[Loch-Ruadh] Today in February 7

[Steve K. Rourke]

Born
1478 Sir Thomas More lawyer/lord chancellor of England/saint (Utopia)
1556 Maria van Nassau Dutch countess of Buren
1589 Jacob de Witt Dutch mayor (Dordrecht)/mathematician

Deaths
0590 Pelagius II Gothic Pope (579-90), dies from plague
1593 Jacques Amyot French humanist/abbot of Bellozanne, dies at 79
1609 Ferdinand I cardinal/ruler of Toscane, dies

Other events
1301 Edward of Caernarion (later Edward II) becomes 1st prince of Wales
1522 Treaty of Brussels Habsburgers split into Spanish/Austrian Branches
1550 Giovanni Maria del Monte elected Pope Julius III
1569 King Philip II forms inquistion in South America




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