January 6

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[edit] Events

• 1066 - Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England.
• 1205 - Philip of Swabia becomes King of the Romans.
• 1449 - Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI is crowned at Mistra.
• 1494 - The first Mass in the New World is celebrated at La Isabela, Hispaniola.
• 1540 - King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves
• 1579 - The Union of Atrecht is signed.
• 1649 - The Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial
• 1661 - The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London.
• 1690 - Joseph, son of Emperor Leopold I, becomes King of the Romans.
• 1781 - In the Battle of Jersey on 6 January the British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey.
• 1806 - Horatio Nelson is laid to rest in Saint Paul's Cathedral in London
• 1838 - Samuel Morse first successfully tests the electrical telegraph.
• 1900 - Boers attack Ladysmith, South Africa - over 1,000 people killed.
• 1912 - New Mexico became the 47th state of the United States.
• 1931 - Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.

[edit] Births

• 1367 - Richard II of England (d. 1400)
• 1412 - Joan of Arc, Roman Catholic Saint and national heroine of France (legendary date) (d. 1431)
• 1486 - Martin Agricola, German composer (d. 1556)
• 1488 - Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet (d. 1540)
• 1525 - Caspar Peucer, German reformer (d. 1602)
• 1561 - Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician (d. 1656)
• 1587 - Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman (d. 1645)
• 1595 - Claude Favre de Vaugelas, French man of letters (d. 1650)
• 1617 - Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (d. 1673)
• 1655 - Eleonore-Magdalena of Neuburg, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1720)
• 1706 - Benjamin Franklin, American statesman (d. 1790)
• 1714 - Percivall Pott, English physician (d. 1788)
• 1822 - Heinrich Schliemann, German archeologist and discover of ancient Troy (d. 1890)
• 1902 - Helmut Poppendick, German physician (d. 1994)
• 1920 - Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church

[edit] Deaths

• 664 - Amr ibn al-A'as, Arab general (bc. 583)
• 1088 - Berengar of Tours, French theologian (bc. 999)
• 1448 - Christopher of Bavaria, King of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (b. 1418)
• 1537 - Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (b. 1510)
• 1537 - Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1481)
• 1616 - Philip Henslowe, English theatrical entrepreneur (bc. 1550)
• 1689 - Seth Ward, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1617)
• 1711 - Philipp van Almonde, Dutch admiral (b. 1646)
• 1718 - Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist (b. 1664)
• 1718 - Richard Hoare, English goldsmith and banker (b. 1648)
• 1919 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States (b. 1858)