On this day 11th July in 911 - Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy. 1156 - Siege of Shirakawa-den in Japan. 1244 - Chwarizneense Turken defeats Jerusalem 1302 - Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag in Dutch) near Kortrijk, Belgium. Flemish coalition defeat French army 1346 - Charles IV of Luxembourg is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. 1347 - Heir to the Bohemian throne elected German anti-king Charles IV 1376 - English Good Parliament meets 1405 - Chinese fleet commander Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time. 1423 - Arnold van Egmont becomes Duke of Gelre 1476 - Giuliano della Rovere is appointed bishop of Coutances. 1525 - Trial against heretic John Pistorius at The Hague 1533 - Pope Clement VII excommunicates Englands King Henry VIII 1576 - Martin Frobisher sights Greenland. 1588 - French king Henri III accept demands of Catholic League 1616 - Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec. 1635 - Armies of Savoye/Mantua/Parma occupy Milan 1673 - Netherlands & Denmark sign defense treaty 1690 - Battle of Drogheda Boyne (William III beat deposed James II) 1969 - David Bowie releases Space Oddity 1969 - Rolling Stones release Honky Tonk Woman Births 1274 - Robert Bruce, King of Scots (1306-29) 1366 - Anne of Bohemia, consort of Richard II of England (d. 1394) 1540 - Adolf van Nassau, German son of Willem the Rich/Juliana of Stolberg 1558 - Robert Greene, Elizabethan dramatist (Friar Bacon) 1561 - Luis de Góngora, Spanish poet (d. 1627) 1603 - Kenelm Digby, English privateer (d. 1665)937 - King Rudolph II of Burgundy Deaths 937 - King Rudolph II of Burgundy 969 - Olga of Kiev 1174 - Amalrik I, [Morri], French King of Jerusalem 1183 - Otto I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria 1302 - Jacques de Châtillon, count of Saint-Pol/gov of Flaanders 1302 - Pierre Flote, French 1st legist/chancellor of king Philip IV 1302 - Robert II of Artois, French soldier (b. 1250) 1382 - Nicholas van Oresme, French philosopher/bishop of Lisieux, 62 1535 - Joachim I Nestor, ruler (Brandenburg), 51 1540 - Jan Szapolyai, anti-king of Hungarian, 1553 - Mauritius, duke/monarch of Saksen (1547-53), dies of injuries at 32 1581 - Peder Skram, Danish senator and naval hero 1593 - Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1st surrealist painter, (birth date unkn) 1649 - Margaret Coventry, 1st English earl of Shaftesbury, 1667 - John Fox, Amsterdam writer, buried 1679 - William Chamberlayne, English poet (b. 1619) 1686 - Michel Anguier, French sculptor, 75 1688 - King Narai of Siam (b. 1629) 1690 - Friedrich H duke van Schomberg, marshal, dies in battle at 75
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