The ephemeris of Wednesday, 7 January 2009

The ephemeris of Wednesday, 7 January 2009

On the morning of 7 January 1477, the Battle of Nancy is over the past two days and there is still no news of the Duke of Burgundy. A young Italian soldier says he saw fall near a pond. There are in fact at this point a group of corpses stripped of their weapons and their clothes. One of them is already half eaten by wolves. Halberd disfigured by a Swiss soldier and finished two strokes launches, the Grand Duke of the West is no more. This death, according to all witnesses, he probably sought because he had never been any illusions about the outcome of the battle, his army was decimated, its allies ready to betray him, l European coalition against him ... Charles the Bold was the last male representative of the branch of Valois-Burgundy, which began more than a century ago with the assignment by King John II of France of the duchy of Burgundy in one of his son, Philip the Bold . He and his heirs had accumulated an impressive number of principalities to form a vast territory but discontinuous, between France and the Holy Roman Empire. Lorraine was necessary to Charles the Bold to gather all Burgundy-Franche-Comté that formed by the Picardie and the current Benelux. Despite this setback, the Bold has been able to make a successful exit: the Duke of Lorraine will bring to his city with all the honors. And if Louis XI had cleared a formidable enemy, it had not secured the borders of the kingdom, as the House of Austria would inherit many of the possessions of the Bold ...

This has also entered into a January 7:

2000 - The 17th Karmapa, the "living Buddha", fled Tibet to win the India.

1989 - Death of the Emperor of Japan Hirohito.

1979 - The government is toppled Pol Pot in Cambodia by forces supported by Vietnam.

1972 - India establishes diplomatic relations with China.

1957 - Start of the Battle of Algiers "The government gives the Mollet General Massu full police powers on the big Algiers, hit by attacks since September 1956.

1953 - President Harry Truman reveals that the United States have the hydrogen bomb.

1946 - Austria is recognized by Western powers in its 1936 borders.

1896 - Death of French poet Paul Verlaine.

1807 - Britain decides to blockade the coast of France and the allies of Napoleon.

1610 - The astronomer Gallilée discovered satellites of Jupiter Callisto, Europe, Ganymede and Io.

1598 - Boris Godunov was elected Tsar of Russia on the death of Fyodor Ier.

They are born on January 7:

- Pope Gregory XIII (Ugo Buoncompagni) (1502-1585)

- Saint Bernadette Soubirous, French shepherdess (1844-1879)

- Charles Peguy, French writer (1873-1914)

- The American actor Nicolas Cage (1964). AP

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