[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History July 31

[Steve K. Rourke]

Births:
1143 - Emperor Nijo of Japan (d. 1165)
1396 - Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1467)
1527 - Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, (d. 1576)
1598 - Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor and architect (d. 1654)

Deaths:
855 - Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Muslim Jurisprudent (b. 780)
1099 - El Cid, Spanish warrior (b. 1044)
1108 - King Philip I of France (b. 1052)
1396 - William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1342)
1508 - Na'od, Emperor of Ethiopia (killed in battle) (b. 1494)
1547 - King Francis I of France (b. 1494)
1556 - Ignatius Loyola, Spanish priest and founder of the Jesuits

Other Events:
781 - The oldest recorded eruption of Mt. Fuji (Traditional Japanese date:
July 6, 781)
1009 - Pietro Boccapecora becomes Pope Sergius IV
1423 - Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant - The French army is defeated
at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne.
1498 - On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus
becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
1588 - The Spanish Armada is spotted off the coast of England.



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