[Loch-ruadh] Today in history July 6th

[STEVE K ROURKE]

699 Death of St. Sexburga.
1070 Death of St. Godelive.
1187 Saladin executes some two hundred Outremer knights. He spares the King,
his brother Humphrey of Touron, Hugh of Jebail, the Master of the Temple
Gerard of Ridfort, and several other knights.
1189 Death of Henry II Plantagenet (England) at Chinon.
1266 Norway ceded Man and Hebridies Islands to Scotland.
1274 Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic faiths unite, for only 7 years.
1376 Wenceslaus crowned King of Germany.
1403 Caermarthen surrenders to Owain Glen Dwr.
1415 Martyrdom of Jan Hus.Czech reformer, who was condemned for heresy and
burned at the stake because of his outspoken appeals for church reform and
for political and religious rights for the common people.
1439 An Ecumenical council opens in Florence.
1439 Union of Greek and Roman Churches.
1450 Surrender of Caen.
1483 Coronation of Richard III and Anne (England).
1495 FORNOVO - French under Charles VII retreat after losing Naples.
1519 Charles I (Spain) elected as Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.
1535 English Catholic theologian Thomas More was beheaded for refusing to
recognize Henry VIII as supreme head of the Church of England, which had
just broken with the Roman Catholic Church.
1536 Jacques Cartier returns to France from his second voyage.
1553 Death of Edward VI (England) of consumption.
1553 Insurrection of Northumberland: Jane Grey proclaimed Queen of England.
1560 Treaty of Edinburgh.
1572 Death of Sigsimund II ( Poland).
1573 Peace of La Rochelle.
1581: Madlen Isolin, Maria Rosch, Brigida Wunsil, Catharina Einseler and
Anna Flieger, of Waldsee, Germany, burned as witches
1583 John Eldred visits the ruins of Babylon