[Loch-ruadh] Today in history July 11th

[STEVE K ROURKE]

1244 Displaced by the Mongols, the Khwarismian Turks take Jerusalem; 300
people escape
1274 Birth of Robert I, "the Bruce," (Scotland)
1276 Election of Pope Adrian V
1302 COURTRAI (Flemish infantry defeat French Chivalry)
1346 Edward III ( England) lands in Normandy
1346 Charles IV chosen as Holy Roman Emperor
1382 Death of Nicolas Oresme 1
1533 Pope Clement VII excommunicates England's King Henry VIII for divorcing
Catherine of Aragon, and afterward marrying Anne Boleyn. Two years later,
Henry broke with Rome and established the Anglican communion as the national
religion of England.
1558 Birth of Robert Greene, Elizabethan dramatist
1593 Death of Guiseppe Arcimboldo, surrealist painter
1598 Founding of San Juan de los Caballeros, New Mexico