[Loch-Ruadh] Today in HIstory July 17

[Steve K. Rourke]

Births:
1487 - Ismail I, Shah of Persia (d. 1524)

Deaths:
521 - Magnus Felix Ennodius, bishop and Latin poet (b. 474)
924 - King Edward the Elder of England
1070 - Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders (b. 1030)
1086 - King Canute IV of Denmark
1105 - Rashi, French rabbi and commentator (b. 1040)
1453 - John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, English military leader
1531 - Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese military commander (b. 1484)
1566 - Bartolomé de Las Casas, Spanish priest (b. 1484)
1571 - Georg Fabricius, German poet and historian (b. 1516)
1588 - Sinan, Ottoman architect (b. 1489)

Other Events:
180 - Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa executed for being
Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the
world.
1048 - Damasus II appointed Pope.
1203 - Fourth Crusade captures Constantinople by assault; the Byzantine
emperor Alexius III Angelus flees from his capital into exile.
1453 - Hundred Years' War: The French under Jean Bureau utterly defeat the
English under the Earl of Shrewsbury, who is killed in the Battle of
Castillon at Gascony



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