[Loch-ruadh] Today in history August 22

Dohmnall O'Ruairc MoASLochRuadh at prodigy.net
Tue Aug 21 21:53:01 PDT 2001


634 Death of Abu Bakr, Caliph.
1138 BATTLE OF THE STANDARD (Scots defeated by the English).
1240 Birth of Rabbi Menahem b. Solomon Meiri, talmudist, author.
1280 Death of Pope Nicholas III.
1305 William Wallace arrives in London, and is tried and convicted for
treason.
1350 John II, "the Good" becomes King of France.
1389 Coronation of Isabella, wife of Charles IV, King of France.
1485 BOSWORTH and the defeat of (by Henry VII Tudor) and death of Richard
III Plantagenet (end of the War of the Roses).
1513 Surrender of Therovanne to the English.
1513 James IV, King of Scots, and his army, invade England.
1540 Death of John Zapolya, once King of Hungary.
1547 "Bloody Diet" of Bohemia.
1553 Execution of John Dudley, Earl of Northumberland.
1572 Coligny shot and wounded.
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