[Loch-ruadh] Today in history July 22

[STEVE K ROURKE]

1099 Godfrey of Boullion elected first Christian ruler of Jerusalem.
1209 Capture of Beziers, France by the Albigensian "Crusade"; the Papal
Legate says "Kill them all; God will know His own.".
1212 Marriage of Otto IV ( Germany) to Beatrix of Swabia
1227 BORNHOVED - Danes defeated.
1246 John of Plato Carpini arrives at Karakorum, for the inauguration of
Guyuk as KaKhan.
1298 FALKIRK - defeat of Scots by English; apparent first use of the English
longbow in formal warfare .
1306 King Phillip ( France) arrests and imprisons all Jews in France.
1456 BELGRADE - Hunyadi defeats Ottoman army.
1461 Death of Charles VII ( France).
1470 Warwick submits to Henry VI's (England) Queen.
1478 Birth of Philip I "The Handsome" (Spain).
1499 DORNACH.
1515 Birth of St. Philip Neri.
1515 An alliance is formed between the Holy Roman Empire and Bohemia.
1559 Birth of St. Lawrence of Brindisi.
1570 Siege of Nicosia (ends 9 September, 1570).
1587 John White delivers 177 colonists to Roanoke Island.
1588 The Armada leaves Corunna.
1598 Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice" entered on the Stationers' Register.