[Fwd: Medieval News of the Day - Oct 18]

[Brian Matthews <wilthain@handy-man.com>]

Poster: Brian Matthews <wilthain@handy-man.com>



pyotr filipivich wrote:

>  Good morning!  It's 10:18am on Saturday  October 18, 1997.
>  This is the 291st day of the year, there are 74 days left.
>
>  Happy Birthday to...
>     In 1547 Justus Lipsius, humanist, classical scholar, writer
>     In 1632 Luca Giordano, Napoli, painter
>
>  On this day...
>     St. Luke's Day
>     Horn Faire, at Charlton, in Kent, England
>     In 0614 France gets a constitution
>     In 0629 Death of Clotaire II, King of France
>     In 0707 Death of Pope John VII
>     In 0768 Coronation of Charlemagne and his brother Carloman,
>             as co-rulers of the Franks
>     In 1097 The 1st Crusade lays siege to Antioch
>     In 1417 Death of Pope Gregory XII
>     In 1511 Death of Philippe de Commynes, historian
>     In 1511 William Sweeting and John Brewster burnt for heresy
>     In 1526 Death of Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon, in Florida
>     In 1534 "Affair of the Placards"
>     In 1503 Death of Pope Pius III
>     In 1622 Louis XIII lays siege to Montpellier
>     In 1636 New Book of Canons ordered used in Anglican Churches
>
> --
> pyotr filipivich, sometimes owl, Nikolai Petrovich in the SCA.
> "Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes."
> (If you can read this, you're overeducated.)



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                            Wilthain Westbram
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