[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History July 7

[Steve K. Rourke]

Births:
1053 - Emperor Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1129)
1119 - Emperor Sutoku of Japan (d. 1164)
1586 - Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English statesman (d. 1646)

Deaths:
1129 - Emperor Shirakawa, emperor of Japan (b. 1053)
1304 - Pope Benedict XI (b. 1240)
1307 - King Edward I of England (b. 1239)
1537 - Madeleine de Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (b. 1520)
1572 - King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland (b. 1520)
1573 - Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect (b. 1507)

Other Events:
1456 - A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her
death.
1534 - European colonization of the Americas: First known exchange between
Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in New Brunswick.
1543 - French troops invade Luxembourg.



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