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April 1, 2012
History Trivia
April 1,374 Comet 1P/374 E1 (Halley) approached within 0.0884 AUs of Earth. 527 Byzantine Emperor Justin I named his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne. 705 Greek pope John VII was chosen to succeed John VI. 1204 Eleanor of Aquitaine died. 1293 Robert Winchelsey left England for Rome, to be consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury. 1318 Berwick-upon-Tweed was captured by the Scottish from the English. 1340 Niels Ebbesen killed Gerhard III of Holstein in his bedroom, ending the 1332-1340 interregnum(period of discontinuity)in Denmark. 1578 William Harvey of England discovered blood circulation.
March 31, 2012
History Trivia
March 31, 307 after divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine married Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Maximian. 1084 Henry VI of Germany, after deposing Pope Gregory VII, was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Gregory's successor, Pope Clement III. 1146 Bernard of Clairvaux preached his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. 1657 Parliament offered Oliver Cromwell the title of king in the Humble Petition and Advice, but he rejected the title.
March 30, 2012
History Trivia
March 30,317 BC, Phocion, the great Athenian general and statesman, died at an approximate age of 85. 240 BC first recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. 1135 Maimonides was born. He was a Jewish philosopher who tried to harmonize Judaism with the teachings of Aristotle in his principal work, The Guide of the Perplexed, in 1190. 1191 Celestine III elected Pope. During his pontificate, he confirmed the order of Teutonic Knights. 1296 Edward I sacked Berwick-upon-Tweed, during armed conflict between Scotland and England. 1603 The Nine Years' War between England and Irish rebel Hugh O'Neill ended with the surrender of the Irish.1533 Henry VIII divorced his first wife, Catherine of Aragon. 1533 Thomas Cranmer became archbishop of Canterbury.
March 29, 2012
History Trivia
March 29, 1461 - Battle near Towton Field, death toll about 33,000 in the deadliest battle of the War of the Roses, where Edward of York defeated Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England. 1561 Santorio Santorio, the first physician to employ instruments of precision to medical practice, was born.
March 28, 2012
Booksessed: Briton and the Dane Trilogy Summation and Giveaway...
Booksessed: Briton and the Dane Trilogy Summation and Giveaway...: You may have seen on the blog yesterday that I posted a review for The Briton and the Dane: Legacy, the final book in the trilogy. The ser...
History Trivia
March 28, 37 Roman Emperor Caligula accepted the titles of the Principate, entitled to him by the Senate. 193 Roman Emperor Pertinax was assassinated by Praetorian Guards, who then sold the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus. 364 Roman Emperor Valentinian I appointed his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor. 845 Paris was sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collected a huge ransom in exchange for leaving. 1515 St. Teresa of Ávila was born. Teresa was a mystic, a reformer of the Carmelite order, and author of spiritual literature. She was the first woman to be named a doctor of the Church.
March 27, 2012
Booksessed: Review: The Briton and the Dane: Legacy by Mary An...
Booksessed: Review: The Briton and the Dane: Legacy by Mary An...: Book: The Briton and The Dane: Legacy by Mary Ann Bernal (The Briton and The Dane Book 3) Published January 2012 384 pages Form...
History Trivia
March 27, 196 BC Ptolemy V ascended to the throne of Egypt. 1309 Pope Clement V excommunicated Venice and all its population. 1329 Pope John XXII issued his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical. 1599 Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex and a favorite of Elizabeth I, became Lord Lieutenant General of Ireland during the Nine Years War. However, he was unsuccessful in defeating the rebel forces and returned to England in disgrace. 1625 Charles I, King of England, Scotland & Ireland, ascended to the English throne.
March 26, 2012
History Trivia
March 26, 752 Pope Stephen (II) III elected; he was the first sovereign of the Papal States, crowned Pepin as King of the Franks, corresponded with the Emperor Constantine on the subject of the restoration of the sacred images, restored many of the ancient churches of the city, and built hospitals specifically for the poor near St. Peter's church where he is buried. 1026 Pope John XIX crowned Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor. 1484 William Caxton printed his translation of Aesop's Fables.
March 25, 2012
History Trivia
March 25,196 BC Ptolemy V ascended to the throne of Egypt. 47 BC Ptolemy XII, King of Egypt and brother of Cleopatra, drowned in the Nile, probably with an assist by Julius Caesar, who thereby made Cleopatra queen. 1 Origin of Dionysian Incarnation of the Word. 31 First Easter, according to calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus. 421 City of Venice founded. 708 Constantine I began his reign as Catholic Pope. 1199 Richard I was wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France which led to his death on April 6. 1306 Robert the Bruce was crowned King of Scotland.
