[Loch-ruadh] This day in history July 7th

[STEVE K ROURKE]

665 Death of St. Ethelburga of Faremountiers-en-Brie.
705 Death of St. Hedda.
0739: Death of St. Willibald, first known Englishman to visit the Holy Land
1124 Crusaders capture Tyre.
1304 Death of Pope Benedict XI.
1307 Death of Edward I (England) at Burgh-on-Sands.
1348 The Black Death arrives in England at Weymouth.
1438 Pragmatic Sanction.
1456 French ecclesiastical court rehabilitates Joan of Arc.
1520 OTUMBA - Cortez defeats the Aztecs.
1531 Death of Tilman Riemenschneider, late Gothic German sculptor.
1535 Martyrdom of Thomas More.
1537 Death of Madeleine, Queen to James V, King of Scots.
1540 HAWIKUL - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado conquers a Zuni pueblo in New
Mexico, USA, believing it to be one of the Seven Cities of Gold; 1st
skirmish between Indians & Europeans in western USA.
1550 Emperor Charles V announces the convening of the Council of Valladolid,
to discuss the issue of slavery in the New World.
1553 Mary Tudor hides in Sawston Hall from the Duke of Northumberland.
1585 Edict of Nemours.
1585 Grenville & Lane land at Roanoke, Va. to found Raleigh's 1st colony.
1586 Birth of Thomas Hooker, founder of Hartford, "Father of American
Democracy".