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data/data/4/28.json

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"28",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"357",
+            "text":"Emperor Constantius II visits Rome"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"28",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1192",
+            "text":"Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, two days after his title to the throne confirmed by election. Killing carried out by Hashshashin."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"28",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1202",
+            "text":"King Philip II throws out John without Country, from France"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"28",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1253",
+            "text":"-May 7th) Utrecht destroyed by fire"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"28",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1253",
+            "text":"Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Nam Myoho Renge Kyo for the first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"28",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1376",
+            "text":"English parliament demands supervision on royal outlay"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"28",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1503",
+            "text":"Battle at Cerignalo: Spanish army under G Cordoba beats France"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"28",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1521",
+            "text":"Treaty of Worms: Emperor Charles names his brother Ferdinand Arch duke of Netherlands-Austria"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"28",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1550",
+            "text":"Powers of Dutch inquisition extends"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"28",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1611",
+            "text":"Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, the oldest existing university in Asia and the largest Catholic university in the world."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"28",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1635",
+            "text":"Virginia Gov John Harvey accused of treason & removed from office"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"28",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1655",
+            "text":"English admiral Blake beats Tunen pirate fleet"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/4/29.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"29",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1091",
+            "text":"Battle at Monte Levunium: Emperor Alexius I beats Petshegenes"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"29",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1429",
+            "text":"Joan of Arc arrives at the seige of Orleans"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"29",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1522",
+            "text":"Emperor Charles V names Frans van Holly inquisitor-gen of Netherlands"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"29",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1540",
+            "text":"Emperor Charles declares all privileges of Gent ended"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"29",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1550",
+            "text":"Emperor Charles V gives inquisiters additional authority"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"29",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1553",
+            "text":"Flemish woman introduces practice of starching linen into England"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"29",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1587",
+            "text":"Sir Frances Drake sails into Cadiz Spain & sinks Spanish fleet"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"29",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1623",
+            "text":"11 Dutch ships depart for the conquest of Peru"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"29",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1628",
+            "text":"Sweden & Denmark sign defense treaty against Duke of Wallenstein"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"29",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1636",
+            "text":"Prince Frederik Henry occupies Schenkenschans"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"29",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1644",
+            "text":"Farm leader Li Zicheng becomes emperor of China & flees Peking"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"29",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1648",
+            "text":"Beginning of the 18 day battle of Zhovti Vody in Ukraine-Polish King Casimir eventually defeated by Cossacks"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"29",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1661",
+            "text":"Chinese Ming dynasty occupies Taiwan"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"29",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1670",
+            "text":"Pope Clemens X elected"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"29",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1672",
+            "text":"Franco-Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"29",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1701",
+            "text":"Drenthe, Netherlands, adopts Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is May 12, 1701"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/4/3.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"419",
+            "text":"[Etalius] ends his reign as Catholic Pope"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1043",
+            "text":"Edward the Confessor crowned king of England"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1077",
+            "text":"The first Parliament of Friuli is created."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1312",
+            "text":"2nd council of Vienna"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1376",
+            "text":"Battle of Navarrete (Najera), English beat French"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1513",
+            "text":"Explorer Juan Ponce de Leon claims Florida for Spain, 1st known European to reach Florida"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1559",
+            "text":"Spain & France sign 2nd Treaty of Le Cateau-Cambrésis"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1582",
+            "text":"French van Valois honored as duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1645",
+            "text":"English Long Parliament passes the Self-Denying Ordinance, limiting regional armies, significant step toward New Model Army"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1657",
+            "text":"English Lord Protector Cromwell refuses crown"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1679",
+            "text":"Edmund Halley meets Johannes Hevelius in Danzig"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1764",
+            "text":"Austrian Archduke Jozef crowned himself Holy Roman Emperor Josef II"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1776",
+            "text":"George Washington receives honorary Ll.D. degree from Harvard College"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/4/30.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"311",
+            "text":"Roman Emperor Galerius isssues Edict of Toleration, ending persercution of Christians in the Roman Empire"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"313",
+            "text":"Licinius unifies the entire Eastern Roman Empire under his rule."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"711",
+            "text":"Islamic conquest of Iberia: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus)."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1064",
+            "text":"German King Henry IV gives away Utrecht county of West Friesland"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1315",
+            "text":"Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged on the public gallows at Montfaucon."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1349",
+            "text":"Jewish community at Radolszell, Germany, exterminated"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1396",
+            "text":"Crusaders & Earl of Nevers depart from Dijon"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1483",
+            "text":"Orbital calculations suggest that on this day, Pluto moved inside Neptune's orbit until July 23, 1503."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1492",
+            "text":"Columbus is given royal commission to equip his fleet"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1492",
+            "text":"Spain announces it will expels all Jews"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1506",
+            "text":"Philip of Burgundy & England sign trade agreement"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1527",
+            "text":"England & France sign Treaty of Westminster to end the War of the League of Cognac"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1562",
+            "text":"1st French colonists in North America: Jean Ribault & colonists arrive in Florida"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/4/4.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1081",
+            "text":"Alexius I Comnenus occupies Byzantine throne"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1460",
+            "text":"University of Basle in Swizerland forms"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1541",
+            "text":"Ignatius of Loyola becomes 1st superior-general of Jesuits"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1552",
+            "text":"Mauritius van Saksen begins alliance with Karel Anikita Stroganov"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1558",
+            "text":"Tsar Ivan IV gives parts of North-Russia to fur traders"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1581",
+            "text":"Francis Drake knighted by Queen Elizabeth I aboard Golden Hind at Deptford"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1588",
+            "text":"Christian IV succeeds Frederik II as king of Denmark"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1655",
+            "text":"Battle at Postage Farina, Tunis: English fleet beats Barbary pirates"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1655",
+            "text":"The miraculous statue entitled the Infant of Prague is solemnly crowned by command of Cardinal Harrach."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1660",
+            "text":"English king Charles II sends Declaration of Breda (freedom of religion)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1686",
+            "text":"English king James II publishes Declaration of Indulgence"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1687",
+            "text":"King James II orders his declaration of indulgence read in English churches"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1716",
+            "text":"Russian & Prussian troops occupy Wismar"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1737",
+            "text":"Anthony van Heim installed as Dutch pension advisor"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/4/5.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"456",
+            "text":"St. Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary bishop."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"823",
+            "text":"Pope Peschalis I crowns Lotharius I, co-emperor of France"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1058",
+            "text":"Bishop John \"Minchio\" [domkop] elected as Pope Benedictus X"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1242",
+            "text":"Alexander Nevsky of Novgorod defeats Teutonic Knights in the Battle of the Ice"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1566",
+            "text":"200 Brussel nobles offer Margaretha of Parma a petition"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1585",
+            "text":"Clemens Crabbeels becomes bishop of Hertogenbosch"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1603",
+            "text":"New English King James I (James VI of Scotland) departs Edinburgh for London"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1609",
+            "text":"Daimyo (Lord) of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1614",
+            "text":"2nd parliament of King James I begin session (no enactments)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1621",
+            "text":"Mayflower sails from Plymouth on a return trip to England"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1648",
+            "text":"Spanish troops/feudal barons strike down people's uprising in Naples"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1722",
+            "text":"Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1739",
+            "text":"French emperor Karel VI sign secret treaty"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1751",
+            "text":"Adolf Frederik of Holstein-Gottorp crowns himself king of Sweden"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]