[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History July 24

[Steve K. Rourke]

Births:

Deaths:
1115 - Matilda, Countess of Tuscany (b. 1046)
1129 - Shirakawa, Emperor of Japan (b. 1053)
1394 - Alexander Stewart, 1st Earl of Buchan, Scottish prince (b. 1343)
1568 - Prince Don Carlos of Spain (b. 1545)
1594 - John Boste, Catholic saint and martyr (b. 1544)

Other Events:
311 - The end of the fifth year of reign of Constantine the Great
1132 - Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily.
1216 - Cencio Savelli is consecrated as Pope Honorius III
1411 - Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles on Scottish soil.
1487 - Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands strike against ban on foreign
beer
1534 - French explorer Jacques Cartier planted a cross on the Gaspé
Peninsula and took possession of the territory in the name of the King
Francis I of France.
1567 - Mary Queen of Scots is deposed and replaced by her 1 year old son
King James VI.



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