[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History May 4

[STEVE K ROURKE]

Born:
1006 Abd-Allah Ansari Persian mystic/poet (Monadjat)

Deaths:
1594 Paul Buys Grand Pensionary of Holland, dies at 62

Other Events:
1256 Pope Alexander IV founded the Roman Catholic religious order of the
Augustine Hermits.
1303 Flemings conquers Middelburg
1471 Battle of Tewkesbury - King Edward IV vs Ex-queen Margaretha
1493 Pope Alexander VI issued "Inter caeterea II," which divided possession
of the New World discoveries by Spain and Portugal along a longitudinal line
running 250 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands.
1494 Christopher Columbus lands in Jamaica
1540 Venice & Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople
1572 Veere sides with Geuzen