[Loch-ruadh] Today in history Oct 30

[STEVE K ROURKE]

1091 Walcher of Malvern observes a lunar eclipse.
1270 8th & last Crusade is launched.
1281 HIMS (a Mongol army of 100,000 men, with King Leo ( Armenia) and the
Hospitlars battles a Muslim army under Qualawun. Neither side won this
extremely bloody battle).
1300 Edward (England) signs a truce and abandons his invasion of Scotland.
1340 RIO SALADO (Spanish/Portuguese defeat Moors).
1360 Enguerrand deCoucy, with Jean Froissart and Geoffrey Chaucer, sails to
England.
1389 Charles VI (France), visits the Pope in Avignon.
1422 Death of Charles VI ( France).
1451 Birth of Christopher Columbus, discoverer of America (uncertain date).
1460 WAKEFIELD: Defeat, and death, of Richard, Duke of York by Queen
Margaret ( England).
1502 Vasco da Gama orders Calcutta to surrender.
1536 Lutheranisim becomes the official religion of Denmark.
1536 Frederick II named heir to Norway and Denmark.
1581 The Meat-Carvers Guild of Venice tightens up it's Guild restrictions.
1586 Anna Kleiss burned for witchcraft.