[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History July 3

[Steve K. Rourke]

Births:
1423 - King Louis XI of France (d. 1483)
1442 - Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500)
1511 - Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect (d. 1574)
1530 - Claude Fauchet, French historian (d. 1601)
1567 - Samuel de Champlain, French explorer (d. 1635)

Deaths:
683 - St. Leo II, pope
1570 - Aonio Paleario, Italian humanist

Other Events:
324 - Battle of Adrianople Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to
Byzantium
533 - Battle of Ad Decimum: Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals
near Carthage.
987 - Hugh Capet was crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian
dynasty which ruled France till the French Revolution in 1792.
1250 - Louis IX of France is captured by Baibars' Mamluk army at the Battle
of Fariskur while he is in Egypt conducting the Seventh Crusade; he later
has to ransom himself



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