Sunday, May 22, 2022
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337 - Constantine the Great, emperor of Rome (306-37)/anti semite, dies.
760 - Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
987 - Louis V le Faineant the Lazy, king of France (986-87), poisoned at age 20.
1176 - Murder attempt by "Assassins" on Saladin near Aleppo.
1200 - Peace of Goulet.
1370 - Jews are expelled/massacred from Brussels Belgium.
1455 - Richard of York takes Saint Albans, kidnapping King Henry VI.
1501 - Robert Gaguin French writer/diplomat (Arte Metrificandi), dies at age 66.
1526 - Pope Clemens VII, France, Genoa, Venice, Florence and Milan form Anti-French League of Cognac.
1540 - Francesco Guicciardini Italian historian/President of Romagna, dies at age 57.