[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History June 9

[STEVE K ROURKE]

Born:
0040: Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor

Deaths:
68 Nero Roman Emperor commits suicide
0597 Death of St. Columba (born 521), pioneer missionary to Scotland. From
the Isle of Iona, Columba evangelized the mainland of Scotland and
Northumbria.
1290: Death of Beatrice, Dante's inspiration
1502: Assassination of Astorre Manfredi of Faenza, and his brother
1525: Death of Florian Geyer, Bundschuh leader
1591: Euphame MacCalyan, daughter of Lord Cliftonhall, tried and found
guilty of witchcraft

Other Events:
1064: Coimbra is taken by Ferdinand, King of Castile
1156: Marriage of Friedrich "Barbarossa" King of Germany, to Beatrix of
Burgundy
1198: Otto IV chosen King of Germany
1247: Carpini, Papal Legate returning from the Mongols, reaches Kiev, Russia
1456 23rd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1480: Turks attack Malta
1534 Jacques Cartier 1st sails into mouth of St Lawrence River
1549 In England, Parliament established a uniformity of religious services
and the first Book of Common Prayer, as Anglicanism became the newly
established national faith.
1588: Duke of Medina Sidonia sails from Lisbon with the Spanish Armada




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