[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History Sept 22

[Steve Rourke]

Births:
1515 - Anne of Cleves, queen consort of Henry VIII of England (d. 1557)
1547 - Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (d. 1590)
1593 - Matthäus Merian, Swiss engraver (d. 1650)

Deaths:
1253 - Dogen, Japanese Zen Buddhist (b. 1200)
1345 - Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Leicester (b. 1281)
1399 - Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1366)
1520 - Selim I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1465)
1554 - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer
1566 - Johannes Agricola, German protestant reformer (b. 1494)

Other Events:
66 - Emperor Nero creates the legion I Italica.
1236 - The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the
Sword in Battle of Siauliai.
1586 - The battle of Zutphen occurs.
1598 - Ben Jonson is indicted for manslaughter.