[Loch-Ruadh] today in History July 20

[Steve K. Rourke]

Births:
810 - Imam Bukhari, Muslim scholar and compiler of Hadith (d. 870)
1304 - Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet (d. 1374)
1537 - Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (d. 1604)

Deaths:
985 - Pope Boniface VII
1031 - King Robert II of France (b. 972)
1156 - Emperor Toba of Japan (1103)
1160 - Peter Lombard, French theologian
1320 - King Oshin of Armenia (b. 1282)
1351 - Margaretha Ebner, German visionary (b. 1291)
1387 - Robert IV of Artois, Count of Eu (poisoned) (b. 1356)
1398 - Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, heir to the throne of England (b.
1374)
1453 - Enguerrand de Monstrelet, French chronicler
1454 - King John II of Castile (b. 1405)
1524 - Claude of France, wife of Louis XII of France (b. 1499)

Other Events:
514 - Pope Hormisdas assumes the papacy of the Roman Catholic Church.
1304 - Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle - King Edward
I of England takes the last rebel stronghold of the war.
1402 - Ottoman-Timurid Wars: Battle of Ankara - Timur, ruler of Timurid
Empire, defeated forces of the Ottoman Empire sultan Bayezid I



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