[Loch-ruadh] Today in history August 26

[STEVE K ROURKE]

846 Basilica of St. Peter in Rome plundered by Saracens.
1278 MARCHFIELD. http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/dante/pu07.htm (best
reference I can find)
1429 Jeanne d'Arc enters Paris.
1444 ST. JACOB (Swiss defeated by the French).
1498 Michelangelo commissioned to make the "Pieta".
1541 Turkish Sultan Suleiman I takes Buda (again), annexes Hungary.
1542 The Duchy of Lorraine becomes independent of the German empire.
1545 Pietro Farnese establishes the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza.
1565 The "Chase-about Raid" forces Moray and his supporters to flee.