[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History March 6

[STEVE K ROURKE]

Born:
1405 Johan II King of Castille
1459 Jacob Fugger German banker/merchant
1475 Michelangelo Buonarroti painter/sculptor/architect (David, Pièta)
1483 Francesco Guicciardini Italy, attorney/president of Romagna
1492 Jean Luis Vives Spanish theory/humanist/reformer
1495 Luigi Alamanni Italian poet (Opere Toscane, La Coltivazione)

Deaths:
0766 Chrodegang church reformer/bishop of Mainz, dies at about 50
1583 Zacharias Ursinus German theologist (Heidelberger), dies at 48

Other Events:
1079 Omar ibn Ibrahim al-Chajjam completes Jalali-calendar
1205 Aken, [Philips van Zwaben], crowned Roman-Catholic German King
1323 Treaty of Paris
1447 Tommaso Parentucelli succeeds Pope Eugene IV as Nicolas V
1460 Treaty of Alcacovas-Portugal gives Castile Canary Islands for West
Africa
1521 Magellan discovers Guam
1579 Veluwe joins Union of Utrecht
1590 Earl Mauritius conquerors Breda "turfschip of Breda"