[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History Dec. 20

[Steve Rourke]

Born:
1539 Paul Melissus [Paul Schede] German poet/composer
1579: John Fletcher, Elizabethan dramatist
1594 Giovanni Battista Gagliano composer

Deaths:
0069 Aulus Vitellius Roman commandant of Rhine & 7th emperor, murdered
0910 Alfonso III de Great king of Asturias, dies
1073 Domingo Spanish monastery founder/abbot/saint, dies
1355: Death of Stephen Urosh IV, Emperor of the Serbs
1590: Death of Ambrose Pare, surgeon

Other Events:
0069 General Vespasianus occupies Rome
1046 Synod of Sutri: German king Henry III removes Popes Gregory VI,
Benedictus IX & Silvester III & names Bishop Siutger, Pope Clemens II
1192: Capture of Richard I, "the Lion Hearted," King of England, by Austria
1334: Election of Pope Benedict XII
1448 Pope Nicolaas V named Utrechts bishop Rudolf of Diepholt, cardinal
1566: Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, tries tenderness towards the Protestants
1585 English fleet & Earl Robert Dudley van Leicester reach Vlissingen



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