[Loch-ruadh] Today in history

[STEVE K ROURKE]

Thanks to all who have said they enjoy these pieces of trivia. Here is
today's.


Born on this date:
1462 Louis XII (the Just) king of France (1498-1515)
1550 Charles IX king of France (1560-74)


678 St Agatho begins his reign as Catholic Pope

1299 In his encyclical 'Scimus fili,' Pope Boniface VIII claimed that
Scotland owed allegiance to the Catholic Church.

0992: Death of Conan I of Brittany

1095: Death of St. Ladislaus I, King of Hungary

1352: Zug and Aeusser Amt join the Swiss Confederation

1497: Execution of Myghal an Gof

1519: Disputation of Leipzig

1574: Death of Giorgio Vasari, painter and writer


And while out of period:

1693 1st woman's magazine "The Ladies' Mercury" published (London)