[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History July 16

[Steve K. Rourke]

Births:
1194 - Clare of Assisi, Italian follower of Francis of Assisi (d. 1253)
1486 - Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter (d. 1530)

Deaths:
1324 - Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (b. 1267)
1342 - King Charles I of Hungary
1546 - Anne Askew, English protestant (burned at the stake) (b. 1521)
1557 - Anne of Cleves, fourth wife of Henry VIII of England (b. 1515)

Other Events:
622 - The Prophet Mohammed begins his Hijra from Mecca to Medina. This marks
the beginning of the Islamic calendar.



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