[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History Dec. 27

[Steve Rourke]

Born:
1194: Frederick II, German Emperor
1546 Joachim III Frederick elector (Brandenburg)
1556 Abbas I "the Great", shah of Persia (1587-1629)
1571: Johannes Kepler, discovered planets travel in eliptical orbits.
1592 Pierre de La Barre composer

Deaths:
0098 Marius Cocceius Nerva Emperor of Rome (96-98), dies at about 67
0388: Death of St. Fabiola
0672 Vitalianus pope (657-72)/saint, dies
0847 Sergius II pope (844-47), dies
1164 Abraham ibn Ezra poet/philosopher, dies
1540 Angela Merici Italian monk/monastery, dies
1565 Robrecht de Berghes prince-bishop of Liege (1557-64), dies
1585: Death of Pierre de Ronsard, poet


Other Events:
0537: Justinian dedicates Hagia Sophia
0672 St Vitalian ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0847 Sergius II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1253: William of Rubruck and Bartholomew of Cremona arrive at the Court of
Mangu Khan of the Mongols
1302 Dante becomes a Florentine political exile
1512: The laws of Burgos give New World natives legal protection against
abuse and authorize Negro slavery.
1538 States of Gelderland accepts Willem van Kleef as viceroy
1556 Willem of Orange becomes knight of Guilder Flies
1558: Queen Elizabeth of England issues a Proclaimation forbidding any other
kind of worship other that that used at the close of the reign of Henry VIII
1587: Coronation of Sigsimund III as King of Poland
1593 Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno





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