[Loch-ruadh] Today in History Jan 27

[STEVE K ROURKE]

Births

1546 Joachim III Frederick elector (Brandenburg)
1556 Abbas I "the Great", shah of Persia (1587-1629)
1592 Pierre de La Barre composer

Deaths

0098 Marius Cocceius Nerva Emperor of Rome (96-98), dies at about 67
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
1612 Maarten van Valckenborch Flemish painter, buried at about 77

Other Events

0672 St Vitalian ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0847 Sergius II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1302 Dante becomes a Florentine political exile
1343 Clement VI's bull "Unigenitus" officially ratified the belief that
Indulgences owed their potency to the Pope's dispensation of the accumulated
merit of the Church. (In 1518 Cardinal Thomas Cajetan accused German
reformer Martin Luther, 32, of challenging the validity of this Catholic
doctrine.)
1538 States of Gelderland accepts Willem van Kleef as viceroy
1556 Willem of Orange becomes knight of Guilder Flies
1593 Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno