[Loch-ruadh] Today in History Dec. 14

[STEVE K ROURKE]

867 Election of Adrian II as Pope.
872 Death of Pope Adrian II; Election of Pope John III.
1154 Election of Pope Hadrian IV.
1217 Festival of Mevlana - Jelaeddin Rumi (Whirling Dervishes) (Turkey).
1247 Death of Robin Hood.
1264 Creation of the Barony of DeRos (England).
http://www.hereditarytitles.com/Page22.html
1417 Burning of Sir John Oldcastle as a Lollard (he was the prototype of the
Shakespearean character of Falstaff).
1503 Birth of Michel de Nostre Damus (Nostradamus), Saint-Remy, France,
astrologer, seer, physician.
1515 France makes peace with Pope Leo X.
1542 Death of James V (Scotland); 6-day-old Mary, Queen of Scots succedes to
the Scottish throne.
1546 Birth of Tycho Brahe.
http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/People/tycho_brahe.html
1553 Birth of Henry IV of France (of Navarre).
1575 Stephen Bathory elected King of Poland.
1591 Death of Juan de Yepes, called "St. John of the Cross".
http://www.karmel.at/eng/juan.htm