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August 25, 2011
History Trivia
August 25,357 Julian Caesar defeated the Alamanni(alliance of German tribes) at Strousbourg in Gaul. 608 Boniface IV became Roman Catholic pope. 1270 King Louis IX of France (Saint Louis) died in northern Africa while leading the Eighth Crusade. 1346 Edward III of England defeated Philip VI's army at the Battle of Crecy in France.1549 Kett's Rebellion was a revolt in Norfolk, England during the reign of Edward VI. The rebellion was in response to the enclosure of land. It began in July 1549 but was eventually crushed by forces loyal to the English crown when the Earl of Warwick attacked and entered Norwich on August 25.
August 24, 2011
History Trivia
August 24, 49 BC Julius Caesar's general Gaius Scribonius Curio was defeated in the Second Battle of the Bagradas River by the Numidians under Publius Attius Varus and King Juba of Numidia. Curio committed suicide to avoid capture. 79 Mount Vesuvius erupted. The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae were buried in volcanic ash Pliny the Elder died of asphyxiation at age 56 while witnessing the scene from the coast. 410 Alaric, leader of the Visigoths, sacked Rome, but spared its churches. This was first hostile occupation of the city since the fourth century BC. 1113 Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou and ancestor of the Plantagenet kings of England was born. 1200 King John of England, signee of the first Magna Carta, married Isabella of Angouleme in Bordeaux Cathedral.
August 23, 2011
History Trivia
August 23, 79 Mount Vesuvius (a stratovolcano on the Bay of Naples, Italy) began to stir, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire. 406 Battle at Florence: Stilicho's Roman army beat Radagaisus' Barbarians. Radagaisus King of the Goths (east Germanic tribe of Scandinavian origin) was captured and executed. 1305 William Wallace, Scottish patriot, was executed for high treason by Edward I of England.
August 22, 2011
History Trivia
August 22, 392 Arbogast (Frankish general of the Roman empire) had Eugenius (a Christian who was the last Emperor to support Roman polytheism) elected Western Roman Emperor. 476 Odoacer was named Rex italiae (King of Italy)) by his troops. His reign is commonly seen as marking the end of the classical Roman Empire in Western Europe and the beginning of the Middle Ages. 565 St. Columba reported seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland. 851 Erispoe, King of Brittany, defeated Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland. 1138 Battle of the Standard where English forces repelled the Scottish army led by King David I of Scotland. 1485 Richard III was killed at the Battle of Bosworth and Henry VII became the first king of the Tudor dynasty.
August 21, 2011
History Trivia
August 21, 1165 Philip II (Philip Augustus) the first king of the Capetian dynasty in France was born. 1689 The Battle of Dunkeld in Scotland was fought between Jacobite clans supporting the deposed king James VII of Scotland and a government regiment of covenanters supporting William of Orange, King of Scotland, in the streets around Dunkeld Cathedral, Dunkeld, Scotland, and formed part of the Jacobite rising commonly called Dundee's rising in Scotland.
August 20, 2011
History Trivia
August 20, 1119 Henry I defeated an invasion of his Norman lands by Louis VI (the Fat), King of France, at the Battle of Brémule. The defeat effectively crippled the baron's rebellion and led to King Louis having to accept William Adelin as Duke of Normandy. William was officially invested with the duchy in 1120, even though King Louis continued to support William Clito's claim to the honour. The contemporary Norman historian Orderic Vitalis noted that the quality of their armour and the chivalrous preference for capturing (and presumably ransoming) the enemy meant that of the 900 knights engaged in 'the battle of the two kings' only three were killed.
August 19, 2011
History Trivia
August 19, 480 BC Spartan soldiers made an heroic last stand against the Persians at the pass at Thermopylae. 43 BC Octavian, later known as Augustus, compelled the Roman Senate to elect him Consul. 14 Roman emperor Augustus died at Nola at age 76after a 41-year reign. 312 Roman emperor Constantine the Great supposedly saw a vision of a cross and the words, "In this sign conquer," which caused him to eventually embrace Christianity. 1274 Edward I was crowned King of England. 1561 An 18-year-old Mary, Queen of Scots, returned to Scotland after spending 13 years in France.
August 18, 2011
History Trivia
August 18, 293 BC The oldest known Roman temple to Venus was founded, starting the institution of Vinalia Rustica (festival sacred to Jupiter). 328 Saint Helena, the mother of Roman Emperor Constantine the Great, died at age 82. 1201 The city of Riga(Baltics) was founded, and became a thriving center of Viking trade. 1227 Genghis Khan, the great Mongol conqueror, died at age 60. 1572 The future Huguenot King Henry IV of Navarre was married to Marguerite de Valois, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics.
August 17, 2011
History Trivia
August 17, 986 A Byzantine army was destroyed in the pass of Trajan's Gate by the Bulgarians under the Comitopuli Samuel and Aron. The Byzantine emperor Basil II narrowly escaped. The Battle of the Gates of Trajan only postponed the fall of Bulgaria, which occurred in 1018. 1510 Edmund Dudley was executed for treason under Henry VIII. While waiting for his execution he wrote The Tree of Commonwealth, a treatise in support of absolute monarchy; Dudley hoped to gain the favor of Henry VIII, but there is no evidence that Henry ever saw the document.
August 16, 2011
History Trivia
August 16 1513 The Battle of Guinegate (near Saint-Omer in the Pas de Calais, France)or Battle of the Spurs: As part of the Holy League under the on-going Italian Wars, English and Imperial troops under Henry VIII and Maximilian I surprised and routed a body of French cavalry under Jacques de La Palice. The English army was provided by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey and combined several different types of martial forces, and included cavalry, artillery, infantry and longbows using hardened steel arrows designed to penetrate armour more effectively. The French forces were mostly companies of gendarmes and pikemen, with some other mixed forces as well. The battle became known as the "Battle of the Spurs" because of the haste of the French horsemen to leave the battlefield.
