[Loch-ruadh] Today in history
STEVE K ROURKE
SROURKE at prodigy.net
Wed Jun 27 09:07:02 PDT 2001
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)
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