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Kirby, R. S. [Hrsg.]; Kirby, R. S. [Bearb.]
Kirby's Wonderful And Eccentric Museum; Or, Magazine Of Remarkable Characters: Including All The Curiosities Of Nature And Art, From The Remotest Period To The Present Time, Drawn from every authentic Source. Illustrated With One Hundred And Twenty-Four Engravings. Chiefly Taken from Rare And Curious Prints Or Original Drawings. Six Volumes (Vol. III.) — London: R.S. Kirby, 1820

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278 REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES ON PARTICULAR DAYS.

guist, and Magazine of Arts, was born and died on- the
11th of June, and also on the same day fought success-
fully at Scanderoon.
Mr. J. Gibbon had a maternal uncle that died on the
3d of March, 1678, which was the anniversary of his
birth; and who many years before foretold, that the day
of his birth would be that of his death.
The 6th of January was five times auspicious to Charles,
Duke of Anjou.
The 24th of February was four times fortunate to
Charles the Fifth.
Of the family of the Trevors, six successive principal
branches were born on the 6th of J uly.
Sir Humphrey Davenport, was born on the 7th of July,
and on that day’s anniversary his father and mother died
within a quarter of an hour of each other.
Constantius the Emperor, son of Constantine the Great,
little inferior to his father, a worthy warrior and good
man, died the 3d of November.
Thomas Mountacute, Earl of Salisbury, that great man
and famous commander under Henry the 4th, 5th, and
6th, died on the same day of a wound he received at the
battle of Orleans.
Cardinal Borromeo, famous for his sanctity of life, and
therefore canonised, who made Milan famous by his resi-
dence there, likewise died on the 3d of November.
Sir John Perrot, a man very remarkable in his time,
Lord deputy of Ireland, son to Henry the eighth, and
very much like him, died in the Tower, on the same day
in 1592.
On the 3d of November the Sea broke over the banks
of many rivers, destroying divers towns and villages, both
in Scotland and England, with a number of persons and
an innumerable quantity of oxen and cattle ; at which
time the lands in Kent, at that time belonging to Earl
Goodwin,
 
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