[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History July 21

[Steve K. Rourke]

Births:
1414 - Pope Sixtus IV (d. 1484)
1515 - Philip Neri, Italian churchman (d. 1595)

Deaths:
1403 - Henry Percy, English soldier (killed in battle)
1425 - Manuel II Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1350)

Other Events:
1298 - Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Falkirk - King Edward I of
England defeats Scottish rebels led by William Wallace.
1403 - Battle of Shrewsbury: King Henry IV of England defeats rebels to the
north of the county town of Shropshire, England
1568 - Eighty Years' War: Battle of Jemmingen - Fernando Álvarez de Toledo,
Duke of Alva defeats Louis of Nassau



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