[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History

[PBW]

> Due to the change in servers our old archives are now gone and the sites I
> originally used to get the info seem to be no longer in existence, I'm
> afraid I will have to temporarily stop posting the daily history.
>
> As soon as I am able to find new sources for the info I will start posting
> and get things caught up again.
>
> Domhnall

I dont know what pages Domhall used for his information but here is what I 
found today. Domhnall is this is similer to what you used? Let me know and I 
will be glad to give you the webpage so you can keep up the history lessons! 
I know I found them intresting enough to research more on several topics!

Magdalia/Pook

Birthdates which occurred on May 25:
1494 Jacopo Pontormo II Italy, painter (Sepulture of Christ)
1550 Camillus de Lellis Italian soldier/monastery founder/saint

Deaths which occurred on May 25:
0615 Boniface IV Pope (608-15), dies
0709 Aldhelmus of Ealdhelm England, abbot/bishop/poet/saint, dies at about 
69
0946 Edmund the Older king of Wessex/England (939-46), dies
1085 Gregory VII [Ildebrando] Pope (1073-85), dies
1125 Hendrik V last Salische German king, dies
1261 Alexander IV [Rinaldo dei conti di Segni] Pope (1254-61), dies
1510 Georges d'Amboise French cardinal/viceroy in North Italy, dies at 49
1555 Gemma Frisius Frisian geographer/astronomer, dies at 46



On this day May 25...
0585 -BC- 1st known prediction of a solar eclipse
1085 King Alfonso VI of Castily/León occupy Toledo on Moren
1241 1st attack on Jewish community of Frankfort-on-the-Main Germany
1522 Emperor Karel I returns to Spain