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July 19, 2011
History Trivia
July 19,711 – Umayyad conquest of Hispania: Battle of Guadalete – Muslim Umayyad Caliphate forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeated the Visigoths led by King Roderic.1318 Austria recognized the Three Forest Cantons, marking the beginning of modern Switzerland. 1333 Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Halidon Hill – The English won a decisive victory over the Scots. 1544 Italian War of 1542: the first Siege of Boulogne began. 1545 The Tudor warship Mary Rose capsized and sunk off Portsmouth with the loss of approximately 500 men. 1553 Lady Jane Grey was replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after only nine days of reign. 1588 Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines – The Spanish Armada was sighted in the English Channel.
July 18, 2011
History Trivia
July 18, 390 BC – Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia – a Roman army was defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome. 64 Great fire of Rome: a fire started in the merchant area of Rome near Circus Maximus and much of the city was destroyed while Emperor Nero allegedly fiddled. 1290 King Edward I of England issued the Edict of Expulsion, banishing all Jews (numbering about 16,000) from England; this was Tisha B'Av on the Hebrew calendar, a day that commemorates many Jewish calamities. 1334 The bishop of Florence blessed the first foundation stone for the new campanile (bell tower) of the Florence Cathedral, designed by the artist Giotto di Bondone. 1389 Kingdom of France and Kingdom of England agreed to the Truce of Leulinghem, inaugurating a 13 year peace; the longest period of sustained peace during the Hundred Years War.
July 17, 2011
History Trivia
July 17, 180 – Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa were executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world. 1203 The Fourth Crusade - Constantinople captured. The Byzantine emperor Alexius III Angelus fled from his capital into exile. 1453 Hundred Years' War: Battle of Castillon: The French under Jean Bureau defeated the English under the Earl of Shrewsbury, who was killed in the battle in Gascony. 1586 A meeting took place at Lüneburg (a town in the German state of Lower Saxony) between several some evangelical Princes and Electors, and representatives of the King of Navarre, the King of Denmark and the Queen of England in order to discuss the formation of an 'evangelical' league of defense, called the 'Confederatio Militiae Evangelicae', against the Catholic League.
July 16, 2011
History Trivia
July 16, 622 Mohammed made his famous flight, or Hegira, from Mecca to Medina, marking the beginning of the Moslem calendar. 1054 Three Roman legates broke relations between Western and Eastern Christian Churches through the act of placing an invalidly-issued Papal Bull of Excommunication on the altar of Hagia Sophia during Saturday afternoon divine liturgy. Historians frequently describe the event as the start of the East-West Schism. 1212 Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa: after Pope Innocent III called European knights to a crusade, forces of Kings Alfonso VIII of Castile, Sancho VII of Navarre, Pedro II of Aragon and Afonso II of Portugal defeated those of the Berber Muslim leader Almohad, thus marking a significant turning point in the Reconquista and in the medieval history of Spain. 1377 Coronation of Richard II of England. Richard was a son of Edward, the Black Prince and was born during the reign of his grandfather, Edward III.
July 15, 2011
History Trivia
July 15, 971 Sainte Swithin, the Bishop of Winchester, was reburied inside his cathedral. The day is celebrated in England as Saint Swithin's Day. 1099 Jerusalem was captured by soldiers of the First Crusade, having been held by Islamic rulers since 655 AD. 1149 The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulchre was consecrated in Jerusalem. 1207 King John of England expelled Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop Stephen Langton. 1381 John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, was hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of King Richard II of England. 1799 The Rosetta Stone - key to the translation of hieroglyphs - was discovered in Egypt by a French soldier.
July 14, 2011
History Trivia
July 14, 1223 Louis VIII became King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II of France. 1789 the general populace stormed the Bastille; on 4 August feudalism was abolished and on 26 August the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was proclaimed. The anniversary of the storming of the Bastille fortress-prison was seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern nation and of the reconciliation of all the French inside the constitutional monarchy which preceded the First Republic during the French Revolution.
July 13, 2011
History Trivia
July 13,1174 William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173–1174, was captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England. 1260 the Livonian Order, a Catholic and military-political organization of knights of the Teutonic Order, which created a feudal state in the eastern Baltic region that lasted from the 13th through 16th centuries, suffered its greatest defeat in the 13th century in the battle of Durbe against the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The battle inspired the Great Prussian Uprising which ended in 1274.
July 12, 2011
History Trivia
July 12,100 BC Gaius Julius Caesar was born. 526 Saint Felix IV became Roman Catholic pope. 927 England was unified by Athelstan of England after a long process of annexation. 1153 Anasasius IV was crowned Roman Catholic pope. 1191 Third Crusade: Saladin's garrison surrendered to Conrad of Montferrat, ending the two-year siege of Acre. 1450 A rebellion against war taxes ended when its leader, Jack Cade, was driven out of London and later killed. 1543 King Henry VIII of England married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr, at Hampton Court Palace.
July 11, 2011
History Trivia
July 11, 472 After being besieged in Rome by his own generals, Western Roman Emperor Anthemius was captured in the Old St. Peter's Basilica and put to death. 911 The Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple of France and Rollo leader of the Vikings was signed. The treaty protected Charles kingdom from further invasion and created the duchy of Normandy; the Vikings became known as Normans. Also Rollo agreed to be baptized and to marry the illegitimate daughter of Charles, thus becoming the king's vassal. 1302 Battle of the Golden Spurs: a coalition around the Flemish cities defeated the king of France's royal army. The battle was a
French attempt to subdue the County of Flanders, which was formally part of the French kingdom and added to the crown lands in 1297 but had resisted centralist French policies. 1346 Charles IV of Luxembourg was elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
French attempt to subdue the County of Flanders, which was formally part of the French kingdom and added to the crown lands in 1297 but had resisted centralist French policies. 1346 Charles IV of Luxembourg was elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
July 10, 2011
History Trivia
July 10, 48 BC Battle of Dyrrhachium: Julius Caesar barely avoided a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia. 138 Emperor Hadrian died of heart failure at Baiae at age 62, he was buried in Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina. 988 The city of Dublin was founded on the banks of the river Liffey. 1212 The most severe of several early fires of London burned most of the city to the ground. 1460 Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick defeated the king's Lancastrian forces and captured King Henry VI in the Battle of Northampton. 1553 Lady Jane Grey took the throne of England. 1645 English Civil War: The Battle of Langport took place.
