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Friday, March 04
On This Date In 306 Saint Adrian or Adrian of Nicomedia, was a Herculian Guard of the Roman Emperor Galerius Maximian. After becoming a convert to Christianity with his wife Natalia, Adrian was martyred at Nicomedia on March 4, 306. On This Date In 1152 Frederick I Barbarossa (1122 - 10 Jun...
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Friday, February 25
On This Date In 1570 Pope Pius V excommunicated Elizabeth I, and absolved her subjects of allegiance to the Protestant queen. On This Date In 1634 During The Thirty Years War, a highly complex.series of military and political conflicts, Emperor Ferdinand, fearing Wallenstein’s power, with c...
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Friday, February 18
On This Date In 1229 Frederick II, King of Prussia (1772-1786), from the Hohenzollern dynasty, signed a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy. In addition, Frederick received Nazareth, Sidon,...
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Friday, February 11
In 1872, the Meiji government proclaimed February 11, 660 BC, in the Gregorian calendar the foundation day of Japan, which was then commemorated as the holiday Kigensetsu ("Era Day") On This Date In 1776 Georgia's royal governor, Sir James Wright, escaped from his residence in Savannah to th...
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Friday, February 04
On This Date In 1567 to July 5, 1572 the Longqing Emperor reigned as the 12th Emperor of the Ming Dynasty in China. His era name means "Great celebration". On This Date In 1861 The Montgomery Convention, marking the formal beginning of the Confederate States of America, convened in Montg...
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Friday, January 28
On This Date In 1547 King Henry VIII died at the age of 53. On This Date In 1813 "Pride and Prejudice" was published, and has always been Jane Austen's most popular novel. She began writing the novel which later became Pride and Prejudice in October of 1796, finishing it by August of 1979 a...