At the age of 219

• 27-January-2006 : Celebrations are held in Salzburg and around the , for the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
• 08-June-2004 : The pickled heart of Louis XVII of France is buried in the royal crypt at SaintSaintDenis.
• 11-May-2003 : Benvenuto Cellini's ''Saliera'' is stolen from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
• 10-July-2002 : At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting "The Massacre of the Innocents" (first version) is sold for ?49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet.
• 05-November-1998 : The journal ''Nature'' publishes a genetic study showing compelling evidence that Thomas Jefferson fathered his slave Sally Hemings' son Eston Hemings Jefferson.
• 14-September-1975 : Rembrandt's painting "The Night Watch" is slashed a dozen times at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
• 08-January-1962 : Leonardo da Vinci's ''Mona Lisa'' is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.. Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the worst Dutch rail disaster.
• 26-February-1959 : Author Walter Mene throws acid on a Rubens painting in Munich.
• 17-February-1958 : Pope Pius XII declares Saint Clare the patron saint of television.
• 06-May-1952 : Farouk of Egypt has himself announced as a descendant of prophet Muhammad.