[Loch-ruadh] Today in history Oct 18

STEVE K ROURKE SROURKE at prodigy.net
Thu Oct 18 01:25:28 PDT 2001


St. Luke's Day.
Horn Faire, at Charlton, in Kent, England.
614 France gets a constitution.
629 Death of Clotaire II ( France).
707 Death of Pope John VII.
768 Coronation of Charlemagne and his brother Carloman, as co-rulers of the
Franks.
1097 The 1st Crusade lays siege to Antioch.
1417 Death of Pope Gregory XII.
1511 Death of Philippe de Commynes, historian.
1511 William Sweeting and John Brewster burnt for heresy.
1526 Death of Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon, in Florida.
1534 "Affair of the Placards". the violent manifestos against the Mass
which, by the contrivance of the Lutherans, had been placarded in Paris
1547 Birth of Justus Lipsius, humanist, classical scholar, writer.
1503 Death of Pope Pius III.







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