[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History Sept 6

[Steve K. Rourke]

Births:
1535 - Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian (d. 1612)

Deaths:
972 - Pope John XIII
1511 - Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1481)

Other Events:
3114 BC - On this date in the proleptic Julian calendar the current era in
the Maya Long Count Calendar started.
394 - Battle of the Frigidus: The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I
defeats and kills the pagan usurper Eugenius and his Frankish magister
militum Arbogast.
1522 - The Victoria, one of the surviving ships of Ferdinand Magellan's
expedition, returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first
ship to circumnavigate the world.



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