[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History May 10

[Steve K. Rourke]

Born:
1536 Thomas Howard 4th duke of Norfolk, English Earl Marshall

Deaths:
0238 Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus the Thracian, Roman Emperor, murdered
0995 Boudouin bishop of Utrecht
1566 Leonhard Fuchs German botanist, dies at 65
1569 Juan the Avila Spanish minister/writer

Other Events:
1267 Vienna's church orders all Jews to wear a distinctive garb
1278 Jews of England imprisoned on charges of coining
1291 Scottish nobles recognize authority of English king Edward I
1427 Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland
1497 Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci leaves for 1st voyage to New World
1503 Columbus discovers Cayman Islands
1525 Church reformer John Pistorius caught in the Hague
1534 French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Newfoundland
1559 Scottish Protestants under John Knox uprise against queen-mother Mary
1570 Czar Ivan IV becomes Protestant






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