[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History Dec. 31

[Steve Rourke]

Born:
1491: French explorer Jacques Cartier (some sources 1499)
1514: Vesalius
1517 Gioseffo Zarlino composer
1573 Ambrosius Metzger composer
1573 Giulio Cesare Monteverdi composer


Deaths:
0192: Commodus, Roman emperor, strangled by a professional wrestler
0335: Death of St. Sylvester I, Pope
1384: Death of Wycliffe, at Lutterworth, England
1502: Caesare Borgia executes Oliverotto da Fermo and Vitellozzo Vitelli
1561 Menno Simonsz Dutch priest/vicar (Foundation Book), dies
1580 Hendrik Portuguese cardinal/epilepticus/regent (1578-80), dies


Other Events:
0314 St Silvester I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0406: Vandals, Alans and Sueves invade Roman Gaul
0876 Charles becomes king of Italy
1097: Darak fails to break the Crusaders' Siege of Antioch
1492: Jews are expelled from Sicily.
1504 By treaty of Lyons, French cede Naples to Ferdinand of Aragon
1531 Kings Ferdinand of Austria/János Zápolyai of Hungary accept each other
1539: Henry VIII, King of England, meets Anne of Cleves, his 4th wife
1560 Spanish king Philip II marries Elisabeth van Valois
1578 Battle of Gembloers
1596 Catholic League disjoins
1600: British East India Company chartered




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