June 7

 Amber pages:



1099: First crusaders arrive in Jerusalem (how many did they kill en route? click here. I just did, but that gives the estimated total for all the Crusades, not this one alone. Still, that is quite a staggering number, even if we mistrust it and insist on the lowest number. And then, relative to the total population in Europe and Asia Minor at the time, that's still... that's worse than Hitler!)

 

1329: Death of Roibert a Briuis, king of Scotland


1848: Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin, post-impressionist painter, born today in Paris, though it was his childhood in Peru that defined him as a painter

 

1893: yes, as early as that, Gandhi’s "Rosa Parks" moment; told in full here

 

 


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