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2013 Event - The Soyuz capsule safely lands in Kazakhstan, carrying Expedition 35 astronauts Thomas Marshburn of the U.S., Chris Hadfield of Canada and Roman Romanenko of Russia back from the International Space Station 2013 Event - Alfred Xuereb, an Honorary Prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, is selected by Pope Francis' to become his first private secretary 2013 Event - In Rome, Italy, Roman Catholic Cardinals meet in a conclave to appoint a successor to Pope Benedict XVI 2012 Event - Russian spacecraft, Soyuz TMA-07M, is launched in Kazakhstan, with cosmonauts Roman Romanenko, Chris Hadfield and Thomas Marshburn for the ISS Expedition 34 and 35 crews 2011 Event - Pope Benedict XVI announces Roman Catholic bishops must obey a papal order allowing priests to say the old-style Tridentine Mass 2010 Event - A construction site in London reveals a Roman settlement filled with ancient artifacts and human remains 1999 Death - Ruth Roman, actress, dies at 75 1996 Death - Margaret Rawlings, actress (Roman Holiday), dies at 89 1996 Death - Roman Ciesiewicz, artist/graphic designer, dies at 65 1994 Event - Roman Herzog sworn in as German president 1994 Event - Roman Herzog elected president of Germany 1993 Death - Audrey Hepburn, actress (Roman Holiday), dies of colon cancer at 63 1992 Event - Roman Catholic church reinstates Galileo Galilei after 359 years 1991 Death - Paul Reid Roman, actor (Aviator, Blue Knight), dies of cancer at 55 1991 Event - Houston's Roman Anderson is 1st NCAA to kick 400 pts 1989 Event - Roman Polanski marries actress Emmanuelle Seigner 1987 Birthday - Michael Roman, actor, Al-One Life to Live 1978 Event - Director Roman Polanski skips bail and fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl 1977 Event - Joseph L Howze installed as bishop of Roman Catholic diocese (Miss) 1975 Birthday - Lauren E Roman, Wilmington, North Carolina, actress, Laura Kirk-All My Children 1975 Event - James A. Healy, 1st black Roman Catholic bishop, consecrated (Maine) 1974 Birthday - Colin Daynes, Windsor, Ontario, 68 kg Greco Roman wrestler 1996 Olympics 1974 Birthday - Roman Hamrlik, born in Gottwaldov, Czechoslovakia, NHL defenseman, Lightning, Gold Medal 1998 Olympics 1973 Event - George Foreman KOs Jose "King" Roman in 1 for heavyweight boxing title 1973 Event - 1st heavyweight championship fight in Japan (Foreman beats Roman) 1972 Birthday - Roman Oben, tackle for the New York Giants 1971 Birthday - Ainsley Robinson, Oshawa Ontario, 62 kg Greco Roman wrestler 1996 Olympics 1971 Birthday - Colbie Bell, born in Edmonton, Alberta, 100kg Greco Roman wrestler 1996 Olympics 1971 Death - Tullio Carminati, actor (Roman Holiday, Moulin Rouge), dies at 76 1971 Birthday - Roman Cechmanek, NHL goaltender, Team Czechoslovakia, Gold Medal 1998 Olympics 1970 Death - Roman Ingarden, Polish philosopher (Studia philosophica), dies at 77 1970 Birthday - Roman Kontsek, hockey forward, Team Slovakia 1998 1970 Birthday - Roman Turek, Strakonice, Czech Republic, hockey goalie, Team Czech Republic, 1998 Olympics 1970 Event - Holy Eucharist given by women for 1st time in Roman Catholic service 1970 Birthday - Yogi Johl, Vancouver BC, 130 kg Greco Roman wrestler 1996 Olympics 1968 Event - "Her First Roman" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City after 17 performances 1968 Event - "Her 1st Roman" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City for 17 performances 1968 Birthday - Roman Phifer, linebacker for the St. Louis Rams 1967 Birthday - Roman Fortin, NFL center for the Atlanta Falcons 1966 Event - Harold R Perry becomes 2nd black Roman Catholic bishop in US 1964 Event - Roman Catholic Church in U.S. replaces Latin with English 1964 Event - Vatican abolished Latin as official language of Roman Catholic liturgy 1959 Event - Vatican edict forbids Roman Catholics for voting for communists 1957 Death - Fritz Schulz, German law historian (Classical Roman Law), dies at 78 1957 Birthday - Doug Cox, Guelph Ontario, 90 kg Greco Roman wrestler 1996 Olympics 1952 Birthday - Roman Codreanu, Romania, wrestler, Olympic-1980 1944 Death - Roman Padlewski, composer, dies at 28 1943 Death - Robin G Collingwood, English philosopher (Roman Britain), dies at 53 1941 Birthday - Roman Balayan, born in Nerke, Azerbaijan, director, Filer, Biryuk 1934 Birthday - Roman A Gulyayev, cosmonaut 1933 Birthday - Roman Polanski, born in Paris, France, director, Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown 1933 Birthday - Roman Polanski, Poland, director, Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, Pirates 1931 Death - Xu Zhimo, Roman Poet 1930 Birthday - Roman Semyonovich Ledenyou, composer 1930 Birthday - Roman Ciesiewicz, artist/graphic designer 1928 Event - Turkey switches from Arabic to Roman alphabet 1927 Birthday - Patrick Allen, Malawi, actor, Roman Holiday, Dial "M" for Murder 1925 Death - Roman Statkowski, composer, dies at 65 1925 Birthday - Thomas Winning, Roman Catholic archbishop, Glasgow 1923 Birthday - Ruth Roman, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actress, Sylvia-Knots Landing, Dallas 1922 Birthday - Gerald Moverley, Roman Catholic bishop, Hallam 1921 Death - Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Russian baron/general, dies 1920 Birthday - John J "Cardinal" O'Connor, Philadelphia, Roman Catholic Archbishop of NY 1919 Birthday - Roman Vlad, composer 1919 Event - Pope Benedictus XV states Roman Catholics political/business views 1919 Birthday - Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, composer 1918 Birthday - John Paul II, Karol Wojtyla, 264th Roman Catholic pope, 1978- 1915 Birthday - Roman Padlewski, composer 1913 Birthday - Claude Simon, born in Antananarivo, Madagascar, writer, prize-winning author, 1985 Nobel Laureate in Literature, identified with the nouveau roman movement 1912 Birthday - John Paul I, Albino Luciano, 263rd Roman Catholic pope, 1978 1912 Death - Felix Dahn, writer, wrote 'Prehistory of the Germanic and Roman Peoples', dies at 77 1910 Birthday - Roman Maciejewski, composer 1907 Birthday - Roman Palester, Polish composer: The Weichsel 1907 Death - Anton G van Hamel, founder (Roman philosphy in Netherlands), dies at 65 1906 Birthday - Margaret Rawlings, actress, Roman Holiday 1906 Birthday - Roman Brandstaetter, writer 1900 Death - James Augustine Healy, black Roman Catholic bishop, dies at 80 1899 Birthday - Carel C van Essen, Dutch archaeologist, Italian and Roman art 1897 Birthday - Pope Paul VI, Giovanni Montini, 262nd Roman Catholic pope, 1963-78 1896 Birthday - Ruth Etting, U.S. dancer/singer/actress, Roman scandals 1896 Birthday - Roman Jakobson, linguist/Slavic scholar, Fundamentals of Language 1895 Event - Belgium begins compulsory Roman Catholic education 1895 Birthday - Marie-Dominique Chenu, French Roman Catholic theologist 1894 Event - Roman Catholics win Parliamentary election in Belgium 1894 Birthday - Tullio Carminati, Zara Dalmatia Italy, actor, Roman Holiday 1893 Birthday - Roman Ingarden, Polish philosopher, Studia philosophica 1893 Birthday - Xu Zhimo, Roman Poet 1892 Birthday - Grigore Gafencu, Roman minister of Foreign affairs, 1938-39 1889 Event - Chaplain Ariens founds 1st roman catholic workers group 1889 Birthday - Robin G Collingwood, English philosopher, Roman Britain 1870 Birthday - Harry Lauder, born in Scotland, comedian/singer, Roman in the Gloamin 1869 Event - 20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican I, opens in Rome 1868 Death - Roman Nose (Wiquini), Cheyenne indian leader, dies 1864 Birthday - Pietro Bonfante, Italian lawyer, Roman law 1859 Birthday - Roman Statkowski, composer 1850 Event - Papal Bull issued, establishes Roman Catholic hierarchy in England 1849 Event - Roman Republic declared 1842 Birthday - Anton G van Hamel, founder, Roman Philology in Netherlands 1835 Birthday - Pius X, Giuseppe Sarto, 257th Roman Catholic pope, 1903-14 1834 Birthday - Felix Dahn, born in Hamburg, Germany, writer, wrote 'Prehistory of the Germanic and Roman Peoples' 1830 Birthday - James Augustine Healy, born in Macon, Georgia, 1st black Roman Catholic bishop 1824 Birthday - Sydney Thompson Dobell, poet, Roman 1815 Death - Roman Hoffstetter, composer, dies at 73 1810 Birthday - Leo XIII, 257th Roman Catholic pope, 1878-1903 1793 Event - Father Stephen Theodore Badin is 1st U.S. Roman Catholic priest ordained 1790 Death - Joseph II, Emperor of Holy Roman empire, dies at 48 1776 Event - 1st volume of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of Roman Empire" published 1768 Birthday - Francis II, Florence Italy, last Holy Roman emperor, 1792-1806 1764 Event - Austrian arch duke Jozef crowned himself Roman Catholic king 1758 Death - Johan Helmich Roman, Finnish composer/violist, dies at 64 1758 Death - Johan H Roman, Finnish/Swedish composer and conductor /violinist, dies 1743 Death - Cornelis van Bijnkershoek, Dutch lawyer (Roman law), dies at 69 1742 Birthday - Roman Hoffstetter, composer 1739 Event - Turks defeats Holy Roman Emp at Crocyka Yugoslavia and threaten Belgrade 1737 Birthday - Edward Gibbon, England, historian, Decline and Fall of Roman Empire 1737 Birthday - Edward Gibson, England, historian, Decline and Fall of Roman Emp 1719 Event - Principality of Liechtenstein created within Holy Roman Empire 1714 Event - Treaty of Baden: Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI and France, ends War of Spanish Succession, French retain Alsace, Austria gets bank of Rhine 1711 Event - Karel VI Habsburg crowned Roman Catholic emperor 1708 Birthday - Francis I, Holy Roman emperor, 1745-1765 1705 Death - Leopold I von Hapsburg, Emperor of Holy Roman Empire, dies at 64 1697 Birthday - Charles VII, Holy Roman emperor, 1742-45 1694 Birthday - Johan Helmich Roman, Finnish/Swedish composer and conductor /violinist 1690 Event - Army of England's Protestant King William III defeats Roman Catholic King James II in Battle of Boyne in Ireland 1690 Event - Emperor Leopold's son Jozef chosen Roman Catholic king 1678 Event - Roman Catholics banned from English parliament 1678 Birthday - Joseph I Habsburg, German king/Roman catholic emperor, 1705-11 1674 Death - Thomas Traherne, English poet/mystic (Roman Forgeries), dies 1670 Event - Roman Catholic emperor Leopold I chases Jews out of Vienna 1660 Death - Paul Scarron, French, stagewriter (Le Roman Comique), dies at 50 1648 Event - Treaty of Westphalia ends 30 year war and Holy Roman Empire 1640 Birthday - Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1658-1705 1637 Event - Ferdinand III succeeds Ferdinand II as Holy Roman Emperor 1619 Event - Ferdinand II elected Holy Roman Emperor 1619 Death - Matthias II, Holy Roman Catholic emperor (1611-19), dies 1593 Event - France's Protestant King Henri IV converts to Roman Catholic 1585 Birthday - Cornelius Otto Jansen, France, Roman Catholic reform leader 1585 Event - Amsterdam bans 45 roman catholics 1584 Event - Last day of the Julian calendar in Bohemia and Holy Roman empire 1581 Death - Huibert Duifhuis, Roman Catholic pastor (Rotterdam/Utrecht), dies 1580 Event - French Huguenots and Roman Catholics sign peace treaty 1575 Event - French Roman Catholics and Huguenots signs treaty 1568 Event - Holy Roman Emperor agrees to pay tribute to the Sultan for peace 1558 Death - Charles V, King of Spain (Carlos I)/Holy Roman Emperor, dies at 58 1558 Event - Ferdinand I appointed Holy Roman emperor 1557 Birthday - Matthias, Vienna, Holy Roman emperor, 1612-19 1535 Birthday - Gregory XIV, Niccolo Sfondrati, Roman Catholic pope, 1590-91 1521 Event - Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church 1519 Event - King Carlos I elected Roman Catholic German emperor Charles V 1515 Event - Congress of Vienna settles issues between Poland and Holy Roman Empire 1508 Event - Maximilian I crowned Holy Roman Emperor 1500 Birthday - Carlos V, King of Spain, 1516-56, Holy Roman Emperor 1493 Event - Maximilian I of Austria becomes Roman Catholic German emperor 1488 Event - Roman catholic German emperor Maximilian I caught in Belgium 1477 Event - Maximilian I, son of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III, weds Mary of 1452 Event - Frederick III of Hapsburg crowned Roman German Emperor 1410 Death - Ruprecht, Roman catholics German king, dies 1368 Birthday - Sigismund, Nurnberg Germany, Holy Roman emperor, 1410-37 1361 Birthday - Wenceslas of Bohemia, Holy Roman Catholic German emperor, 1378-1400 1352 Birthday - Ruprecht, Roman catholic German king 1347 Event - Pope Clemens VI declares Roman tribunal Coke di Rienzo as heretics 1347 Event - Roman tribunal Coke di Rienzo beats nobles 1347 Death - Stefano Colonna, Roman senator, dies in battle 1330 Event - Constantinople (Istanbul) becomes new capital by Roman Emperor Constantine for Eastern Roman Empire 1313 Death - Henry VII, Roman Catholic German King/emperor (1308/12-13), dies 1312 Event - Roman Catholics German King Henry VII crowned 1298 Event - Albert I, son of Rudolf of Habsburg, crowned Holy Roman Emperor 1298 Event - Roman Catholics German King Albrecht I von Habsburg installed 1298 Event - Duke Albrecht von Habsburg chosen Roman Catholic German king 1291 Death - Rudolf I, King of Germany and Holy Roman Empire, dies 1283 Birthday - Ludwig IV of Baveria, Roman Catholic Bavarian emperor, 1314 - 1347 1273 Event - Earl Rudolf van Habsburg becomes Roman Catholics-German king 1247 Event - Willem II of Holland elected Roman Catholic German emperor 1242 Death - Hendrik VII, Roman Catholics German king (1220-35), commits suicide 1228 Birthday - Koenraad IV, Roman Catholic German king, 1237-54 1215 Event - Frederik II crowns himself Roman Catholic king 1212 Event - Frederik II crowns himself Roman Catholic king 1211 Birthday - Henry VII, Roman catholic German king, 1220-35 1210 Event - Pope Innocent III excommunicates Roman Catholic Emperor Otto IV 1198 Event - Philips van Zwaben Hohenstaufen crowned king of Roman Catholic Germany 1197 Death - Henry VI von Hohenstaufen, Roman Catholic German King (1169-97), dies 1178 Event - Frederick I (Barbarossa), Holy Roman Emperor, crowned King of Burgundy 1125 Death - Hendrik V, Roman catholics German king/emperor (1098/1111-25), dies 1118 Event - Pope Gelasius II excommunicated Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor 1111 Event - Pope Paschalis II crowns Roman catholics-German king Hendrik II 1111 Event - Pope Paschalis II crowns Henry V, Roman emperor 1106 Death - Henry IV, Roman German king/emperor (1056/84-1105), dies at 54 1081 Birthday - Henry V, Roman German king/emperor, 1098/1111-25 1027 Event - John XIX crowns Conrad II the Salier Roman German emperor 1017 Birthday - Henry III, Roman Catholic German emperor, 1046 - 1056 1014 Event - Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry II, Roman German emperor 996 Event - Pope Gregory V crowns Otto III Roman Catholic German emperor of Elzas 973 Death - Otto I the Great, Holy Roman Emperor (962-973), dies at 60 973 Birthday - Henry II, Roman Catholic German king/emperor, 1002/14-24 912 Birthday - Otto I, the Great, German king, Holy Roman emperor, 962-73 905 Event - Holy Roman Catholic emperor Louis III captured 888 Death - Charles III, the Fat One, King of Franconia/Roman emperor, dies 877 Death - Charles II the Kale, King of France/Roman emperor (875-77), dies at 54 814 Death - Charlemagne, German emperor/Roman Emperor (800-814), dies at 71 800 Event - Pope Leo III crowns Charles the Great (Charlemagne), Roman emperor 742 Birthday - Charlemagne, 1st Holy Roman emperor, 800-14 476 Event - Romulus Augustulus, last Roman emperor in west, is deposed 476 Event - West Roman Empire formally disbands/emperor Romulus August ousted 472 Birthday - Flavius Ricimer, general of the Western Roman Empire, kingmaker 455 Event - Roman senator Petronius Maximus becomes Emperor 439 Death - Melania the Younger, Roman monastery founder/saint, dies at about 56 423 Death - Flavius Honorius, emperor East Roman Republic (395-423), dies 421 Event - Flavius Constantine becomes emperor Constantine III of West Roman emp 419 Birthday - Valentinian III, Roman emperor, 425-55 418 Event - Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire 410 Event - Rome overrun by Visigoths, symbolized fall of Western Roman Empire 408 Death - Flavius Stilicho, West Roman field leader (395-408), dies at 48 406 Event - Battle at Florence: Stilicho's Roman army beats Radagaisus' Barbarians 404 Death - Telemachus, Roman monk, murdered 402 Event - Battle at Pollentia: Roman army under Stilicho beats Visigoten 401 Birthday - Theodosius II, the Younger, Eastern Roman emperor 397 Death - Martinus, (St. Maarten), Roman bishop of Tours, dies at about 81 390 Event - Roman emperor Theodosius admits debt on mass murder in Thessalonica 388 Death - Magnus Maximus, Spanish West Roman Emperor (383-88), executed 384 Birthday - Flavius Honorius, emperor East Roman Republic, 395-423 379 Event - Theodosius installed as co-emperor of East Roman Empire 378 Event - Battle of Adrianople, Visigoth Calvary defeats Roman Army 375 Death - Valentinianus I, co-emperor of E Roman Empire (336-75), dies at 54 354 Birthday - [Christian] Aurelius Augustine, bp of Hippo in Roman Africa 350 Event - General Maxentius drives out Western Roman emperor Constans 330 Event - Constantinople (Byzantium) becomes capital of Roman Empire 313 Event - Start of Roman (Pontifical) Indiction 311 Event - Emperor Galerius legal recognizes Christians in the Roman Empire 303 Event - 1st official Roman edict for persecution of Christians issued 290 Death - [Christian] Sergius, roman soldier/martyred saint, decapitated 290 Death - [Christian] Bacchus, roman soldier/martyred saint, killed 274 Birthday - Constantine I, Great Roman emperor, 306-337, adopted Christianity 238 Death - Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus, the Thracian, Roman Emperor, murdered 217 Death - Caracalla, Marcus Antoniius, Roman emperor (198-217), murdered at 29 197 Death - D Clodius Septimus Albinus, Roman bequest in England, dies in battle 193 Death - Publius Helvius Pertinax, Roman Emperor (192-93), assassinated 188 Birthday - Caracalla, Marcus Aureiius Antoniius, Roman emperor, 211-17 138 Death - Publius A Hadrianus, Roman emperor (117-138), dies 126 Birthday - Publius Helvius Pertinax, Roman emperor, 193 AD 96 Death - Domitian, Roman emperor, dies 86 Birthday - Antoninus Pius, 15th Roman emperor, 138-161 79 Death - Gaius Plinius Secundus, Plinius Maior, Roman admiral/writer, dies 76 Birthday - Hadrian, Roman Emperor, builder of Hadrian's Wall 76 Birthday - Publius A. Hadrianus, 14th Roman Emperor, 117-138 70 Birthday - Publius Vergilius Maro, Roman leader/poet, Bucolica, Aeneis 70 Event - Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem 70 Event - Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem 69 Death - Aulus Vitellius, Roman commandant of Rhine and 7th emperor, murdered 69 Event - Roman emperor Galba adopts Marcus Piso Licinianus as Caesar 69 Event - Roman Lower Rhine army proclaims its commander, Vitellius, emperor 69 Event - Roman garrison of Mainz uprising 68 Death - Claudius Nero, Roman emperor (54-68), commits suicide at 31 54 Death - Claudius, Roman Emperor, dies of poison mushrooms at 63 53 Birthday - Mark U Trajanus, 13th Roman emperor, 98-117, conqueror of Ctesiphon 41 Death - Caligula, G C Germanicus, Roman emperor (37-41), assassinated at 28 40 Birthday - Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general; conquered Wales, No England 39 Birthday - Titus, 10th Roman emperor, 79-81, conqueror of Jerusalem 37 Death - Tiberius Claudius Nero, Roman emperor (14-37), dies at 78 31 Death - Sejanus, Roman head of praetorisch guard, executed 19 Death - Julius Caesar Germanicus, Roman commandant of Rijnleger, dies at 33 17 Death - Publius Ovidius Naso, Roman poet, dies 15 Birthday - Julius Caesar Germanicus, Roman commandant 12 Birthday - Caligula, Gaius Caesar, 3rd Roman emperor, 37-41 AD 9 Death - Publius Quinctilius Varus, Roman viceroy of Syria, suicide at 59 |
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