[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History June 28

[Steve K. Rourke]

Burths:
1243 - Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (d. 1304)
1476 - Pope Paul IV (d. 1559)
1490 - Albert of Mainz, bishop and elector of Mainz (d. 1545)
1491 - King Henry VIII of England (d. 1547)
1503 - Giovanni della Casa, Italian poet (d. 1556)
1547 (baptism) - Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (d. 1599)
1577 - Peter Paul Rubens, Belgian painter (d. 1640)

Deaths:
767 - Pope Paul I
1175 - Andrei Bogolyubsky, Russian prince
1194 - Emperor Xiaozong of Song China (b. 1127)
1385 - Andronicus IV Palaeologus, Eastern Roman Emperor (b. 1348)
1389 - Prince Lazar Hrebeljanovic of Serbia (b. 1329)
1586 - Primoz Trubar, Slovenian protestant reformer (b. 1508)
1598 - Abraham Ortelius, Flemish-born cartographer (b. 1527)

Other Events:
1098 - Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul.
1243 - Innocent IV becomes pope.
1389 - Ottoman forces crush the Serbian armies in Kosovo, opening the way
for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe (see Vidovdan).
1519 - Charles V elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.



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