[Loch-ruadh] Today in history July 17th

[STEVE K ROURKE]

0855 Death of St. Leo, Pope
0924 Death of Edward "the Elder," King of the Anglo-Saxons
1054 Coronation of Henry V as King of Germany
1085 Robert Guiscard, Norman conqueror of Sicily, dies in Ionian Islands
1198 Death of St. Narsus of Lampron
1203 First assault on Constantinople by the 4th Crusade; Alexius III flees
the city
1245 Excommunication and deposition of Fredrick II, Holy Roman Emperor
1270 Louis IX, King of France and the 8th Crusade land in Carthage, North
Africa
1385 Marriage of Charles IV, King of France and Isabella of Bavaria
1429 Coronation of Charles VII as King of France
1453 CASTILLION; Death of John Talbot (effective end of the 100 Yrs War)
1487 Birth of Esma'il I, Shah who converted Iran from Sunni to Shi'ah Islam
1505 Martin Luther enters the Augustinian monastery at Erfurt
1537 Janet Douglas, Lady Glamis, burned as a Witch at Edinburgh
1555 Birth of Richard Carew
1566 Bartolom‚ de Las Casas, historian, missionary to M‚xico and
humanitarian, dies at c. 92
1580 A French vessel is trapped and destroyed by the Spanish in Florida
1581 St. Edmund Campion and his associates arrested in England (hanged,
drawn and quartered on 1 Dec 1581)
1586 John Davis, English explorer, describes an iceberg in his journal