1608  René Goupil, French Catholic missionary (Canadian Martyrs) (d. 1642) was born on this day in history.  

1720  On May - 15 birth of maximilian Hell, Slovakian astronomer (d. 1792)  

1749  On this day in history birth of levi Lincoln, Sr., American revolutionary, statesman, politician, and acting Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1820)  

1754  On this day in history birth of pierre Dutillieu, composer  

1759  Maria Theresia von Paradis, composer was born on this day in history.  

1764  On May - 15 birth of johann Nepomuk Kalcher, composer  

0392  On May - 15 death of valentinianus II, emperor of Rome (375-392), murdered at 21  

0884  Marinus I, [Martinus II], Pope (882-84), dies on May - 15.  

0913  Death of Hatto I, Archbishop of Mainz on May - 15.  

1036  On this day in history death of emperor Go-Ichijō of Japan (b. 1008)  

1157  On May - 15 death of yury Dolgoruky, Russian prince  

1174  Nur ad-Din Mahmud, King of Syria, dies on this day in history.  

1381  On May - 15 death of eppelein von Gailingen, German robber baron  

1470  Death of Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409) on May - 15.