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  Adolf van Nassau, German son of Willem the Rich/Juliana of Stolberg was born on this day in history.  

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

1561  Luis de Góngora, Spanish poet (d. 1627) was born on this day in history.  

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

1628  On this day in history birth of tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord (d. 1701)  

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  Death of Anthemius, Emperor of the Western Roman Empire on this day in history.  

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  Death of Otto I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria on this day in history.  

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.