This day in History - August 5

374 Historic Events for August 5
135 Event Betar last outpost of Bar Kochba falls to Rome
1071 Event Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes captured/Islam advances through Europe
1157 Death Dirk VI, Count of Holland, dies
1264 Event Anti-Jewish riots break out in Arnstadt Germany
1391 Event Castilian sailors fire attack Jewish ghetto of Barcelona, 100's killed
1391 Event Jews are massacred in Toledo and Barcelona Spain
1399 Event Battle at Worskla: Tataren beat Russians and Litouwers
1420 Event Duke John VI of Bavaria visits "Christ's bride"/virgin Liduina
1435 Event Battle at Ponza: king Alfonso V of Arag¢n captured by Genuezen
1540 Birth Joseph Justice Scaliger, proposed Julian dating
1543 Event French and Turkish troops occupy Nice
1583 Event Gilbert claims Newfoundland (1st English colony in North America)
1587 Event Spanish troops conquer Lock
1604 Birth John Eliot, "Apostle to Indians," Bible translator, baptized
1607 Birth Philipp Friedrich Boddecker, composer
1623 Birth Antonio Cesti, composer
1624 Birth William, Jamestown Va, 1st black child born in English America
1644 Death J Henry Alting, theologist (Statenvertaling), dies at 61
1654 Event French troops occupy Stenay
1666 Event English fleet beats Dutch under Michiel the Ruyter
1667 Event State of Holland obtain Eternal Edict
1694 Birth Leonardo Ortensio Salvatore de Leo, composer
1711 Birth Johan Lulofs, Dutch physicist/philosopher/astronomer
1716 Event Battle at Peterwardein: Eugenius van Savoye beats Turks
1745 Event Skirmish at Laggan: Glengarry beats Royal Scots