* 1458 – George of Poděbrady is chosen as the King of Bohemia.

In 1451 he undertook a mission to Bohemia and concluded a satisfactory arrangement with the Hussite leader George of Poděbrady.

Pius II was also engaged in a series of disputes with the Bohemian King George of Poděbrady and the Sigismund of Austria ( who was excommunicated for having arrested Nicholas of Cusa, Bishop of Brixen ).

* March 22 – George of Poděbrady, first elected King of Bohemia ( b. 1420 )

Defeated in this struggle, which was concluded in 1462, Albert made an alliance with his former enemy, George of Poděbrady, King of Bohemia, a step which caused Pope Paul II to place him under the ban.

After the election of George of Poděbrady to the Czech throne following the Hussite wars, a new cultural wave swept into Bohemia.

Pope Paul rejected King George of Poděbrady of Bohemia because he upheld the conventions of the Council of Basel in favor of the Utraquists.

After the war, Forman attended the elite King George boarding school in the spa town Poděbrady, where his fellow students included Václav Havel, the Mašín brothers and future film-makers Ivan Passer and Jerzy Skolimowski.

In the meantime, John Hunyadi acted as regent for Ladislaus in Hungary, while George of Poděbrady performed the same office in Bohemia.

Ladislaus's cousins Frederick V and Albert VI succeeded him in Austria ; Hungary elected Matthias Corvinus, the brother of Ladislaus Hunyadi, as king ; and Bohemia elected George of Poděbrady, the only Hussite ruler of that kingdom.

George of Poděbrady – a painting by Alfons Mucha showing Cardinal Fantin explaining the Catholic Church's position on George's election.

George of Kunštát and Poděbrady ( 23 April 1420 – 22 March 1471 ), also known as Poděbrad or Podiebrad (; ), was King of Bohemia ( 1458 – 1471 ).

George was the son of Victor of Kunštát and Poděbrady, a Bohemian nobleman, one of the leaders of the Orphans or Utraquists, the more moderate faction of the Hussites during the Hussite Wars.

The historical importance of the city of Tábor ceased only when it was captured by King George of Poděbrady in 1452.

In the late 15th century, queen consort Johana of Rožmitál, wife of King George of Poděbrady, had a castle erected on the ruins.

Matthias was taken hostage by George of Poděbrady, governor of Bohemia, a friend of the Hunyadis who aimed to raise a national king to the Hungarian throne.

Soon after his coronation, Matthias turned his attention upon Bohemia, where the Hussite leader George of Poděbrady had gained the throne.

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The Taborite party never recovered from its defeat at Lipany, and after the town of Tábor had been captured by George of Poděbrady in 1452, Utraquist religious worship was established there.

In 1459 was elevated by king of Bohemia George of Poděbrady to County, but still remained integral part of Bohemia as " outer region ", and was not counted as part of Silesia.

George of Poděbrady, later to become the " national " king of Bohemia, emerged as leader of the Utraquist regency.

Ladislaus died of the plague in 1457, and in 1458 the Bohemian estates elected George of Poděbrady as king.

Czech Catholic nobles joined in the League of Zelena Hora in 1465, challenging the authority of George of Poděbrady ; the next year, Pope Paul II excommunicated George.

Despite the Democratic majority in Congress, the effort to create a national health care system ultimately died when compromise legislation by George J. Mitchell failed to gain a majority of support in August 1994.

Asquith died in 1928 and the enigmatic figure of Lloyd George returned to the leadership and began a drive to produce coherent policies on many key issues of the day.

In 1957 this total fell to five when one of the Liberal MPs died and the subsequent by-election was lost to the Labour Party, which selected the former Liberal Deputy Leader Lady Megan Lloyd George as its own candidate.

When John Lawson Johnston died, George Lawson Johnston inherited the Bovril business.

In 1927 Dunn's widow, Mrs. George Pross ( Dunn had died in 1922 ), sold the team to a syndicate headed by Alva Bradley.

Beatty's other brothers were Charles Harold Longfield ( 1870 – 1917 ) who served with distinction in the South Africa wars before dying from complications after losing an arm in Flanders, Richard George ( 1882 – 1915 ) who died on active service in India, William Vandeleur Schruder ( 1873 – 1935 ) who became an army Major and Newmarket horse trainer, and one sister Kathleen Roma ( 1875 –).

Albert died childless and was succeeded by his brother, who became King George.

Three siblings died before becoming adults: his full sister Mildred died when she was about one, his half-brother Butler died while an infant, and his half-sister Jane died at the age of 12, when George was about 2.

George's father died when George was 11 years old, after which George's half-brother Lawrence became a surrogate father and role model.

Six months after his wedding, George contracted pleurisy and died, aged 67, on 12 August 1848 at Tapton House in Chesterfield, Derbyshire.

Captain George Vancouver, one of Britain's greatest explorers and navigators, died in obscurity on 10 May 1798 at the age of 40, less than three years after completing his voyages and expeditions.

Lord Aberdeen died at Argyll House, St. James's, London, on 14 December 1860, and was buried in the family vault at Stanmore. In 1994 novelist, columnist and politician Ferdinand Mount used George Gordon's life as the basis for a historical novel – Umbrella.

Two days after preaching, as usual, at the Gracechurch Street Meeting House in London, George Fox died between 9 and 10 p. m. on 13 January 1691.

He died 12 September 1500, and was succeeded in his German territories by George as the head of the Albertine line, while George's brother Heinrich became hereditary governor of Friesland.

Both George and their second son, John ( 1803 – 1834 ), led troubled lives and died in early adulthood.

* 1944 – The final page of the comic Krazy Kat was published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died.

( George Peppard died in 1994 ).

Gene Roddenberry created the character in honour of George La Forge, a quadriplegic fan of the original Star Trek series who died in 1975.

Sophia, a granddaughter of James VI and I, died less than two months before she would have become queen ; her claim to the thrones passed on to her eldest son, George Louis, Elector of Hanover, who ascended them as George I on 1 August 1714 Old Style.

In the United States Department of War in Washington, D. C., General George Marshall is informed that three of four brothers in the Ryan family have all died within days of each other and that their mother will receive all three telegrams on the same day.

It is likely that Saint George was born to a Christian noble family in Lod, Syria Palaestina during the late third century between about 275 AD and 285 AD, and he died in Nicomedia.