[Loch-ruadh] Today in history August 13

[STEVE K ROURKE]

Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary (old)
Festival of Isis
Festival of Astarte
533 Election of Pope John I.
554 Justinian, Emperor of Byzantium, begins to rebuild Italy.
587 Death of St. Radegund, Queen of the Franks.
622 Death of St. Maximus the Confessor.
813 Establishment of the Feast of the Assumption.
900 Zwendibold (Lorraine) killed in battle.
1099 Election of Paschal II as Pope.
1169 Philip de Milly of Nablus enters the Templar Order.
1173 Death of St. Narses the Gracious.
1189 Richard I (England) sails from Barfleur and lands at Porsmouth,
England.
1415 SIEGE OF HARFLEUR by Henry V ( England) opens (ends 22 September,
1415).
1422 Birth of William Caxton, 1st English printer.
1438 Death of John Nider, philosopher.
1447 Death of Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan, leaving no heir.
1516 Treaty of Noyon.
1521 Cortez takes Tenochtitlan.
1529 1st definitely dated bullfight in Mexico.
1587 Baptism of first American Indian converted to Protestantism.