February 16, 600 – (we can probably assume this date was correctly denoted. Let’s hope, since this involves a pope, most of the people there were not involved in a orgy and had the time to write this down.)
Pope Gregory the Great declared “God bless you” to be the correct response to a sneeze.
It was once thought that sneezing was an omen of death, since many dying people fell into sneezing fits.
And so it goes
The Haus of Dcaligari 