[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History June 22

[Steve K. Rourke]

Births:

Deaths:
431 - Paulinus of Nola, Roman poet
1276 - Pope Innocent V
1429 - Ghiyath al-Kashi, Persian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1380)
1535 - John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester (executed)

Other Events:
217 BC - Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the
Great of the Seleucid kingdom
168 BC - Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat and
capture Macedonian King Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian War
1593 - Battle of Sisak: Slovene - Croat troops defeat the Turks



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