[Loch-ruadh] Today in history July 30

[STEVE K ROURKE]

1178 Fredrick "Barbarossa" crowned King of Burgundy.
1233 Assassination of Conrad of Marburg and Gerhard Lutelholb.
1291 Haifa falls to the Mameluks.
1371 Massacre of the Compagnia del Bruco in Florence, Italy.
1419 Defenestration of Prague; beginning of the Hussite Wars.
1511 Birth of Giorgio Vasari. http://www.boglewood.com/cornaro/xvasari.html
1538 Newfoundland reached by Sir Humphrey Gilbert.
1588 Howard sails from Plymouth.