[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History January 4

[steverourke at charter.net]

Different Wenceslaus. The one known as Good King Wenceslaus was born in 907 in what is now known as Prague, Czechoslovakia.

> Did Wenceslaus become king?  You know, the Christmas song Good King 
> Wenceslaus?
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> Gwen
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> >From: <steverourke at charter.net>
> >Reply-To: "Shire of Loch Ruadh, Kingdom of Ansteorra, SCA,Inc." 
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> >To: <loch-ruadh at ansteorra.org>
> >Subject: [Loch-Ruadh] Today in History January 4
> >Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 23:25:32 -0600
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> >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)
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> >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
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> >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
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