[GENERAL INFO] Medieval News Of The Day
Jerod Husvar
TODAY Version 3.1 09/01/90 Copyright 1986,88,90 By Patrick Kincaid
Good morning! It's 2:02am on Friday January 13, 1995.
This is the 13th day of the year, there are 352 days left.
Happy Birthday to...
In 1381 St. Colette, abbess, reformer of the Poor Clares
In 1674 Prosper Jolyot de CrＣillon, p較e, French tragic dramatist
On this day...
Old New Year
Ides of January
In 0533 Death of St. Remi, Apostle of France
In 1128 Templars founded
In 1327 Edward III proclaimed King of England
In 1330 Death of Frederick III, King of Germany
In 1382 Nicholas Flamel is said to have made silver thru Alchemical means
In 1414 45 Lollard rebels executed in England
In 1497 Death of St. Veronica
In 1522 Marriage of Louis II, King of Bohemia and Hungary,
to Maria of Austria
In 1559 Death of Menno Simons
In 1599 Edmund Spenser, poet (The Faerie Queene), dies at about 46
In 1609 "Augsburger Abendseitung", newspaper of Bavaria, founded
In 1610 Galileo discovers Callisto, 4th satellite of Jupiter
In 1625 Death of Jan Bruegel, painter
In 1630 Patent to Plymouth Colony issued
In 1631 Treaty of Barwalde
In 1649 Fall of the Bastille to the Fronde
Thought for the day...
When all else fails, read the directions.
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Jerod Husvar
TODAY Version 3.1 09/01/90 Copyright 1986,88,90 By Patrick Kincaid
Good morning! It's 4:15am on Saturday January 14, 1995.
This is the 14th day of the year, there are 351 days left.
Happy Birthday to...
In 1552 Alberico Gentili, Italian jurist,
a founder of international law
On this day...
In 0346 Death of St. Barba'shmin, Persian martyr
In 0936 Death of Rudolph, King of the Franks
In 1205 A frost begins in England that continues until March 22 1205
In 1208 Murder of Pierre de Castelnau, Papal Legate, which
touched off the Albigensian "Crusade"
In 1235 Death of St. Sava, Patron of Serbia
In 1237 Marriage of King Henry III of England to Eleanor of Provence
In 1331 Death of Odoric, missionary to China
In 1437 Mallard Day at Oxford College, England begun
In 1478 Novgorod surrenders to the Czar
In 1526 Treaty of Madrid
In 1559 Queen Elizabeth processes thru London
In 1526 Treaty of Madrid
In 1604 James I, King of England, meets with Puritan leaders
and the principal Bishops
In 1639 1st Connecticut constitution (Fundamental Orders) adopted
In 1643 The Count of Olivares dismissed as Spain's Chief Minister
In 1690 Clarinet is invented, in N rnberg, Germany
In 1699 Massachusetts holds day of fasting for
wrongly persecuting "witches"
Thought for the day...
If your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Charles Anderson
Jerod Husvar <jer...@Nimitz.mcs.kent.edu> wrote:
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> TODAY Version 3.1 09/01/90 Copyright 1986,88,90 By Patrick Kincaid
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> This is the 16th day of the year, there are 349 days left.
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> On this day...
> In 1599 Death of Edmund Spenser, poet
Pretty good trick for someone that died three days ago. Which is it?
-Dmitri
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/-Charles-Anderson-\ | I didn't know it was impossible when I did it.
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Jerod Husvar
TODAY Version 3.1 09/01/90 Copyright 1986,88,90 By Patrick Kincaid
Good morning! It's 3:23am on Tuesday January 17, 1995.
This is the 17th day of the year, there are 348 days left.
Happy Birthday to...
In 1463 Frederick III the Wise, elector of Saxony, protector of Luther
In 1501 Leonhard Fuchs, Germany, botanist (History of Plants)
In 1560 Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist, anatomist; named the potato
In 1600 Pedro CaldＳon de la Barca, Spanish poet, dramatist
On this day...
In 0395 Death of Theodosius; division of Roman Empire into East and West
(some call this the beginning of the Middle Ages)
In 0356 Death of St. Anthony the Abbot
In 1328 Louis IV crowned Holy Roman Emperor
In 1382 Nicolas Flamel claims to have created alchemy's Red Elixir
In 1411 Death of Jobst, King of Germany
In 1465 Johann Guntenberg granted a civil pension
for services to Mainz, Germany
In 1468 Gjergj Kastrioti Scanderbeg, Albanian rebel prince, dies
In 1549 Arrest of Thomas Seymour
In 1562 Edict of Toleration (Hugenots in France)
In 1595 Henry IV, King of France, declares his intention to war on Spain
In 1601 Treaty of Lyons
Thought for the day...
Travel is SO broadening! You meet such interesting people!
-Ghengis Khan
And remember...
Estrella War approacheth!
Jerod Husvar
TODAY Version 3.1 09/01/90 Copyright 1986,88,90 By Patrick Kincaid
Good morning! It's 2:50am on Wednesday January 18, 1995.
This is the 18th day of the year, there are 347 days left.
On this day...
In 0336 St. Mark becomes Pope
In 0697 Dance and Song Banquet last given by the Japanese Emperor
In 0888 Death of Charles III, "the Fat" King of the West Franks
In 1095 Death of St. Wulfstan
In 1256 Beheading of Marie, wife of King Louis II of Bavaria
In 1270 Death of St. Margaret of Hungary
In 1414 Death of John Stanley, first Lord of Manx
In 1514 Balboa returns to Darien from the Pacific
In 1535 Pizarro founds Lima, Peru
In 1574 Gilles Garnier burned as a werewolf in Dole, France
In 1610 Mansfredo and Fernando Donady denounced as being the
Devil's bankers, arrested, tortured and burned
In 1644 1st UFO sighting in America, by Pilgrims in Boston
In 1650 The arrest of the Prince of Conde
sets off a second Fronde Uprising
Thought for the day...
Political rectitude is exactly as comfortable as it sounds.
-Shoshana
Jerod Husvar
TODAY Version 3.1 09/01/90 Copyright 1986,88,90 By Patrick Kincaid
Good morning! It's 4:34am on Thursday January 19, 1995.
This is the 19th day of the year, there are 346 days left.
Happy Birthday to...
In 1544 Francis II, King of France
On this day...
In 1160 Kidnapping of the retired Japanese Emperor
In 1523 Ulrich Zwingli published his "67 Articles"
In 1576 Death of Hans Sachs, Meistersinger
In 1629 Death of Abbas, Shah of Persia
In 1630 Ben Jonsons' last comedy, "New Inn," presented and failed
In 1643 BRADDOCK DOWNS (Parliamentarians defeated by Cornish Royalists)
In 1648 Charles I, King of England, brought to trial
Thought for the day...
Kill for Peace!
-Frank Zappa
Jerod Husvar
TODAY Version 3.1 09/01/90 Copyright 1986,88,90 By Patrick Kincaid
Good morning! It's 2:40am on Friday January 20, 1995.
This is the 20th day of the year, there are 345 days left.
On this day...
Grandmother's Day/Babin Den (Bulgaria)
St. Agnes Eve
In 0250 Martyrdom of St. Fabian, Pope
In 0473 Death of St. Euthymius the Great
In 0842 Death of Theophilus, Emperor of Byzantium
In 1265 The first English Parliament called, by Simon de Montfort
In 1320 Coronation of Wladislaus, King of Poland
In 1479 Death of John II, King of Aragon
In 1500 Pinzon discovers Brazil
In 1503 An office is established in Spain to supervise trade
with the New World, and to monitor Columbus' expenses
In 1558 Calais taken by France
In 1612 Death of Rudolph II, Holy Roman Emperor
In 1613 Peace of Knared
In 1615 Portuguese defeated by the English off Swally, India
In 1616 Samuel de Champlain winters in a Huron village
In 1649 Trial of Charles I, King of England, opens
Thought for the day...
The Media? The Media, sir, will tell lies...as usual.
-a Vietnam Vet
Suze Hammond
JH> This is the 19th day of the year, there are 346 days left.
JH> On this day...
JH> In 1160 Kidnapping of the retired Japanese Emperor
Hey, finally we have documentation of a ruler retiring!
Of course, he turns out to be Japanese...
(Maybe all those Samurai personae have something after all?)
Just what did they call this retired emperor?
... Moreach