[Loch-ruadh] Today in history Nov. 15

[STEVE K ROURKE]

Shichi-Go-San (7-5-3) Festival Day (Japan)
2349BC Birth of Methuselah.
309 Martyrdom of Sts. Shmona and Garia, the "Confessors of Edessa".
878 Death of St. Fintan of Rhienau.
1136 Death of St. Leopold, Prince of Austria.
1202 Zara, a Christian city, falls to the 4th Crusade.
1213 English knights representing shires called to a council - 1st known
time - Oxford.
1280 Death of St. Albertus Magnus.
1283 Guelfs and Ghibellines fight it out in Treviso, Italy, with victory
going to the Ghibellines.
1315 MORGARTEN (1,300 Swiss defeat 20,000 Hapsburgs).
1316 Birth of John I ( France).
1380 Pogroms in Paris.
1397 Birth of Pope Nicholas V, ended schism, founded Vatican Library.
1492 Columbus makes the first recorded observation of the use of tobacco.
1501 Arthur, Prince of Wales, marries Catherine of Aragon.
1533 Spaniards enter the Inca's holy city of Cuzco.
1539 Thomas Whiting, Abbot of Glastonbury, and two other monks of the Abbey,
"Arthur" and Roger James, hung drawn and quartered on Glastonbury Tor
(beatified 13 May 1896).
1591 Execution of Barnabe Brisson, President of the Parliament of Paris.