[Loch-ruadh] Today in history August 25

[STEVE K ROURKE]

716 Siege of Constantinople begins.
1213 Archbishop Langton meets with the Barons and prelates of England and
thus sets in motion the Magna Charta.
1218 The fleet of the 5th Crusade finally breaks thru to Damietta.
1248 King Louis IX ( France) and the 7th Crusade set out.
1268 TAGLIACOZZO (Prince Charles of Anjou defeats and executes Conradin,
ending the Hohenstauffen line).
1284 Birth of Edward II ( England).
1330 Death of Douglas, " The Good Sir James," in Spain.
1346 CRECY (English archers defeat the French Chivalry).
1346 Death of John "the Blind", King of Bohemia, at Crecy.
1482 Death of Margaret, Queen to Henry VI ( England).
1530 Birth of Ivan IV "the Terrible," Czar of Russia.
1537 The Honourable Artillery Company chartered in England.
1539 The Abbey of Glastonbury, England dissolved as Catholic institution.
1558 Marriage of Francis II (France) to Mary, Queen of Scots.
1560 Protestantism formally effected in Scotland.
1580 Antonio, claimant to the Portuguese throne, routed by the Spanish.