Events & Holidays In July - 11

Flemish Community Holiday (Belgium)

Guldensporenslag (Belgium)

La Fete de la Magdalene (France)

Revolution Day (Mongolia)

St. Rosalia Day (Italy)

World Population Day (International)

1274  On this day in history birth of robert Bruce, King of Scotland (1306-29)   

1366  On this day in history birth of anne of Bohemia, consort of Richard II of England (d. 1394)   

1540  On this day in history birth of adolf van Nassau, German son of Willem the Rich/Juliana of Stolberg   

1558  On this day in history birth of robert Greene, Elizabethan dramatist (Friar Bacon)   

1561  On this day in history birth of luis de Góngora, Spanish poet (d. 1627)   

1603  On this day in history birth of kenelm Digby, English privateer (d. 1665)   

1628  Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord (d. 1701) was born on this day in history.   

1657  Frederik I, King of Prussia (1701-13) was born on this day in history.   

0155  Pius I, bishop of Rome (approx 140-155)/saint/martyr, dies on this day in history.   

0472  On this day in history death of anthemius, Emperor of the Western Roman Empire   

0937  Death of King Rudolph II of Burgundy on this day in history.   

0969  On this day in history death of olga of Kiev   

1174  On this day in history amalrik I, [Morri], French King of Jerusalem, dies   

1183  On this day in history death of otto I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria   

1302  Jacques de Châtillon, count of Saint-Pol/gov of Flaanders, dies on this day in history.   

1382  Nicholas van Oresme, French philosopher/bishop of Lisieux, dies at 62 on this day in history.