[Loch-ruadh] Today in history August 9

[STEVE K ROURKE]

Born

1593: English author and angler Izaak Walton

Other events

0480 B.C.: After one of history's most famous battles, Persian forces
finally overran the heavily outnumbered Spartan defenders of the narrow pass
at Thermopylae in Greece.



0378: Battle of Adrianople, Visigoth Calvary defeats Roman Army



0803: St. Irene, 1st Byzantine Empress, dies



1048: Death of Pope Damascus II. He was pope from July to August of 1048.



1378: The Election of Urban VI as Pope declared null



1391: 300 Jews killed in Barcelona riots, for refusing baptism.



1420: Pierre d'Ailly, Bishop of Cambrai (1397-1420), died at the age of 70.
He sought to end the papal schism at the Council of Constance.



1471: Sixtus IV was named pope. He served until 1484. He forstered the
doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, condemed the abuses of the
Inquisition and launched an extensive building program in Rome (Sistine
Chapel, Sistine Bridge).



1483: First Mass celebrated in the Sistine Chapel.



1549: England declares war on France