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August 7, 2011
History Trivia
August 7, 322 BC Battle of Crannon: Macedonian forces of Antipater and Craterus and rebellious Greek forces led by the Athenians, was the decisive battle of the Lamian War. The Greeks sued for peace which marked the end of city-state freedom from Macedonian hegemony in Greece. 317 Roman Emperor Flavius Julius Constantius was born. 626 The Avar and Slav armies left the siege of Constantinople, which kept the Byzantine Empire intact. 936 Coronation of King Otto I of Germany. 1420 Construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore began in Florence. 1427 The Visconti of Milan's fleet was destroyed by the Venetians on the Po River. 1485 Henry VII's army landed in Milford Harbor, South-Wales, a Lancastrian stronghold, and amassed an army to seize the crown from Richard III who was defeated at the Battle of Bosworth Field on August 22, 1485.
August 6, 2011
History Trivia
August 6,258 Pope Sixtus II was beheaded during the persecution by Emperor Valerian.939 Battle at Simancas - Spain defeated the Moors. Arab witnesses reported a spectacular eclipse of the sun that took place on the first day of the battle, a bad omen. 1181 Supernova was observed by Chinese and Japanese astronomers. 1284 The Republic of Pisa was defeated in the Battle of Meloria by the Republic of Genoa, thus losing its naval dominance in the Mediterranean. 1806 Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicated, ending the Holy Roman Empire.
August 5, 2011
History Trivia
August 5, 642 – Battle of Maserfield – Penda of Mercia defeated and killed Oswald of Northumbria. 910 The last major Danish army to raid England was defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward the Elder and Earl Aethelred of Mercia. 1100 Henry I was crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey. 1305 William Wallace, who led the Scottish resistance against England, was captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London where he was put on trial and executed. 1388 The Battle of Otterburn, a border skirmish was fought between the Scots and the English in Northern England; the Scots were victorious.
August 4, 2011
History Trivia
August 4, 70 The destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans. 367 Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, was named co-Augustus by his father. 1265 Second Barons' War: Battle of Evesham: the army of Prince Edward (the future king Edward I of England) defeated the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, killing de Montfort and many of his allies. 1532 the Duchy of Brittany was annexed to the Kingdom of France.
August 3, 2011
History Trivia
August 3, 30 BC Mark Antony committed suicide in Alexandria, Egypt, to which he had been pursued by Octavian after the Battle of Actium. 8 Roman Empire general Tiberius defeated Dalmatians on the river Bathinus (southern Croatia). 435 Deposed Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, was exiled by Roman Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt. Nestorianism is the error that Jesus is two distinct persons. 881 Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu: Louis III of France defeated the Vikings, an event celebrated in the German poem Ludwigslied. 1291the Crusaders abandoned Tortosa (province of Tarragona, in Catalonia, Spain) to the Moslems.
August 2, 2011
History Trivia
August 2,338 BC A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean. 216 BC Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae – The Carthaginian army lead by Hannibal and his elephants defeated a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro. 47 BC Julius Caesar said "I came, I saw, I conquered" after defeating Pharnaces, King of Pontus (northeast Turkey).1100 William II (Rufus) was killed by an arrow shot by Walter Tyrell while hunting in the New Forest.
August 1, 2011
History Trivia
August 1,30 BC – Octavian (later known as Augustus) entered Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic. 10 BC, Claudius I, Emperor of Rome AD 41-54 was born. He built Rome's harbor at Ostia and conquered parts of England and Thrace (now the Balkins). 69 Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior (Netherlands) revolted under the leadership of Gaius Julius Civilis. 126 Publius Helvius Pertinax, Emperor of Rome for less than one year in 193 was born. 527 Justinian I became the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire. 902 Taormina, the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily, was captured by the Aghlabid army. 1137 Louis VI, the Fat, King of France died of dysentery. 1203 Isaac II Angelus, restored Eastern Roman Emperor, declared his son Alexius IV Angelus co-emperor after pressure from the forces of the Fourth Crusade.
July 31, 2011
History Trivia
July 31, 30 BC Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieved a minor victory over Octavian's forces, but most of his army subsequently deserted, leading to his suicide. 432 Saint Sixtus III was elected Roman Catholic pope. 781 The oldest recorded eruption of Mt. Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: July 6, 781). 1009 Pope Sergius IV became the 142nd pope, succeeding Pope John XVIII. 1201 Byzantine noble John Komnenos, nicknamed "the Fat" attempted to usurp the imperial throne from Alexios III Angelos in a short-lived coup in Constantinople. He was captured and executed when the coup was suppressed. 1423 Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant – the French army was defeated at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne. 1588 The Spanish Armada was spotted off the coast of England.
July 30, 2011
History Trivia
July 30, 579 Benedict I ended his reign as Catholic Pope. 657 St Vitalian began his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Eugene I. 1178 Frederick I (Barbarossa), Holy Roman Emperor, was crowned King of Burgundy. 1419 First Defenestration of Prague: Anti-Catholic Hussites, followers of executed reformer Jan Hus, stormed the town hall in Prague and threw Catholic councilors out the windows. 1629 An earthquake in Naples, Italy, killed about 10,000 people.
July 29, 2011
History Trivia
July 29 238 The Praetorian Guard stormed the palace and captured Pupienus and Balbinus. They were dragged through the streets of Rome and executed. On the same day Gordian III, age 13, was proclaimed emperor. 904 Sack of Thessalonica: Saracen raiders under Leo of Tripoli sacked Thessalonica, the Byzantine Empire's second-largest city, after a short siege, and plundered it for a week. 1030 Ladejarl-Fairhair succession wars: Battle of Stiklestad – King Olaf II , the patron saint of Norway, fought and died trying to regain his Norwegian throne from the Danes. 1565 The widowed Mary, Queen of Scots, married Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany, at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, Scotland. 1567 James VI was crowned King of Scotland at Stirling. 1588 Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines – English naval forces under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeated the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.
