[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History January 4

[steverourke at charter.net]

Born:
1334 Amadeus VI [Green Earl], Earl of Savoye
1567 Franciscus Aguilon physicist/mathematician/jesuit/architect
1579 Willem Teellinck Dutch theologist/vicar
1581 Bishop James Ussher Archbishop of Armagh, calculated Earth's beginning (November 23, 4004 BC)


Deaths:
0041 Caligula murdered
0838 Babak Persian social/religious reformer, martyred
1254: William of Rubrick is granted an audience with the KaKhan of the Mongols
1584 Tobias Stimmer Swiss painter/cartoonist/playwright, dies at 44


Other Events:
0274 St Eutychian begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0536: Two monks return to Constantinople with the secret of the manufacture of silk
0871 Battle at Reading Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army
1357 Flemish Earl Louis & Luxembourg Duke Wenceslaus sign peace treaty
1493 Columbus left new world on return from 1st voyage
1519 1st Altenburger sermon (Luther & Karl von Miltitz)
1570 Spanish viceroy Alva banishes Zutphen City's only physician, Joost Sweiter, "because he is a Jew