February 19
The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on February 19 this year.
- R. Yaakov Yechezkel Grunwaldd. 1941 CE
Rav of Papa, Hungary; founding figure of the Pupa Hasidic dynasty
- 197 CEGraeco-Roman
Septimius Severus defeated the rival claimant Clodius Albinus near Lugdunum (Lyon) in one of the largest and bloodiest battles between Roman armies.
- 1878 CEBuddhist · born
Nyanatiloka Mahathera, born Anton Gueth in Wiesbaden, became the first continental European of the modern era to be ordained a Theravada Buddhist monk.
- 1914 CEEgyptian · born
Cyril Aldred, the British Egyptologist and art historian who wrote widely on Egyptian art and the Amarna period, was born on this day in 1914.
- 2024 CEEgyptian · died
Jan Assmann, the German Egyptologist known for his studies of ancient Egyptian religion and of cultural memory, died on this day in 2024.
- 1473 CEScience · born
Nicolaus Copernicus, the astronomer whose Sun-centered model of the heavens set the Scientific Revolution in motion, was born in Toruń in the Kingdom of Poland.
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