[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History April 22

[Steve K. Rourke]

Born:
1451 Isabella I of Castile, Queen of Spain, patron of Columbus

Deaths:


Other Events:
296 St Gaius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
536 St Agapitus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
687 -BC- Chinese record a meteor shower in Lyra
1145 19th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1500 Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers Brazil
1509 Henry VIII ascended to throne of England
1529 Spain & Portugal divide eastern hemisphere in Treaty of Saragosa



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