An onomastic calendar: February

• February 1: Edward III was crowned king of England in 1327.
• February 2: Bona Sforza, queen consort of Poland, was born in 1494.
• February 3: Douce of Provence married Ramon Berenguer in 1112.
• February 4: Hrabanus Maurus died in 856.
• February 5: Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss writer and historian, was born in 1505.
• February 6: Dunnchad mac Domnaill, king of Mide, died in 797.
• February 7: Pandulf IV of Benevento died in 1074.
• February 8: Mary Queen of Scots was executed for treason in 1587.
• February 9: Agnes Sorel, mistress of Charles VII, died in 1450.
• February 10: Robert the Bruce murdered John Comyn in 1306.
• February 11: Elizabeth of York, queen consort of England, was born in 1466.
• February 12: Charles the Fat was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 881.
• February 13: Catherine Howard was executed for treason in 1542.
• February 14: The feast day of Saint Valentine.
• February 15: Pope Pascal II established the Knights Hospitallers in 1113.
• February 16: German philosopher Philipp Melancthon was born in 1497.
• February 17: Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, was born in 1490.
• February 18: Mary I of England was born in 1516.
• February 19: Nicolaus Copernicus was born in 1473.
• February 20: Edward VI was crowned king of England.
• February 21: James I of Scotland was assassinated in 1437.
• February 22: Robert II of Scotland became king in 1371.
• February 23: Justinian I orders the building of the Hagia Sophia.
• February 24: Pope Gregory XIII introduced the Gregorian calendar in 1582.
• February 25: Theodoric the Great negotiated for peace with Odoacer in 493.
• February 26: Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia was born in 1361.
• February 27: Henry IV was crowned king of France in 1594.
• February 28: Pope Saint Hilarius died in 468.
• February 29: Oswald, Archbishop of York, died in 992.

An onomastic calendar: November

Here’s the full monthly calendar of our #OnThisDay posts on twitter:

• November 1: Empress Mathilda was deposed as Lady of the English in 1141.
• November 2: Emma of France died in 934.
• November 3: Benvenuto Celllini, Italian artist, was born in 1500.
• November 4: Sophia of Bavaria, queen consort of the Romans and Bohemia, died in 1428.
• November 5: The feast day of St. Felix of Valois.
• November 6: Juana la Loca was born in 1479.
• November 7: Constans II was born in 630.
• November 8: Julian of Norwich was born in 1342.
• November 9: Sancha of Castille died in 1208.
• November 10: Bridget of York was born in 1480.
• November 11: Mathilda of Scotland was crowned queen of England in 1100.
• November 12: Cnut the Dane died in 1035.
• November 13: St. Augustine of Hippo was born in 354.
• November 14: Maurice, prince of Orange, was born in 1567.
• November 15: Justin II becomes emperor of Byzantium in 565.
• November 16: Edward I becomes king of England in 1272.
• November 17: Elizabeth I becomes queen of England in 1558.
• November 18: Antipope Sylvester IV was enthroned in 11015.
• November 19: Pope Anastasius II died in 498.
• November 20: Edmund the Martyr dies in 869 (or 870).
• November 21: García, king of Navarre, died in 1150.
• November 22: Erik V of Denmark died in 1286
• November 23: Ferdinand III conquered Seville in 1248
• November 24: Joan of Arc beseiged La Charite in 1429.
• November 25: Malcolm II of Scotland died in 1034.
• November 26: Infanta Catarina of Portugal was born in 1436.
• November 27: Byzantine Emperor Maurice died in 602.
• November 28: Pope Gregory III died in 741.
• November 29: Joachim Viadan, Swiss Humanist, was born in 1484.
• November 30: Saint Gregory of Tours was born c538.

An onomastic calendar: October

• October 1: Edgar I was crowned King of the English in 959.
• October 2: Athalaric, king of the Ostrogoths, died in 543.
• October 3: Saint Francis of Assisi died in 1226.
• October 4: Saint Theresa of Avila died in 1582
• October 5: Alexios III of Trebizond was born in 1338.
• October 6: Samuel Tsar of Bulgaria died in 1014.
• October 7: Frederick I of Norway and Denmark was born in 1471.
• October 8: Demetrius Zvonimir was crowned king of Croatia in 1076.
• October 9: Denis, the Poet King of Portugal, was born in 1261.
• October 10: Pope Valentine died in 827.
• October 11: Pope Boniface died in 1303.
• October 12: Edwin King of Northumbria was killed in battle in 632/633.
• October 13: Eleanor, Queen of Castile, was born in 1162.
• October 14: William the Bastard won the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
• October 15: Pope Gregory XIII’s calendrical reform came into use in 1582.
• October 16: Jadwiga was crowned King of Poland in 1384.
• October 17: St. Ivo of Kermartin was born in 1253.
• October 18: Dagobert I was crowned king of the Franks in 629.
• October 19: St. Frideswide died in 727.
• October 20: Henry X of Bavaria died in 1139.
• October 21: Ferdinand Magellan discovered the Straits of Magellan in 1520.
• October 22: Charles Martel, king of the Franks, died in 741.
• October 23: Sweyn III of Denmark is killed in 1157.
• October 24: (DMNES team was out of town w/o internet access).
• October 25: Henry V of England defeated the French at Agincourt in 1415.
• October 26: Feast day of St Demetrius of Thessaloniki, who died in 306.
• October 27: Emperor Constantine had his Vision of the Cross in 312.
• October 28: Margaret I of Denmark died in 1412.
• October 29: Conradin, king of Sicily and Jerusalem, died in 1268.
• October 30: Cesare Borgia hosted the Banquet of Chestnuts in 1501.
• October 31: Nikephoros I became Byzantine emperor in 802.