[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History August 14

[Steve K. Rourke]

Births:
1297 - Emperor Hanazono, Emperor of Japan (d. 1348)
1473 - Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, daughter of George, Duke of
Clarence (d. 1541)
1575 - Robert Hayman, English-born poet (d. 1629)
1586 - William Hutchinson, Rhode Island colonist (d. 1642)
1599 - Méric Casaubon, English classical scholar (d. 1671)

Deaths:
582 - Tiberius II Constantine, Byzantine Emperor
1167 - Rainald of Dassel, Archbishop of Cologne
1204 - Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun (b. 1182)
1390 - John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (b. 1364)
1430 - Philip I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1404)
1433 - King John I of Portugal (b. 1357)
1464 - Pope Pius II (b. 1405)
1573 - Saito Tatsuoki, Japanese warlord (b. 1548)

Other Events:
1040 - King Duncan I of Scotland is killed in battle against his cousin and
successor Macbeth.
1183 - Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku
and the three sacred treasures and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit
by the Minamoto clan. (Traditional Japanese date: Twenty-fifth Day of the
Seventh Month of the Second Year of Juei).
1385 - 1383-1385 Crisis: Castilians are defeated by Portuguese at the Battle
of Aljubarrota.
1598 - Irish under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, destroy English force at
the Battle of the Yellow Ford.



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