Events on 6 January 45
See all →Year 1355
Charles I of Bohemia is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy as King of Italy in Milan.
Year 1492
The Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella enter Granada, completing the Reconquista.
Year 1661
English Restoration: The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London, England.
Public Holidays Around The World On This Day 18
Birthdays on 6 January 236
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Gertrude the Great
b. 1256 – d. 1302
Gertrude the Great, German mystic (d. 1302)
Richard II of England
b. 1367 – d. 1400
Richard II of England (b. 1367)
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Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent
b. 1384 – d. 1408
Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent, English politician (b. 1384)
Joan of Arc
b. 1412 – d. 1431
Joan of Arc, French martyr and saint (b. 1412)
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Martin Agricola
b. 1486 – d. 1556
Martin Agricola, German composer and theorist (b. 1486)
Helius Eobanus Hessus
b. 1488 – d. 1540
Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet and educator (b. 1488)
Olaus Petri
b. 1493 – d. 1552
Olaus Petri, Swedish clergyman (d. 1552)
John of Ávila
b. 1500 – d. 1569
John of Ávila, Spanish mystic and saint (b. 1500)
Caspar Peucer
b. 1525 – d. 1602
Caspar Peucer, German physician, scholar, and reformer (b. 1525)
Jane Dormer
b. 1538 – d. 1612
Jane Dormer, English lady-in-waiting to Mary I (b. 1538)
Thomas Fincke
b. 1561 – d. 1656
Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (b. 1561)
Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares
b. 1587 – d. 1645
Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman (b. 1587)
Deaths on 6 January 110
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Honoratus
d. 429 (b. 350)
Honoratus, French archbishop and saint (b. 350)
'Amr ibn al-'As
d. 664 (b. 583)
'Amr ibn al-'As, Arabian general and politician, Governor of Egypt (b. 583)
Abo of Tiflis
d. 786 (b. 756)
Abo of Tiflis, Iraqi martyr and saint (b. 756)
Hasan ibn Zayd
d. 884
Hasan ibn Zayd, Tabaristan ruler
Berengar of Tours
d. 1088 (b. 999)
Berengar of Tours, French scholar and theologian (b. 999)
Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke
d. 1148 (b. 1100)
Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke (b. 1100)
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William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey
d. 1148
William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey
Raymond of Penyafort
d. 1275 (b. 1175)
Raymond of Penyafort, Catalan archbishop and saint (b. 1175)
Giovanni I di Murta
d. 1350
Giovanni I di Murta, second doge of the Republic of Genoa
Gertrude van der Oosten
d. 1358
Gertrude van der Oosten, beguine
Peter IV of Aragon
d. 1387 (b. 1319)
Peter IV of Aragon (d. 1387)
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Roger Walden
d. 1406
Roger Walden, English bishop