facts_by_date 1.0.0

data/data/1/4.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"46 BC ",
+            "text":"Titus Labienus defeats Julius Caesar in the Battle of Ruspina."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"274 ",
+            "text":"St Eutychian begins his reign as Catholic Pope"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"871 ",
+            "text":"Battle at Reading: Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1357 ",
+            "text":"Flemish earl Louis & Luxembourg Duke Wenceslaus sign peace treaty"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1490 ",
+            "text":"Anna of Brittany announces that all those who would ally with the king of France will be considered guilty of the crime of lese-majesty."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1519 ",
+            "text":"-6] 1st Altenburger sermon (Luther & Karl von Miltitz)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1570 ",
+            "text":"Spanish viceroy Alva banishes Zutphen City's only physician, Joost Sweiter, \"because he is a Jew\""
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1642 ",
+            "text":"King Charles I with 400 soldiers attacks the English parliament"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1698 ",
+            "text":"Most of the Palace of Whitehall in London, the main residence of the English monarchs, is destroyed by fire."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1717 ",
+            "text":"Netherlands, England & France sign Triple Alliance"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1725 ",
+            "text":"Benjamin Franklin arrives in London [OS=Dec 24 1724]"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1754 ",
+            "text":"Columbia University founded, as Kings College (NYC)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1762 ",
+            "text":"England declares war on Spain & Naples"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1780 ",
+            "text":"Snowstorm hit Washington's army at Morristown, NJ"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1781 ",
+            "text":"Andre Méchain discovers M80 (globular cluster in Scorpio)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1832 ",
+            "text":"Insurrection of Trinidad negroes"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/1/5.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1349 ",
+            "text":"Margaretha of Bavaria names her son Willem V Earl of Holland/Zealand"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1438 ",
+            "text":"Pope Eugenius IV deallocated council of Basel to Ferrara"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1463 ",
+            "text":"French poet Francois Villon banished from Paris"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1477 ",
+            "text":"Battle at Nancy, Burgundy vs Switz, 7000 + killed including their leader Charles Duke of Burgundy"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1500 ",
+            "text":"Duke Ludovico Sforza's troops reconquer Milan"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1527 ",
+            "text":"Felix Manz, a leader of the Anabaptist congregation in Zürich, is executed by drowning. (b. 1498)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1554 ",
+            "text":"Great fire in Eindhoven Neth"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1593 ",
+            "text":"William Louis of Nassau becomes governor/viceroy of Drenthe"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1638 ",
+            "text":"Petition in Recife Brazil leads to closing of their 2 synagogues"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1649 ",
+            "text":"Francesco Cavalli's opera \"Giasone\" premieres in Venice"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1675 ",
+            "text":"Battle at Turkheim (Colmar): French army beats Brandenburg"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1709 ",
+            "text":"Sudden extreme cold kills thousands of Europeans"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1717 ",
+            "text":"Prussian King Frederik Willem I buys conscript for nobles"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1719 ",
+            "text":"Britain, Hannover, Saxony-Poland and Austria sign anti-Prussian/Russian pact"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/1/6.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1066 ",
+            "text":"King Harald of England crowned"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1099 ",
+            "text":"Henry V crowned German king"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1205 ",
+            "text":"Philip of Swabia becomes King of the Romans."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1227 ",
+            "text":"Ferrand of Portugal freed from the Louvre"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1352 ",
+            "text":"French King Jean II introduces Order of the Star"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1449 ",
+            "text":"Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI is crowned at Mistra."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1453 ",
+            "text":"Emperor Frederik III becomes archduke of Austria"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1494 ",
+            "text":"The first Mass in the New World is celebrated at La Isabela, Hispaniola."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1497 ",
+            "text":"Jews are expelled from Graz in Styria, Austria"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1579 ",
+            "text":"Artois/Hainault/Dowaai sign pro-Spanish Union of Arras"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1579 ",
+            "text":"The Union of Atrecht is signed."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1605 ",
+            "text":"The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1622 ",
+            "text":"Pope Gregory XV forms Congregatio the Propagande Fide"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1639 ",
+            "text":"Virginia is 1st colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1649 ",
+            "text":"The English Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial for treason and other \"high crimes\""
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/1/7.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"754 ",
+            "text":"Pope Stefanus II arrives in Ponthion"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1325 ",
+            "text":"Afonso IV succeeds Dionysius as King of Portugal"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1558 ",
+            "text":"Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by French"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1566 ",
+            "text":"Antonio \"Michele\" Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1579 ",
+            "text":"England signs an offensive & defensive alliance with Netherland"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1584 ",
+            "text":"Last day of the Julian calendar in Bohemia & Holy Roman empire"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1598 ",
+            "text":"Boris Godunov seizes Russian throne on death of Feodor I"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1601 ",
+            "text":"Robert, Earl of Essex, leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1608 ",
+            "text":"Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1610 ",
+            "text":"Galileo discovers 1st 3 Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa & Ganymede"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1618 ",
+            "text":"Francis Bacon becomes Lord Chancellor of England"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1622 ",
+            "text":"Germany & Transylvania sign Peace of Nikolsburg"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1654 ",
+            "text":"Fire after heavy storm destroys two thirds of De Rijp Netherlands, 1 person dies"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1698 ",
+            "text":"Russian Tsar Peter the Great departs Netherlands for England"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1714 ",
+            "text":"Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1761 ",
+            "text":"Battle at Panipat India: Afghan army beats Mahratten"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/1/8.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"794 ",
+            "text":"Vikings attacked Lindisfarne Island"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"871 ",
+            "text":"Battle of Ashdown: Ethelred of Wessex and his brother Alfred (the Great) beat invading Danish army"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1198 ",
+            "text":"Lotario di Segni elected Pope Innocentius III"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1214 ",
+            "text":"Earl Ferrand of Flanders drops ties with France"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1297 ",
+            "text":"Monaco gains its independence."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1558 ",
+            "text":"French troops under Duc de Guise occupy Calais"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1598 ",
+            "text":"Jews are expelled from Genoa, Italy"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1656 ",
+            "text":"Oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins (Haarlem, Netherlands)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1675 ",
+            "text":"1st American commercial corporation chartered (NY Fishing Co)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1705 ",
+            "text":"George F Handel's 1st opera \"Almira\" premieres in Hamburg"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1716 ",
+            "text":"Dutch gang leader \"Sjako\" arrested"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1734 ",
+            "text":"Premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1745 ",
+            "text":"Britain, Austria, Netherlands & Saxony sign anti-Prussian Quadruple Alliance"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1746 ",
+            "text":"Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Stirling [NS=Jan 19]"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1760 ",
+            "text":"Comet C/1760 A1 (Great comet) approaches within 0.0682 AUs of Earth"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]