[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History July 26

[Steve K. Rourke]

Births:
1030 - Stanislaus of Szczepanów, St. Stanislaw (d. 1079)

Deaths:
796 - Offa, King of Mercia
811 - Nicephorus I, Byzantine Emperor (killed in battle)
1380 - Emperor Komyo of Japan (b. 1322)
1471 - Pope Paul II (b. 1417)
1592 - Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (b. 1524)

Other Events:
657 - Battle of Siffin
811 - Battle of Pliska; Byzantine emperor Nicephorus I is slain, his heir
Stauracius is seriously wounded
1139 - Afonso, then a count, is proclaimed first king of Portugal and
declares independence from Castile
1469 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Edgecote Moor - Pitting Richard Neville,
16th Earl of Warwick against those of King Edward IV. 1581 - Plakkaat van
Verlatinghe (Oath of Abjuration). The declaration of independence of the
northern Low Countries from the Spanish king, Philip II.



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