[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History July 10

[Steve K. Rourke]

Births:
1419 - Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (d. 1471)
1452 - King James III of Scotland (d. 1488)
1509 - John Calvin, French religious reformer (d. 1564)
1592 - Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (d. 1660)

Deaths:
138 - Hadrian, Roman Emperor (b. 76)
1099 - El Cid, of Castile (b. 1044)
1103 - King Eric I of Denmark
1298 - King Ladislaus IV of Hungary (b. 1262)
1460 - Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English military leader
(b. 1402)
1480 - King René I of Naples (b. 1410)
1559 - King Henry II of France (b. 1519)
1584 - William I of Orange (b. 1533)
1590 - Archduke Charles II of Austria (b. 1540)
1594 - Paolo Bellasio, Italian composer (b. 1554)

Other Events:
48 BC - Battle of Dyrrhachium, Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to
Pompey in Macedonia.
1212 - The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the
city to the ground.
1410 - Battle of Grunwald, allied forces of the Kingdom of Poland and the
Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the army of the Teutonic Order.
1584 - William I of Orange was assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland by
Balthasar Gérard.



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