Un jour, une Monnaie/un Billet : February 2015

Here is the February 2015 calendar of Cgb.fr. It includes 28 coins or banknotes whose pictures were picked from our website (shops and archives). You can find them on our website or Facebook homepage.

February 1 (1702) : Battle of Cremone, Northern Italy, between the French and Austrian armies.

February 2 (962) : Otto, King of Germany, was given the title of Emperor of the Romans in Roma.

February 3 (1468) : Death of Johannes Gutenberg, the famous German printer who improve the printing process with metallic characters.

February 4 (211) : Death of Emperor Septime Severe in Eboracum, United Kingdom.

February 5 (1626) : Birth of Marie Rabutin Chantal, married Sévigné, also known as the Marquise de Sévigné.

February 6 (1655) : Birth of Anne, Queen of Great Britain, last sovereign of the Stuart dynasty.

February 7 (457) : Leo Ist becomes the Orient Emperor after his marriage.

February 8 (1492) : Coronation of Anne de France in Saint Denis.

February 9 (1867) : Birth of the Japanese novelist Natsume Soseki in Edo. He was the author of I am a cat.

February 10 (1755) : Death of Montesquieu, author of Lettres persanes, in Paris at the age of 66.

February 11 (1127) : Death of William IV, Duke of Aquitaine, Count of Poitou and Gascogne.

February 12 (1690) : Death of Charles-le-Brun, artist and first paintor of Louis XIV, in Paris at the age of 70.

February 13 (1575) : Coronation of Henry III, the last of the Valois dynasty, in the cathedral of Reims.

February 14 (869) : Death of Cyrille, apostle of the Slavs, commemorated by Slovaquia in 2013.

February 15 (1710) : Birth of Louis XV in the Chateau de Versailles. He will succeed his great-grandfather Louis XIV.

February 16 (1899) : Death of the French President of the Republic, Felix Faure, in the arms of a demimondaine.

February 17 (364) : Death of Emperor Jovien.

February 18 (1162) : Coronation of Amaury Ist, King of Jerusalem.

February 19 (197) : Beginning of the Battle of Lugdunum, also called Battle of Lyon. The battle opposed Septime Severe to Clodius Albinus.

February 20 (116) : Trajan received the title of Parthicus from the Senate.

February 21 (1322) : Coronation of Charles IV in Reims.

February 22 (1403) : Birth of Charles VII in Paris.

February 23 (1934) : Beginning of the reign of Leopold III of Belgium.

February 24 (1670) : A royal edict from Louis XIV orders the construction of the Hôtel des Invalides.

February 25 (138) : Antoninus Pius is chosen to succeed Hadrian.

February 26 (364) : Proclamation of Valentinian Ist as an emperor.

February 27 (1594) : Coronation of Henry IV in the cathedral of Reims.

February 28 (1533) : Birth of Michel Eyquem, Lord of Montaigne, author of the famous Essays.

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