Events

January–March

January 5 Events Pre-1600 * 1477 – Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is defeated and killed in a conflict with René II, Duke of Lorraine; Burgundy subsequently becomes part of France. 1601–1900 * 1675 – Battle of Colmar: The French ...

– Emperor Go-Sai ascends to the throne of

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. *

January 7 Events Pre-1600 *49 BC – The Senate of the Roman Republic, Senate of Rome says that Caesar will be declared a public enemy unless he disbands his army, prompting the tribunes who support him to flee to where Caesar is waiting in Ravenna ...

– Pope Innocent X, leader of the

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and the

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, dies after more than 10 years of rule. *

February 14 It is observed in most countries as Valentine's Day. Events Pre-1600 * 748 – Abbasid Revolution#Persian phase, Abbasid Revolution: The Kaysanites Shia#History, Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad ...

– The

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s launch coordinated attacks against the Spanish in Chile, beginning the Mapuche uprising of 1655. *

February 16 Events Pre-1600 * 1249 – Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khagan of the Mongol Empire. * 1270 – The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Livonian Order in the Battl ...

– Dutch Grand Pensionary advisor Johan de Witt marries Wendela Bicker. *

March 8 Events Pre-1600 * 1010 – Ferdowsi completes his epic poem '' Shahnameh''. * 1126 – Following the death of his mother, queen Urraca of León, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of León. * 1262 – Battle of Hausbergen between ...

– John Casor becomes the first legally recognized slave in what will become the United States, as a court in Northampton County in the

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issues its decision in the Casor lawsuit, the first instance of a judicial determination in the Thirteen Colonies holding that a person who has committed no crime could be held in servitude for life. *

March 25 Until 1752 it was the official date of the beginning of the year in England and its dominions (in the Julian calendar). Events Pre-1600 * 410 – The Southern Yan capital of Guanggu falls to the Jin dynasty general Liu Yu, ending th ...

–

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's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by

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April–June

* April 4 – Battle of Porto Farina,

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: English admiral Robert Blake's fleet defeats the Barbary pirates. *

April 7 Events Pre-1600 * 451 – Attila the Hun captures Metz in France, killing most of its inhabitants and burning the town. * 529 – First '' Corpus Juris Civilis'', a fundamental work in jurisprudence, is issued by Eastern Roman Em ...

– Pope Alexander VII (born Fabio Chigi) succeeds Pope Innocent X, as the 237th

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. *

April 24 Events Pre-1600 * 1479 BC – Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th dynasty). * 1183 BC – Traditional reckoning of the Fall of Troy ...

– The Piedmontese Easter Massacre of the

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: Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy slaughters 1,500 men, women and children; this is memorialized in John Milton's sonnet " On the Late Massacre in Piedmont" and apologized for by

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2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

. * April 26 – The

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denies Peter Stuyvesant's request to exclude Jews from

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(

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). * April 28 – Admiral Blake severely damages the arsenal of the Bey of

. *

May 10 Events Pre-1600 * 28 BC – A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China. * 1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of ...

– 27 – Anglo-Spanish War: Invasion of Jamaica – Forces of the English Protectorate led by

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and Robert Venables capture the island of

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from

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. *

June 13 Events Pre-1600 * 313 – The decisions of the Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius, granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, are published in Nicomedia. * 1325 – Ibn ...

– Adriana Nooseman-van de Bergh becomes the first actress, in Amsterdam theater.

July–September

* July 20 – The Amsterdam Town Hall (the modern-day Royal Palace) is inaugurated. * July 27 ** The Jews in

petition for a separate Jewish cemetery. ** The Netherlands and

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sign a military treaty. * July 30 – Dutch troops capture Fort Assahudi Seram. * July 31 – Russo-Polish War (1654–67): The Russian army enters the capital of the

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, which it holds for 6 years. * August 9 – Lord Protector

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divides England into 11 districts, under major-generals. * August 28 –

and Peter Stuyvesant bar colonial Jews from military service. * August – The governor of New Netherland, Peter Stuyvesant, attacks the New Sweden (

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) colony. * September 8 – Swedish King Karl X Gustav occupies

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(Poland). * September 26 – Peter Stuyvesant recaptures the Dutch Fory Casimir, and defeats the New Sweden (

) colony.

October –December

* October 15 – The Jews of

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are massacred. * October 19 – Swedish King Karl X Gustav occupies

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(Poland). * November 3 – England and France sign military and economic treaties. * November 24 – English Lord Protector

announces measures against the Laudian party, which are enforced starting on January 1. * December 4 – Middelburg, the Netherlands forbids the building of a

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. * December 18 – The Whitehall Conference ends with the determination that there is no law preventing Jews from re-entering England after the Edict of Expulsion of 1290. * December 27 –

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/the Deluge: Monks at the Jasna Góra Monastery in

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are successful in fending off a month-long siege.

Date unknown

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, a 22-year-old paraplegic watchmaker, builds the world's first self-propelling chair on a three-wheel chassis using a system of cranks and cogwheels. However, the device has the appearance of a hand bike more than a

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since the design includes hand cranks mounted at the front wheel. * The '' Bibliotheca Thysiana'' is erected, the only surviving 17th century example in the Netherlands, of a building designed as a library. * 1655 Malta plague outbreak kills 20 people. * Frederick III of Denmark-Norway gives control of the

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to Christoffer Gabel and his son, which will last until 1709.

Births

January 1 January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in the Gregorian Calendar; 364 days remain until the end of the year (365 in leap years). This day is also known as New Year's Day since the day marks the beginning of the year. __TOC__ Events ...

– Christian Thomasius, German jurist (d. 1728) *

– John Coney (silversmith), early American silversmith/goldsmith (d. 1722) *

January 6 Events Pre-1600 * 1066 – Following the death of Edward the Confessor on the previous day, the Witan meets to confirm Harold Godwinson as the new King of England; Harold is crowned the same day, sparking a succession crisis that will ...

** Niccolò Comneno Papadopoli, Italian jurist of religious law and historian (d. 1740) ** Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1720) *

January 11 Events Pre-1600 * 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams—the Blues and the Greens—in the Hippodrome escalates into violence. * 630 – Conquest of Mecca: Muhammad and his ...

** Charles Sergison, English politician (d. 1732) ** Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk, England (d. 1701) *

January 13 Events Pre-1600 * 27 BC – Octavian transfers the state to the free disposal of the Roman Senate and the people. He receives Spain, Gaul, and Syria as his province for ten years. * 532 – The Nika riots break out, during the ra ...

–

Bernard de Montfaucon Dom Bernard de Montfaucon, O.S.B. (; 13 January 1655 – 21 December 1741) was a French Benedictine monk of the Congregation of Saint Maur. He was an astute scholar who founded the discipline of palaeography, as well as being an editor of w ...

, French Benedictine monk (d. 1741) *

January 19 Events Pre-1600 * 379 – Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to '' Augustus'', and gives him authority over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire. * 649 – Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surren ...

– Nalan Xingde, Chinese poet (d. 1685) *

January 21 Events Pre-1600 * 763 – Following the Battle of Bakhamra between Alids and Abbasids near Kufa, the Alid rebellion ends with the death of Ibrahim, brother of Isa ibn Musa. * 1525 – The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded wh ...

– Antonio Molinari, Italian painter (d. 1704) *

January 25 Events Pre-1600 * 41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate. * 750 – In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to the overthrow of the dyn ...

– Cornelius Anckarstjerna, Dutch-born Swedish admiral (d. 1714) *

January 27 Events Pre-1600 * 98 – Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor. * 945 – The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to become monks by Constantine VII, who becomes sole emperor of the ...

– Henri de Nesmond, French churchman (d. 1727) *

February 2 Events Pre-1600 * 506 – Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths, promulgates the Breviary of Alaric (''Breviarium Alaricianum'' or ''Lex Romana Visigothorum''), a collection of " Roman law". * 880 – Battle of Lüneburg Heath: ...

– William "Tangier" Smith, Moroccan mayor (d. 1705) *

February 7 Events Pre-1600 * 457 – Leo I becomes the Eastern Roman emperor. * 987 – Bardas Phokas the Younger and Bardas Skleros, Byzantine generals of the military elite, begin a wide-scale rebellion against Emperor Basil II. * 1301 & ...

– Jean-François Regnard, French comic poet (d. 1709) *

– Jacques-Nicolas Colbert, French churchman (d. 1707) *

February 15 Events Pre-1600 * 438 – Roman emperor Theodosius II publishes the law codex Codex Theodosianus * 590 – Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia. * 706 – Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Ti ...

– August, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg-Zörbig, German prince (d. 1715) *

– Charles, Electoral Prince of Brandenburg, German prince (d. 1674) * February 25 – Carel de Moor, Dutch painter (d. 1738) *

February 28 Events Pre-1600 *202 BC – Emperor Gaozu of Han, Liu Bang is enthroned as the Emperor of China, beginning four centuries of rule by the Han dynasty. * 870 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople (Roman Catholic), Fourth Council of Co ...

– Johann Beer, Austrian composer (d. 1700) *

March 4 Events Pre-1600 * AD 51 – Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title '' princeps iuventutis'' (head of the youth). * 306 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia. * 581 – Yang Jian declares himself Emperor ...

– Fra Galgario, Italian painter (d. 1743) *

March 6 Events Pre-1600 * 12 BCE – The Roman emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the emperor. * 845 – The 42 Martyrs of Amorium are killed after refusing to convert to Islam. * 1204 &ndas ...

–

Frederik Krag Frederik Krag (6 March 1655 – 24 September 1728) was a Danish nobleman (Baron) and senior civil servant who served kings Frederick IV and Frederick V. He was the Governor-General of Norway, from 1713 until 1722. He is not fondly remembered ...

, Danish nobleman and senior civil servant (d. 1728) *

March 23 Events Pre-1600 * 1400 – The Trần dynasty of Vietnam is deposed, after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule, by Hồ Quý Ly, a court official. * 1540 – Waltham Abbey is surrendered to King Henry VIII of England; the las ...

** Richard Hill of Hawkstone, English statesman (d. 1727) ** Sir Richard Myddelton, 3rd Baronet, English politician (d. 1716) * April 8 – Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Germany (d. 1707) * April 19 – George St Lo, Royal Navy officer and administrator (d. 1718) * April 25 – John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale, English politician (d. 1700) * April 26 ** Rinaldo d'Este (1655–1737), Duke of Modena (d. 1737) ** Ofspring Blackall, Bishop of Exeter (d. 1716) * May 4 – Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian maker of musical instruments, invented the piano (d. 1731) * May 13 – Pope Innocent XIII (d. 1724) * May 31 – Jacques Eléonor Rouxel de Grancey, Marshal of France (d. 1725) * June 4 – Thomas of Cori, Italian Friar Minor and preacher (d. 1729) * June 11 – Antonio Cifrondi, Italian painter (d. 1730) * June 12 – Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (d. 1715) * July 7 – Christoph Dientzenhofer, German architect (d. 1722) * July 20 – Ford Grey, 1st Earl of Tankerville, England (d. 1701) * August 2 – Sir John Hotham, 3rd Baronet, English politician (d. 1691) *

August 13 Events Pre-1600 * 29 BC – Octavian holds the first of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate the victory over the Dalmatian tribes. * 523 – John I becomes the new Pope after the death of Pope Hormisdas. * 554 &ndash ...

– Johann Christoph Denner, German musical instrument maker, invented the clarinet (d. 1707) * August 16 – Frederick Christian, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe (d. 1728) * August 18 – James Collett, English-born merchant who settled in Norway (d. 1727) * August 22 – Joseph Robineau de Villebon, governor of Acadia (d. 1700) *

September 2 Events Pre-1600 * 44 BC – Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion. * 44 BC – Cicero launches the first of his '' Philippicae'' (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of ...

– Andries Pels, Dutch banker (d. 1731) * September 9 –

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, diplomat, Secretary of State for Scotland (d. 1737) * September 12 – Sébastien de Brossard, French composer and music theorist (d. 1730) * September 14 – Éléonor Marie du Maine du Bourg, French nobleman and general (d. 1739) * September 21 – Roger Cave, English politician (d. 1703) * September 29 – Johann Ferdinand of Auersperg, Duke of Münsterberg (d. 1705) *

September 30 Events Pre-1600 * 489 – The Ostrogoths under Theoderic the Great defeat the forces of Odoacer for the second time. * 737 – The Turgesh drive back an Umayyad invasion of Khuttal, follow them south of the Oxus, and capture thei ...

– Charles III, Prince of Guéméné, French nobleman (d. 1727) * October 4 – Lothar Franz von Schönborn, Archbishop of Mainz (d. 1729) * October 12 – Richard Neville (the younger), English politician (d. 1717) * October 25 – Fabio Brulart de Sillery, French churchman (d. 1714) * November 1 – Ferdinand Kettler, Duke of Courland and Semigallia (d. 1737) * November 6 – Daniel Lascelles (1655–1734), English Member of Parliament (d. 1734) * November 12 ** Eustache Restout, French painter (d. 1743) ** Francis Nicholson, British Army general, colonial administrator (d. 1727) * November 16 – Alessandro Gherardini, Italian painter (d. 1726) * November 18 – Walter Norborne, English politician (d. 1684) * November 19 – Sir William Robinson, 1st Baronet, British politician (d. 1736) * November 20 – Sir Thomas Grosvenor, 3rd Baronet, English politician (d. 1700) * November 24 – King Charles XI of Sweden (d. 1697) * December 9 – Isaac van Hoornbeek, Grand Pensionary of Holland (d. 1727) * December 10 – Sir William Forester, British politician (d. 1718) * December 13 – John Evelyn the Younger, English translator (d. 1699) * December 14 – Philip, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal, son of William VI (d. 1721) * December 27 – Abstrupus Danby, English politician (d. 1727) * December 28 – Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1698) * December 29 – Lewis Watson, 1st Earl of Rockingham, English politician (d. 1724) * ''date unknown'' – Zumbi, runaway slave in Brazil (d. 1695)

Deaths

– Louis Philip, Count Palatine of Simmern-Kaiserslautern, Prince of Paltinate (b. 1602) *

– Pope Innocent X (b. 1574) *

– Pier Luigi Carafa, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1581) *

February 21 Events Pre-1600 * 452 or 453 – Severianus, Bishop of Scythopolis, is martyred in Palestine. * 1245 – Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery. * 1440 – The ...

– John X of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp, Prince-Bishop of Lübeck (1634–1655) (b. 1606) * February 25 – Daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (b.

1580 1580 (Roman numerals, MDLXXX) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. Events January–March * January 31 – Portuguese succession crisis of 1580: The death of Henry, King of Portugal, with no direct heirs, leads ...

) *

February 27 Events Pre-1600 * 380 – Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I and his co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to Nicene Christianity. * 425 – The University of Constantin ...

– Francesco Molin, Doge of Venice (b. 1575) *

March 28 Events Pre-1600 * AD 37 – Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, bestowed on him by the Senate. * 193 – After assassinating the Roman Emperor Pertinax, his Praetorian Guards auction off the throne to Did ...

– Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg, German princess and queen consort of Sweden (b. 1599) * March 30 – James Stewart, 1st Duke of Richmond (b. 1612) *

April 6 Events Pre–1600 *46 BC – Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) at the Battle of Thapsus. * 402 – Stilicho defeats the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia. * ...

– David Blondel, French Protestant clergyman (b. 1591) *

April 14 Events Pre-1600 * 43 BC – Legions loyal to the Roman Senate, commanded by Gaius Pansa, defeat the forces of Mark Antony in the Battle of Forum Gallorum. * 69 – Vitellius, commanding Rhine-based armies, defeats Roman emperor ...

– Johann Erasmus Kindermann, German composer and organist (b. 1616) * April 29 – Cornelis Schut, Flemish painter, draughtsman and engraver (b. 1597) * April 30 – Eustache Le Sueur, French painter (b. 1617) * May 5 – Richard Harrison, English politician (b. 1583) * May 8 – Edward Winslow, American Pilgrim leader (b. 1596) * May 30 – Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (b. 1581) *

June 26 Events Pre-1600 *4 AD, 4 – Augustus adopts Tiberius. * 221 – Roman emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar (title), Caesar. * 363 – Roman emperor Julian (emperor), J ...

– Margaret of Savoy, Vicereine of Portugal (b. 1589) * June 27 – Eleonora Gonzaga, Holy Roman Empress, married to

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(b. 1598) * June 30 – Jacobus Boonen, Dutch Catholic archbishop (b.

1573 Year 1573 (Roman numerals, MDLXXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. Events January–March * January 25 (22nd day of 12th month of Genki (era), Genki 3 – At the Battle of Mikatagahara in Japan, ...

) * July 15 – Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect (b. 1570) *

July 28 Events Pre-1600 *1364 – Troops of the Republic of Pisa and the Republic of Florence clash in the Battle of Cascina. *1540 – Henry VIII of England marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard. *1571 – La Laguna encomienda, known t ...

** Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier and writer (b. 1619) ** Suzuki Shōsan, Japanese samurai (b. 1579) * July 30 – Sigmund Theophil Staden, important early German composer (b. 1607) * August 10 – Alfonso de la Cueva, 1st Marquis of Bedmar, Spanish cardinal and diplomat (b. 1572) * September 7 – François Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist (b. 1601) * September 24 – Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse-Eschwege (b. 1617) * October 13 – Tobie Matthew, English Member of Parliament (b. 1577) * October 14 – Arnold Möller, German calligrapher (b. 1581) * October 16 – Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician and music theorist (b. 1591) * October 18 – Joachim Lütkemann, German theologian (b. 1608) * October 24 –

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, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (b. 1592) * November 3 – Paulus Aertsz van Ravesteyn, Dutch printer (born c. 1586) * November 6 – Maximilian, Prince of Dietrichstein, German prince (b. 1596) * November 16 – Giuseppe Marcinò, Italian priest, member of the Order of Friars Minor (b. 1589) * November 23 – Elizabeth Wriothesley, Countess of Southampton (b. 1572) * November 28 – John Oglander, English politicians (b. 1585) * December 17 – Ukita Hideie, Japanese ''

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'' (b.

) * December 20 – Gregers Krabbe, Danish noble (b. 1594) * December 22 – Tsugaru Nobuyoshi, Japanese daimyō (b. 1619) * December 31 – Sir John Wray, 2nd Baronet, English politician (b. 1586) * ''date unknown'' – Kocc Barma Fall, Senegambian philosopher (b. 1586)''Kocc Barma Fall disait…'' nAu Senegal (26 Sep 2013

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