[Loch-ruadh] Toda in history August 24

STEVE K ROURKE SROURKE at prodigy.net
Thu Aug 23 21:58:03 PDT 2001


1113 Birth of Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou.
1179 Saladin besieges the castle of Chastelet.
1191 Richard I ( England) leads the 3rd Crusade out of Acre along the
coastal road to Jaffa.
1198 Birth of Alexander II( Scotland).
1236 Pope Gregory relieves the Stedingers of excommunication.
1246 Kuyuk made Ka-Khan.
1273 Coronation of Rudolph of Hapsburg ( Germany).
1298 Coronation of Albert I ( Germany).
1307 Pope Clement writes to King Philip "the Fair".
1313 Death of Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor.
1328 MOUNT CASSEL (Philip VI, King of France defeats Flemish rebels).
1349 6,000 Jews killed at Mainz.
1415 Portugeuse take Ceuta.
1444 ST JACOB-EN-BIRS (Swiss turn back French in Phyrric battle).
1456 Printing of the Gutenberg Bible completed.
1513 An Act is passed in Scotland enabling the heirs of those killed in
action against an enemy to inherit without the usual relief payment to the
Crown, and without the casualties of wardship and marriage.
1516 Marj Dabiq battle, Syria captured by Ottomans.
1524 Beginning of the Peasant's War.
1542 Gonzalo Pizarro sails the length of the Amazon River.
1560 Papal jurisdiction and the Catholic Mass abolished in Scotland.
1565 Failure of the Rebellion of the Earl of Murray against Mary, Queen of
Scots.
1569 ORTHEZ (Huguenots defeat Royalists).
1572 Murder of Coligny and the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.
1572 Death of Pierre de la Ramee (Petrus Ramus), mathematician.
1585 Margaret Rohrfelder, Barbara Ulmer and Ursula Sailler burned as
witches.






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