[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History Dec 7

Steve Rourke steverourke at charter.net
Wed Dec 6 21:00:24 PST 2006


Born:
0521: St. Columba (Colum Cille) 
0967 Abu Sa'id ibn Aboa al-Chair Persian mystic
1542 Mary Stuart Queen of Scots (1560-1587)
1557 Girolamo Trombeti composer
1598 Giovanni Bernini Italy, baroque sculptor (St Teresa in Ecstasy)

Deaths:
0043 BC: Assassination of Cicero
0983 Otto II the Red German king/emperor (973-83), dies at about 28
1254 Innocent IV [Sinibaldo dei Fieschi] Pope (1243-54), dies
1383 Wenceslaus duke of Brabant, dies

Other Events:
0036 -BC- Earliest known Mayan inscription, Stela 2 at Chiapa de Corzo
0043 -BC- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman writer, gets his head & right hand
chopped off by Mark Antony's soldiers
0185 Emperor Lo-Yang, China sees supernova (MSH15-52?)
0283 St Eutychian ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1354 Margaretha van Bavarian's son earl Willem V signs peace treaty
1515: Meeting and alliance between Pope Leo X and Francois I in Bologna
1550: Coronation of Barbara as Queen of Poland




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