[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History May 25

[STEVE K ROURKE]

Born:
1494 Jacopo Pontormo II Italy, painter (Sepulture of Christ)
1550 Camillus de Lellis Italian soldier/monastery founder/saint

Deaths:
0615 Boniface IV Pope (608-15), dies
0709 Aldhelmus of Ealdhelm England, abbot/bishop/poet/saint, dies at about
69
0946 Edmund the Older king of Wessex/England (939-46), dies
1085 Gregory VII [Ildebrando] Pope (1073-85), dies
1125 Hendrik V last Salische German king, dies
1261 Alexander IV [Rinaldo dei conti di Segni] Pope (1254-61), dies
1510 Georges d'Amboise French cardinal/viceroy in North Italy, dies at 49
1555 Gemma Frisius Frisian geographer/astronomer, dies at 46

Other Events:
0585 -BC- 1st known prediction of a solar eclipse
1085 King Alfonso VI of Castily/León occupy Toledo on Moren and brought the
Moorish center of science into Christian hands
1241 1st attack on Jewish community of Frankfort-on-the-Main Germany
1521 Holy Roman Emperor Charles V pronounced Martin Luther an outlaw and
heretic for refusing to recant his teachings while at the Diet of Worms
(held the previous month).
1522 Emperor Karel I returns to Spain




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