[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History Oct 19

[Steve Rourke]

Births:
1276 - Prince Hisaaki, Japanese shogun (d. 1328)
1433 - Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher (d. 1499)
1562 - Archbishop George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1633)
1582 - Dmitry Ivanovich, Tsarevich (d. 1591)

Deaths:
727 - Saint Frideswide
1187 - Pope Urban III
1216 - King John
1432 - John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1392)
1587 - Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1541)

Other Events:
202 BC - The Battle of Zama results in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal.
439 - The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa.
1216 - King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his
nine-year-old son Henry.
1453 - The French recapture of Bordeaux brings the Hundred Years' War to a
close, with the English retaining only Calais on French soil.
1466 - The Thirteen Years' War ends with the Second Treaty of Torun. Gdansk
Pomerania and Prussia as a whole are incorporated into Poland; the Teutonic
Knights are allowed to rule its eastern part as Polish vassals.
1469 - Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella of Castile, a marriage that
paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single
country, Spain.
1512 - Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia).