[Loch-ruadh] Today in History Jan 13

[STEVE K ROURKE]

Births

1381 St Colette abbess/reformer (Poor Clares)
1406 Matteo Palmieri Italian writer (Della vita civile)
1505 Joachim II Hector ruler (Brandenburg)
1596 Jan J Goyen Dutch landscape painter

Deaths

0533 Remigius van Reims 1st bishop of Reims (459-533)/saint, dies about 96
0858 Aethelwolf king of Wessex (Battle at Aclea), dies
0888 Charles III the Fat One, King of Franconia/Roman emperor, dies
1049 Derrick IV Count of Holland (1039-49), dies in battle
1177 Hendrik Jasomirgott Babenberg Duke of Austria, dies
1307 Arnoud van Foreest Dom deacon of Utrecht, dies
1330 Frederick (III) the Handsome, duke of Austrian/German anti-king, dies
1488 Hermann Vischer "the Old", buried
1599 Edmund Spenser poet (Faerie Queene), dies at about 46

Other Events

0888 Duke Odo becomes king of West-France
1099 Crusaders set fire to Mara Syria
1501 The world's first hymnbook printed in the vernacular was published in
Prague. It contained 89 hymns in the Czech language. (The name of the hymnal
is no longer known, since the only surviving copy lacks the title page
1547 Earl Henry Howard of Surrey sentenced to death
1559 Elizabeth I crowned queen of England in Westminster Abbey