[Loch-ruadh] Today in History August 5
STEVE K ROURKE
SROURKE at prodigy.net
Sun Aug 5 13:08:50 PDT 2001
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
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