Today in History 5th of January

Sameer Medhekar (Student) (4140 Points)

05 January 2009  

 In events:

January 5th 1349    Margaretha of Bavaria names her son Willem V earl of Holland/Zealand
January 5th 1438    Pope Eugenius IV deallocated council of Basel to Ferrara
January 5th 1463    French poet Fran‡ois Villon banished from Paris
January 5th 1477    Battle at Nancy, Burgundy vs Switz, 7000+ killed
January 5th 1500    Duke Ludovico Sforza's troops reconquer Milan
January 5th 1531    Pope Clemens VII forbids English king Henry VIII to re-marry
January 5th 1554    Great fire in Eindhoven Neth
January 5th 1593    William Louis of Nassau becomes governor/viceroy of Drenthe
January 5th 1638    Petition in Recife Brazil leads to closing of their 2 synagogues
January 5th 1649    Francesco Cavalli's opera "Giasone," premieres in Venice
January 5th 1675    Battle at Turkheim (Colmar): French army beats Brandenburg
January 5th 1709    Sudden extreme cold kills 1000s of Europeans
January 5th 1717    Prussian King Frederik Willem I buys conscriptt for nobles
January 5th 1719    Engl/Hannover/Saxony-Poland/Austria sign anti-Prussian/Russian pact
January 5th 1757    Failed assassination attempt on French king Louis XV by Damiens