[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History Dec. 6

[Steve Rourke]

Born:
1285 Ferdinand V king of Castile & León
1421: England's King Henry VI
1478: Baldassare Castiglione, Italian diplomat, writer
1550 Orazio Tiberio Vecchi composer


Deaths:
0342: Death of St. Nicholas
1185: Death of Alphonso I, King of Portugal
1352: Death of Pope Clement VI
1531 John Volkertsz Trimaker Dutch anabaptist leader, beheaded
1550 Pieter Coecke van Aelst Flemish painter, dies at 48
1562 Jan van Scorel Dutch painter/architect, dies
1598 Elbertus Leoninus Dutch lawyer/politician, dies at about 78

Other Events:
0963 Leo VIII elected Pope
1160 Jean Bodels "Jeu de St Nicholas" premieres in Arras
1196 Northern Dutch coast flooded, "Saint-Nicolaas Flood"
1240: Mongols take Kiev, Russia
1273: St. Thomas Aquinas ceases writing
1323: John of Nottingham and Robert Marshall of Leicester undertake the
murder of Edward II, King of England, by witchcraft
1362: Coronation of Pope Urban V
1424 Don Alfonso V of Aragon grants Barcelona the right to exclude Jews
1491: Marriage of Duchess Anne of Brittany to Charles VII of France
1492 Haiti discovered by Columbus, at Môle Saint Nicolas
1527 Pope Clemens VII fleas to Orvieto
1534 Quito, Ecuador founded by Spanish
1560: Charles IX becomes King of France




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