[Loch-ruadh] Today in history August 15 ( Sorry about being late with this one)
STEVE K ROURKE
SROURKE at prodigy.net
Wed Aug 15 14:15:51 PDT 2001
Born on this date
1195: St. Anthony of Padua
1432: Poet Luigi Pulci, Italy
Other events
0465: Death of Libius Severus, Emperor of the West
0717: Siege of Constantinople raised
0778: Charlemagne's rear guard, returning from Spain, attacked by Basques;
Death of Roland
1038: Death of St. Stephen, King of Hungary
1057: MacBeth, King of Scotland, killed by Malcolm MacDuncan, son of King
Duncan.
1070: Lanfranc becomes Archbishop of Canterbury
1079: Malcolm III, King of Scotland, invades England
1096: The First Crusade sets out for Jerusalem
1209: Surrender of Carcassone (Albegensian "Crusade")
1261: Michael VIII usurps the Byzantine throne
1281: The Kami Kaze, the "Divine Wind," destroys the invading Mongol fleet
off Japan
1327: Slavs of Tver, Russia, massacre the Mongol population
1457: The completion of the "Mainz Psalter," the earliest specifically dated
printed book. (3 years after Gutenberg.) The printer's names were Peter
Schoeffer and Joachim Fust, which last is the origin of the legend of
"Faust." The Psalter was printed in a calligraphic style, and all the books
were "written" identically, giving rise to the story of Faust's pact with
the Devil.
1464: Death of Pope Pius II
1534: Foundation of the Jesuits
1548: Mary, Queen of Scots, arrives in France
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