[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History Dec 2

[Steve Rourke]

Births:
1578 - Agostino Agazzari, Italian composer and music theorist (d. 1640)

Deaths:
1348 - Emperor Hanazono of Japan (b. 1297)
1381 - John of Ruysbroeck, Flemish mystic
1463 - Archduke Albert VI of Austria (b. 1418)
1469 - Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1416)
1515 - Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general and statesman (b. 1453)
1547 - Hernán Cortés, Spanish explorer and conqueror (b. 1485)
1552 - Francis Xavier, Spanish Catholic missionary (b. 1506)
1594 - Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer (b. 1512)

Other Events:
1001: Danish settlers in England massacred
1409 - The University of Leipzig opens.
1431: Henry VI, King of England, crowned King of France at Paris