[Loch-ruadh] Today in history July 31

STEVE K ROURKE SROURKE at prodigy.net
Mon Jul 30 21:53:28 PDT 2001


Lammas Eve
904 Moslems sack Thessalonica.
1191 Phillip II ( France) leaves Acre for France, where war is raging.
1192 Richard I takes Jaffa back from Saladin (3rd Crusade).
1219 William de Chartres, Master of the Templars, wounded in battle before
Damietta (5th Crusade).
1291 The Mameluks take Beirut - end of Latin presence in Palestine & Syria.
1315 Gates of Paris treacherously opened for Charles ( Navarre).
1358 Death of Etienne Marcel, Provost of Paris.
1367 Death of Giovanni Colombini.
http://www.imss.florence.it/museo/a/egesuat.html
1401 Thomas Barton, procurator of Glastonbury Abbey, reasserts the Abbey's
rights in the King's Court.
1423 CRAVANT. http://xenophongroup.com/montjoie/hyw_fp.htm
1498 Christopher Columbus discovers island of Trinidad.
1527 Birth of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor.
1547 John Knox captured by Royalists. http://www.creeds.net/bios/jknox.htm
1556 Death of St. Ignatius of Loyola.







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