[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History March 27

[Steve K. Rourke]

Born:
1416 Antonio Squarcialupi composer
1554 Everhardus van Bronchorst Dutch lawyer

Deaths:
0922 Al-Hallaj al-Mughith-al-Hsayn Mansur Persian mystic, beheaded at 64
0965 Arnulf I the Elder/the Great, count of Flanders (918-65), dies
1211 Sancho I King of Portugal (1185-1211), dies at 56
1378 Gregory XI [Pierre R the Beaufort], last French Pope (1370-78), dies
1472 Janus Pannonius Hungarian poet/translator, dies at 37
1482 Maria duchess of Burgundy/countess of Holland, dies at 25

Other Events:
1513 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León sights Florida
1599 Robert Devereux becomes Lieutenant-General of Ireland



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