This Day in History
21 Jan 1287
The treaty of San Agayz is signed. Minorca is conquered by King Alfons III of Aragon.
21 Jan 1324
Zen Buddhist religious debate between Tendai & Shingon
21 Jan 1522
Head inquisitor Adrian Florisz Boeyens elected pope
21 Jan 1525
The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is born when Conrad Grebel Felix Manz George Blaurock and a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manzs mother in Zrich breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union
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King Louis XVI executed
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Concorde takes off
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Gun designer John Browning is born
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