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In 1742 English astronomer, mathematician and physicist Edmond Halley dies. He devoted his work primarily to the study of comets. The Halley's Comet is named after him.
In 1458 Matthias Corvinus is proclaimed King of Bohemia and Hungary. In the legend he was known as King Matthias. In 1776 the German composer Wilhelm Amadeus Hoffmann is born.
In 1646 the French architect Jules Hardouin Mansart is born. He became the superindent of all royal buildings and that included the Palace of Versailles. The mansard was designed and named after him.
In 1775 the French physicist and mathematician Andre-Marie Ampere is born. The unit for the measurement of electric current, ampere is named after him.
In 1793 in Paris under the guillotine Louis XVI was executed. He was King of France from 1774 to 1792. In 1905 fashion designer Christian Dior is born.
In 1885 L. A. Thompson patents the toboggan. In 1920 Italian film director Federico Fellini is born. In 1945 on the liberated territory of Cerkno the first partisan ski races were organised.
In 1736 Scottish engineer James Watt, inventor of the first steam engine, is born. In 1809 American poet, author, representative of American Romantic Movement Edgar Allan Poe is born.
In 1778 during one of his many voyages James Cook discovered Hawaii, which one hundred and twenty years later annexed to the USA. In 1892 American film actor Oliver Hardy is born.
In 1706 in Boston the American scientist, writer and civic activist for the independence of the USA, Benjamin Franklin is born. He made the first lightening conductor and condenser.
In 1601 during the Counter-Reformation the Ljubljana Bishop Tomaž Hren and provincial governor Jurij Lenkovič called on all the people of Ljubljana who adopted the Lutheran faith and told them that ...
In 1622 French playwright and actor Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere is born. Among his best-known works are The Miser, The Imaginary Invalid, and The Bourgeois Gentleman.
In 1235 Sava Nemanjić, whose translations of ecclesiastical literature into the Serbian language paved the way for development of the Serbian literary language, dies.
In 1610 Galileo Galilei discovered the four largest satellites of Jupiter. In 1930 the hero of cartoon films Mickey Mouse appears for the first time in a comic strip.
In 1876 American writer Jack London is born. His real name is John Griffith. Many of his stories were based on his own experiences as a tramp, sailor and gold digger.
In 1569 first recorded lottery in England is drawn in St Paul's Cathedral. In 1922 insulin is used for the first time in the treatment of diabetes. In 1928 English poet and writer Thomas Hardy dies.
In the year 1815 the French naturalist and doctor Balthasar Hacquet, who from 1778 to 1789 explored our region and was the first to write Slovenian place names.
In 1856 Slovene poet and Roman Catholic priest Anton Askerc is born in Globoko near Rimske toplice.
In 1324 famous Italian traveller Marco Polo, Venetian merchant, who from 1271 to 1292 travelled through Asia and China, dies.
In 1893 Slovenian physicist Jožef Štefan dies in Vienna. He discovered the physical law on heat radiation, with the help of which he defined the temperature of the Sun.
In 1412 Joan of Arc, a French heroine is born into a peasant family. In 1429, with the help of 800 people, she drives the English away. In 1745 Etienne-Jacques De Montgolfier is born.
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