Today in History on This Day Tuesday 26th November 2013 Historical Events Events 1 - 15 43 BC - The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (Octavian, later Caesar Augustus), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony is formed. 579 - Pelagius II begins his reign as Catholic Pope 783 - Asturian queen Adosinda was put in the monastery of San Juan de Pravia, where she lived out the rest of her life, to prevent her kin from retaking the throne from Mauregatus. 1476 - Vlad III Dracula defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Bathory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time. 1527 - Pope Clemens VII signs treaty with emperor Karel I 1580 - French Huguenots & Roman Catholics sign peace treaty 1598 - Jacob of Necks merchant fleet reaches Bantam West-Java 1648 - Pope Innocent X condemns Peace of Westphalia 1688 - Duke of Savoye signs on to League of Augsburg 1688 - French King Louis XIV declares war on Netherlands 1688 - King James II escapes back to London 1702 - Premiere of Colley Cibbers King Imposter 1703 - Great storm hits Southern England thousands killed, Royal Navy losses 13 ships and around 1,500 seamen 1716 - 1st lion exhibited in America (Boston) 1741 - French & Beiers army occupies Prague Todays Historical Events » Famous Birthdays Born Today Chemist/Nobel Laureate Karl ZieglerChemist/Nobel Laureate Karl Ziegler (1898) Birthdays 1 - 15 1288 - Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (d. 1339) 1436 - Princess Catherine of Portugal, writer (d. 1463) 1607 - John Harvard, England, clergyman/scholar, founded Harvard Univ 1609 - Henry Dunster, English president of Harvard College (d. 1659) 1640 - Carl Rosier, composer 1653 - Andreas Anton Schmelzer, composer 1657 - William Derham, English minister and writer (d. 1735) 1663 - Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo, Peruvian poet (Obras Dramaticas) 1678 - Jean Jacques dOrtous de Mairan, French geophysicist (d. 1771) 1703 - Theophilus Cibber, English actor and writer (d. 1758) 1731 - William Cowper, England, pre-romantic poet (His Task) [NS] 1736 - Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, French publisher (Mercure de France) 1744 - Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff, composer 1754 - Georg Forster, writer 1795 - Carl P Fohr, German painter Todays Famous Birthdays » Famous Weddings Weddings 1 - 4 1924 - Comic actor Charlie Chaplin (35) weds The Kid actress Lita Grey (16) in Mexico 1981 - Legendary jazz trumpeter Miles Davis (55) weds Sounder actress Cicely Tyson (47) at the home of actor Bill Cosby 1993 - The chief political strategist for President Clintons campaign and political commentator James Carville (49) weds Republican political pundit Mary Matalin (40) in New Orleans, Louisiana 2011 - The Sugarland singer Jennifer Nettles (37) weds entrepreneur Justin Miller at a chapel nestled in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee Todays Famous Weddings » Famous Deaths Passed Away Today Abolitionist and Womens Rights Advocate Sojourner TruthAbolitionist and Womens Rights Advocate Sojourner Truth (1883) Deaths 1 - 15 399 - Pope Staint Siricius, reigned 384-99 666 - Yeon Gaesomun dictator of Goguryeo (other sources indicate death date as 664 or 665) 1126 - Al-Borsoki, emir of Aleppo-Mosoel, assassinated 1240 - Edmund Van Abingdon, archbishop of Canterbury/saint, dies 1252 - Blanche of Castile, Queen of Louis VIII of France (b. 1188) 1267 - Gozzolini Silvester, Italian hermit/saint, dies 1326 - Hugh the younger Despenser, English knight (b. 1286) 1504 - Queen Isabella I of Castile (b. 1451) 1621 - Radulph Agas, English surveyor (C. 1540) 1639 - John Spottiswoode, Scottish historian (b. 1565) 1651 - Henry Ireton, English gen/parliament leader (Marston Moor), dies at 40 1653 - Maximilian Teellinck, vicar, dies at about 51 1688 - Philippe Quinault, French playwright (Lamant Indiscreet), dies at 53 1689 - Marquard Gude, German archaeologist (b. February 1, 1635) 1717 - Daniel Purcell, British composer (b. 1664)
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