[Loch-ruadh] Today in history Sept. 8

[STEVE K ROURKE]

Set's Birthday (Ancient Egypt)
Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
1100 Clement III, 1st Anti-Pope, dies.
1127 First Faire at Glastonbury, England.
1157 Birth of Richard I "Lionheart" (England).
1198 Coronation of Philip, King of Germany.
1227 Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, sails on 5th Crusade.
1380 KULIKOVO POLE (Mongols defeated by Russians under Dimitri "Donskoi").
1425 Death of King Charles III "the Noble" ( Navarre).
1429 Joan of Arc wounded in battle at Paris.
1504 Michaelangelo's "David" first shown.
1522 Spanish navigator Juan de Elcano returns to Spain, completing 1st
circumnavigation of the globe (expedition began under Magellan).
1529 Suleiman "the Lawgiver" re-enters Buda and establishes John Zapolyai as
a puppet King of Hungary.
1552 Dr. Ridley, Bishop of London, Protestant, offers to preach before Lady
Mary, Catholic, (later Queen of England).
1565 Spanish begin construction of a fort at St. Augustine, Florida (1st
permanent settlement in USA).
1565 Turkish siege of Malta broken by Maltese & Knights of St. John.
1588 Birth of Marin Mersenne, mathematician, musician.
1592 Birth of Peter Styvesant.