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March 5, 2012
History Trivia
March 5,363 Roman Emperor Julian attacked the Sassanid (Persian) Empire with an army of 90,000in a campaign which would bring about his own death. 493 the German barbarian leader Odovacar (Odocacer), who had ended the Western Roman Empire in 476, was executed at age 59 by the Ostrogoths. 1133 King Henry II of England was born. 1461 Henry VI was deposed by Duke of York during the War of the Roses.
March 4, 2012
History Trivia
March 4, 51 Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, was given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth). 1152 Frederick Barbarossa was elected Holy Roman Emperor. 1193 Saladin died. 1215 King John of England made an oath to Pope Innocent III as a crusader to gain his support. 1461 Battle at Towton: Yorkists defeated the Lancastrians and Edward IV was recognized as king of England. 1492 King James IV of Scotland concluded an alliance with France against England.
March 3, 2012
March 3, 493 Ostrogoten King Theodorik the Great and vice...
March 3, 493 Ostrogoten King Theodorik the Great and viceroy of the Eastern Roman Empire beat German usurper Odoaker who had made himself King of Italy. 1046 antipope Sylvester III died. 1284 The Statute of Rhuddlan (Statute of Wales) incorporated the Principality of Wales into England, and provided the constitutional basis for the government of the Principality of North Wales from 1284 until 1536.
March 2, 2012
History Trivia
March 2, 462 Total Lunar Eclipse. 672 Saint Caedda died. He was educated at Lindisfarne and spent time in Ireland before succeeding his brother as Abbot of Laestingaeu in Yorkshire. 871 Battle at Marton: Ethelred of Wessex beat the Danish invasion army. 986 Louis V became King of the Franks. 986 Lothair, King of France, died. 1127 Charles the Good, Count of Flanders, was murdered while at prayer in the church of St. Donat at Bruges. 1316 King Robert II of Scotland, the first Stewart King, was born.
March 1, 2012
History Trivia
March 1, 752 BC Romulus, first king of Rome, celebrated the first Roman triumph after his victory over the Caeninenses, following the Rape of the Sabine Women. 86 BC Lucius Cornelius Sulla, at the head of a Roman Republic army, entered Athens, and removed the tyrant Aristion who was supported by troops of Mithridates VI of Pontus. 286 Roman Emperor Diocletian raised Maximian to the rank of Caesar. 317 Crispus and Constantine II, sons of Roman Emperor Constantine I, and Licinius Iunior, son of Emperor Licinius, were made Caesares. 492 St. Felix III ended his reign and St. Gelasius I began his reign as Pope. 743 Slave export by Christians to heathen areas was prohibited. 918 Balderik became Bishop of Utrecht. He was the son of Count Ricfried in the Betuwe, who expelled the Vikings from Utrecht.
February 29, 2012
History Trivia
February 29, leap day, which is the 60th day of the Gregorian calendar, with 306 days remaining in the year. 992 St. Oswald, Archbishop of York died. He was a leading force in the reform of monasticism, and founded several Benedictine monasteries. 1528 Patrick Hamilton was the first Protestant martyr to be burned at the stake in Scotland.
February 28, 2012
History Trivia
February 28, 364 Valentinian I became Roman Emperor. 870 Ecumenical council ended in Constantinople. 1066 Westminster Abbey opened. 1574 Two Englishmen and an Irishman were burnt for heresy on the orders of the Holy Office of the Inquisition. 1694 Queen Mary II of England died after five years of joint rule with her husband, King William III.
February 27, 2012
History Trivia
February 27, 280 Constantine I (The Great) was born. 380 Roman emperor Theodosius declared the orthodoxy of the Nicene Creed, and made Christianity the sole religion of the empire. 837 The 15th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. 1560 The Treaty of Berwick, which expelled the French from Scotland, was signed by England and the Congregation of Scotland. 1594 Henry IV was crowned King of France.
February 26, 2012
History Trivia
February 26,364 Valentinian I, founder of the Valentinian Dynasty and considered to be the last great Western Emperor, was proclaimed Roman Emperor. 1266 Battle of Benevento was fought between Charles of Anjou and Manfred of Sicily. Charles' victory resulted in the collapse of Hohenstaufen rule in Italy. 1616 Spanish Inquisition delivered an injunction to Galileo.
February 25, 2012
History Trivia
February 25,777 Saint Walburga, patroness of sailors because her prayers calmed a stormy sea, and thereby saving a ship caught in its wake, died. 1570 Elizabeth I was declared a heretic by Pope Pius V.1601 Robert Devereux, the second Earl of Essex and former favorite of Elizabeth I, was beheaded in the Tower of London for high treason.
