[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History July 25

[Steve K. Rourke]

Births:
1109 - King Afonso I of Portugal (d. 1185)
1336 - Albert, Count of Holland (d. 1404)
1404 - Philip I, Duke of Brabant (d. 1430)
1421 - Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (d. 1461)
1562 - Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord and samurai (d. 1611)

Deaths:
306 - Constantius Chlorus, Roman Emperor (b. 250)
1409 - King Martin I of Sicily
1492 - Pope Innocent VIII (b. 1432)

Other Events:
306 - Constantine I proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
864 - Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against
the Vikings
1261 - The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the
command of Michael VIII Palaeologus, thus re-establishing the Byzantine
Empire. The Byzantines also succeed in capturing Thessalonica and the rest
of the Latin Empire.
1536 - Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado found the City of
Santiago de Cali
1547 - Henry II (France) crowned
1567 - Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas,
modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela.
1593 - Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman
Catholicism.



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