Historical Events In July - 22
Tuesday, 27 January 2026
0259 Dionysius elected as bishop of Rome, succeeding Sixtus II. 

0260 In this year, St Dionysius starts his reign as Catholic Pope 

1035 Robert II/I, Duke of Normandy, dies. 

1099 inaugural Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the inaugural Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem. 

1298 English defeat Scots at Battle of Falkirk 

1306 King Phillip the Fair, orders expulsion of Jews out of France 

1387 French Ackerman, Ghent rebel/leader of Reisers, murdered at about 57 

1456 Battle at Nandorfehervar (Belgrade): Hungarian army under Janos Hunyadi beats sultan Murad II. 

1461 Charles VII king of France (1422-61), dies at 58. 

1461 Charles VII, King of France (1422-61), dies at 58. 

1477 Adolf van Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen, dies in battle at 39. 

1478 King Philip I of Spain is born 

1478 Philip I, (the Handsome), 1st Habsburg King of Spain (1504-06). 

1484 Battle of Lochmaben Fair. 

1489 "Tractate Niddah" a talmudic edition, 1st printed. 

1497 Francesco Botticini, Italian painter, dies at about 52 

1499 Neithart Fox, [Jonker Fox], German passage leader, slain in battle. 

1515 Anna of Bohemia (12) marries Karel van Ferdinand of Austria. 

1525 Richard Wingfield, English diplomat. 

1535 Christians captured in Tunis in uprising against Adm Barbarossa 

1582 Willem van Orange moves from Antwerp to Delft. 

1587 2nd English colony established on Roanoke Island off NC. 

1587 English settlers establish a colony on Roanoke Island off North Carolina. 

1587 2nd English colony forms on Roanoke Island off NC 

1597 Virgilio Mazzocchi, composer 

1621 Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of Shaftesbury/minister (1660-73). 

1627 English fleet under George Villiers lands on the Rhe [OS=June 12]. 

1632 Foundation laid in Madrid for Buen Retiro-palace for king Philip IV. 

1633 Trijntje Keever, presumed to have been the tallest woman ever (b.1616). 

1635 Pietro Antonio Tamburini, composer, dies at 45. 

1642 Johann Quirsfeld, composer. 

1645 Gaspar de Guzman, premier of Spain (1621-43), dies at 58. 

1647 Margaretha M Alacoque, French mystic/saint. 

1648 10000 Jews of Polannoe murdered in Chmielnick massacre 

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