[Loch-ruadh] Today in history Oct. 3

[STEVE K ROURKE]

675 Death of Sts. Ewalds the Two.
959 Death of St. Gerard of Brogne.
1190 Richard I (England) sacks Messina, Sicily.
1247 Count William of Holland elected anti-King by Rhenish prelates.
1226 Death of St. Francis of Assisi.
1264 Comet said to predict the death of Pope Urban IV is last seen.
1283 Execution of Dafydd I, last native Prince of Wales, by the English.
1468 Louis XI (France) strangles several birds, gifts of Charles "the Bold",
Duke of Burgundy.
1470 The Readeption of King Henry VI ( England).
1529 Colloquy of Marburg closes.
1555 Peace of Augsburg.
1568 Death of Isabel de Valois, 3rd wife of Philip II ( Spain).
1569 MONTCONTOUR (Catholic and Swiss defeat by Huguenots).
1574 Spanish evacuate Leyden, Holland.
1576 The "Spanish Terror" in Antwerp.
1582 Gregorian Calendar introduced.