[Loch-ruadh] Today in history Oct. 2

[STEVE K ROURKE]

534 Death of Athalaric, King of the Ostrogothics.
679 Death of St. Leger.
1066 The news of the landing of William of Normandy is brought to Harold,
King of England, at York.
1187 Fall of Jerusalem to al-Malik en-Nasir Salah-ud-Din Yusuf.
1284 A Charter granted to Nottingham for an annual Goose Faire.
1326 Edward II (England) flees London, his wife and Barons.
1452 Birth of Richard III ( England).
1491 Ferdinand and Isabella (Castile-Aragon) lay siege to the Moors of
Granada, and found Santa Fe, Spain.
1501 Catherine of Aragon arrives in Wales to marry Arthur, Prince of Wales.
1535 Jacques Cartier reaches a town in Canada which he names Montreal.
1593 One "Rosseau and his daughter", of France, accused of witchcraft.