[Loch-ruadh] Today in History August 5

[STEVE K ROURKE]

Born

1540: Joseph Scaliger, who proposed the Julian Day system of dating


Other events

642: Death of St. Oswald, King of Northumbria, by the hand of Penda, King of
Mercia



0882: Death of Louis III, King of France



1192: JAFFA: last battle of the 3rd Crusade (Saladin, with 7000 cavalry,
defeated by Richard I, with 2000 infantry, 54 knights, and 15 horses)



1305: Clement V elected Pope



1370: The Brigittine Order was approved by Pope Urban V



1391: Castilian sailors set fire to Barcelona's Jewish ghetto, killing 100



1503: Pope Alexander IV dines with Caesare Borgia and Cardinal Adriano
Castellesi



1583: First English settlement in the New World founded at St. John's
Newfoundland