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March 24, 2012
History Trivia
March 24, 1208 King John of England opposed Innocent III on his nomination for archbishop of Canterbury. 1550 France, England and Scotland signed the Peace of Boulogne, ending the War of the Rough Wooing (conflict between England and Scotland with the Scots receiving French military aid). 1603 Elizabeth I died and James VI of Scotland became James I of England, unifying the English and Scottish crowns.
March 23, 2012
History Trivia
March 23, 752 Stephen's two-day pontificate began. Elected to succeed Zachary, Stephen II died before he died before his consecration; earlier writers do not appear to have included him in the list of the popes; but, in accordance with the long standing practice of the Roman Church, he is now generally counted among them. This divergent practice has introduced confusion into the way of counting the Popes Stephen. 1066: 18th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. 1657 France and England formed an alliance against Spain. 1743 Handel's Messiah was performed for the first time in London.
March 22, 2012
History Trivia
March 22, 238 Gordian I and his son Gordian II were proclaimed Roman Emperors. 1312Order of the Knights Templar was suppressed. 1349 Townspeople of Fulda Germany massacred Jews who were blamed for the Black Death. 1429 Joan of Arc dictated a warning to the English. 1457 Gutenberg Bible became the first printed book. 1556 Cardinal Reginald Pole became archbishop of Canterbury.
March 21, 2012
History Trivia
March 21, 47 BC, Julius Caesar defeated Ptolemy XII, Cleopatra's brother and rival, at Alexandria, Egypt, thus restoring Cleopatra to the throne. 630 Byzantine emperor Heraclius restored the True Cross to Jerusalem. 717 Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid. 1152 Annulment of the marriage of King Louis VII of France and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine. Eleanor retained control of Aquitaine and shortly thereafter wed Henry Plantagenet, who would become the next king of England. 1413 Henry V crowned King of England. 1474 Saint Angela Merici, founder of the Ursulines, was born. 1556 The first Protestant archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, was burned at the stake for heresy.
March 20, 2012
History Trivia
March 20, 43 BC, Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), the most versatile of the Roman poets, was born. 141 Sixth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. 235 Maximinus Thrax was proclaimed emperor. He was the first foreigner to hold the Roman throne. 687 Saint Cuthbert, a shepherd and hermit who achieved fame as a holy man, healer, and bishop, died. 851 Ebbo of Reims, Bishop in the Carolingian empire and evangelist to Denmark, died. 1345 Saturn/Jupiter/Mars-conjunction was thought to have caused the plague epidemic. 1413 King Henry IV of England died and was succeed by his son Henry V. 1549 Thomas Seymour was executed. Seymour had married Henry VIII's widow Katherine Parr and pursued the young princess Elizabeth without success. When his piratical activities were discovered he was arrested, tried, and executed.
March 19, 2012
History Trivia
March 19, 235 Maximinus Thrax was proclaimed Emperor of Rome. 1179 The Third Lateran Council of the Catholic Church called a crusade against Cathar heretics in Toulouse. 1307 The Douglas Larder raid - Sir James Douglas was a Scot who returned home from school in Paris to find his estates had been claimed and occupied by an Englishman, Robert de Clifford. Joining with Robert the Bruce for a time, he returned in an attempt to take back his land, attacking his own castle three times. After his final assault, known as the Douglas Larder, he razed the castle to the ground. 1330 King Edward II of England's younger brother, Edmund Plantagenet, Earl of Kent died.
March 18, 2012
History Trivia
March 18, 37 The Roman Senate annulled Tiberius's will and proclaimed Caligula emperor. 235 Emperor Alexander Severus and his mother Julia Mamaea were murdered by legionaries near Moguntiacum (modern Mainz), ending the Severan dynasty. 1190 Crusaders killed 57 Jews in Bury St Edmonds England. 1227 Pope Honorius III Died. His pontificate concentrated on church reform and the crusades. 1229 Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor declared himself King of Jerusalem during the Sixth Crusade. 1314 Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, was burned at the stake. 1438 Albert II of Habsburg became Holy Roman Emperor.
March 17, 2012
History Trivia
March 17, 45 BC In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeated the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda. 44 BC, the conspirators in Julius Caesar's murder were granted amnesty in a short-lived reprieve before Mark Antony stirred the people to take revenge on them. 180 AD, Marcus Aurelius died in his camp-bed during a campaign along the Danube frontier, and Commodus became the sole emperor of the Roman Empire. 461 St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, died in Ireland at an approximate age of 72. 1337 Edward, the Black Prince was made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy made in England. 1473 King James IV of Scotland was born. His marriage to Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII, helped stabilize relations between the two countries.
March 16, 2012
History Trivia
March 16, 597 BC Babylonians captured Jerusalem, replaced Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king. 37 AD the emperor Tiberius died at the age of 78 and was succeeded by Caligula. 1072 Adalbert, archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen and guardian and tutor to Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV, died. 1190 Massacre of the Jews at York, England.
March 15, 2012
History Trivia
March 15, 351 Constantius II elevated his cousin Gallus to Caesar, and put him in charge of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire. 493 Theodorik the Great defeated Odoaker of Italy. 933 Battle at Riade: German King Henry I defeated Magyaren. 1311 Battle of Halmyros: The Catalans defeated Walter V of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece. 1360 France invasion army landed on England's southern coast, conquering Winchel.
