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1st Ballet Staged in Paris

Oct 15 Commissioned by Catherine de' Medici, the 1st ballet "Ballet Comique de la Reine" is staged in Paris

Queen Consort and Regent of France Catherine de' Medici

Famous Birthdays

  • Oct 9 Claude Gaspard Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician and poet, born in Bourg-en-Bresse, France (d. 1638)
  • Oct 21 Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (d. 1641)
Born in 1581

Famous Deaths

  • Oct 23 Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer, dies at 52


What Happened in 1581

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