On this day in History - Dec. 7

Published: December 6, 2007, 6:45 pm

Tags: this day in history, efemerides

43 BC - Cicero dies (b. 106 BC). Roman politician and author. 0283 - Pope Eutychian dies.0521 - Saint Columba was born (d. 0597). Irish Christian missionary to Scotland.0903 - Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi was born (d. 0986). Persian astronomer.0983 - Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor dies.1254 - Pope Innocent IV dies.1279 - King Boleslaus V of Poland dies (b. 1226) 1295 - Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford dies (b. 1243). English politician.1302 - Azzone Visconti was born (d. 1339). Lord of Milan.1493 - Columbus left the ruined settlement of La Navidad and sailed east for a month till he reached the site that became La Isabela in the Dominican Republic.1498 - Alexander Hegius von Heek dies. German humanist.1545 - Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley was born (d. 1567). Consort of Mary I of Scotland1561 - Kikkawa Hiroie was born (d. 1625). Japanese politician.1562 - Adrian Willaert dies. Flemish composer.1598 - Giovanni "Gian" Lorenzo Bernini was born (d. 28 Nov 1680). Italian sculptor, painter,

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