[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History July 19

Jacklyn Crisp jcrisp415 at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 19 11:08:04 PDT 2006


Enquiring minds want to know what Lady Jane Grey did
to be replaced as Queen of England after only 9
days??? Must have been realy bad at the job.
Rose

--- "Steve K. Rourke" <steverourke at charter.net> wrote:

> Births:
> 
> Deaths:
> 514 - Symmachus, Italian Pope (b. 498)
> 931 - Uda, Emperor of Japan (b. 867)
> 1374 - Petrarch, Italian poet (b. 1304)
> 1415 - Philippa of Lancaster, wife of John I of
> Portugal (plague) (b. 1359)
> 1543 - Lady Mary Boleyn, mistress of King Henry VIII
> of England
> 
> Other Events:
> 711 - Muslim forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the
> Visigoths led by their
> king Roderic.
> 1333 - Battle of Halidon Hill: the final battle of
> the Wars of Scottish
> Independence.
> 1544 - The Siege of Boulogne began.
> 1553 - Lady Jane Grey is replaced by Mary I of
> England as Queen of England
> after having that title for just nine days.
> 1588 - The Spanish Armada was sighted in the English
> Channel.
> 
> 
> 
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