[Loch-ruadh] Today in history Oct 4

[STEVE K ROURKE]

1147 King Louis VII and Queen Eleanor ( France) reach Constantinople on the
2nd Crusade.
1189 Capture of Gerard de Ridefort, 10th Master of the Templars, at the
Siege of Acre.
1209 Otto IV crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
1226 Death of St. Francis of Assisi.
1244 The Damascus Moslems, with their allies the Templars, Hospitalers, and
other Franks, march on Cairo and the Khwarismians.
1289 Birth of Louis X "the Quarreler" ( France).
1535 1st complete English translation of the Bible printed in Zurich.
1550 Birth of Charles IX ( Sweden).
1582 Last day of the Julian calendar in Italy, many Catholic countries.