[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History Dec. 19

[Steve Rourke]

Born:
1036 Su Tung-p'o China, poet/essayist/painter/calligrapher
1498 Andreas Osiander Germany, Protestant Reformation theologist

Deaths:
0401 Anastasius I Bishop of Rome (399-401), dies
1075: Death of Edith, wife of Edward "the Confessor," King of England
1154: Death of Stephen, King of England
1370 Urban V [Guillaume de Grimoard] 1st Avignon Pope (1362-70), dies

Other Events:
0401 St Anastasius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0960: Reconstruction of Kyoto, Japan, begun after a fire
1055 Seldjuken under Toghril Beg occupy Baghdad
1154 King Henry II of England crowned
1406: Coronation of Pope Gregory XII
1551 Dutch west coast hit by hurricane
1562 Battle at Dreux: Anne de Montmorency & huguenots under Condé captured



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