[Loch-ruadh] Today in history Nov. 14

[STEVE K ROURKE]

565 Death of Justinian I "the Great", Eastern Roman Emperor.
976 Chao K'uang-yin (T'ai-Tsu), 1st Sung emperor of China, dies.
1060 Death of Count Geoffrey of Anjou.
1119 Leonid meteor shower, radiant in Leo.
1180 Death of St. Laurence O'Toole.
1305 Crowning of the first "Avignon Pope" (Clement V).
1316 Birth of John I Posthumous, French King born 5 months after father's
death.
1359 Death of St. Gregory Palamas.
1380 Summoning of the Estates-General of France.
1501 Marriage of Arthur, heir to England, to Katherine of Aragon.
1525 Pizarro leaves Panama to conquer Peru.
1539 Thomas Whiting, Abbot of Glastonbury, is tried by agents of Henry VIII
(England). The charges are unknown.
1540 Death of Rosso Fiorentino. http://www.mega.it/eng/egui/pers/rosfio.htm
1575 Elizabeth I ( England) refuses sovereignty of the Netherlands.
1587 Cavendish, an English sea-rover, captures "Great St. Anne," a Spanish
treasure galleon.