[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History Nov 17

[Steve Rourke]

Births:
9 - Vespasian, Roman Emperor (d. 79)
1502 - Atahualpa, last emperor of the Inca (d. 1533)
1503 - Agnolo Bronzino, Italian painter (d. 1572)
1576 - Roque Gonzales, Paraguayan missionary (d. 1628)
1587 - Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet (d. 1679)

Deaths:
375 - Valentinian I, Roman Emperor (b. 321)
594 - Gregory of Tours, bishop and historian (b. c.539)
641 - Emperor Jomei of Japan (b. 593)
680 - Hilda of Whitby (b. 614)
1231 - Elisabeth of Hungary, daughter of Andrew II of Hungary (b. 1207)
1326 - Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. 1285)
1494 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher (b. 1463)
1558 - Mary I of England (b. 1516)
1558 - Reginald Cardinal Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1500)
1562 - Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France (b. 1518)
1592 - John III of Sweden (b. 1537)
1600 - Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander (b. 1542)

Other Events:
1292 - (O.S.) John Balliol becomes King of Scotland.
1558 - Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded
by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England.