[Loch-ruadh] Today in History Jan 19

[STEVE K ROURKE]

Births

0570 Mohammed Islamic prophet (Koran)
1200 Dogen Kigen Japan, Zen teacher, 1st patriarch of the Japanese Soto
1544 Francis II de Valois-Angoulême king of France (1559-60)

Deaths

0639 Dagobert I king of Austrasia/Soissons/Burgundy/Neustrië, dies
1479 Johan II king of Aragón/Navarra, dies at 81
1547 Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, army commander/poet, beheaded at 29
1549 Barthout van Assendelft 1st land advocate of Holland, dies
1568 Death of Miles Coverdale, 80, publisher of the first printed English
Bible. He completed the translation of the Old Testament which William
Tyndale had left unfinished at his death in 1536.
1576 Hans Sachs composer, dies at 81
1591 Edmond Auger French jesuit (under Henri III), dies at about 60

Other Events

0379 Theodosius installed as co-emperor of East Roman Empire
0973 Pope Benedictus VI elected
1419 French city of Rouen surrenders to Henry V in Hundred Years War
1493 France cedes Roussillon & Cerdágne to Spain by treaty of Barcelona
1563 The Heidelberg Catechism was first published in Germany. Written by
Peter Ursinus and Caspar Olevianus, it comprised a balanced statement of
Calvinist tradition, and was soon after accepted by nearly all of the
Reformed churches in Europe.