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June 9, 2011
History Trivia
June 9, 411 BC – Coup in Athens succeeded, forming a short-lived oligarchy. 53 Roman Emperor Nero married Claudia Octavia. 62 Claudia Octavia was executed. 68 Roman Emperor Nero committed suicide, after quoting Homer's Iliad, ending the Julian-Claudian imperial dynasty. 721 Odo of Aquitaine defeated the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse. 1310 Duccio's Maestà Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, was unveiled and installed in the Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.
June 8, 2011
History Trivia
June 8, 68 Nero awoke to find that his guards had fled and that he was a wanted man. He fled Rome and committed suicide the next day. The Roman Senate proclaimed Galba as emperor. 218 Battle of Antioch: Elagabalus with support of the Syrian legions defeated the forces of emperor Macrinus. He fled, but was captured near Chalcedon and later executed in Cappadocia.793 Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, and is commonly accepted as the beginning of the Scandinavian invasion of England. 1191, Richard the Lion-Hearted of England arrived at the port of Acre in the Holy Land during the third Crusade. He captured Acre, but could not recapture Jerusalem from the Turks. 1376 Edward, the Black Prince died. 1405 Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, were executed in York on Henry IV's orders.
June 7, 2011
History Trivia
June 7, 1099 The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem began.In this climax of the First Crusade, the Christian army encamped before the city and began the siege that was to result in the capture of the city more than a month later. 1420 Troops of the Republic of Venice captured Udine, ending the independence of the Patriarchal State of Friuli. 1329 Robert the Bruce died. 1494 Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divided the New World between the two countries.
June 6, 2011
History Trivia
June 6, 1513 Italian Wars: Battle of Novara. Swiss troops defeated the French under Louis de la Tremoille, forcing the French to abandon Milan. Duke Massimiliano Sforza was restored. 1523 Gustav Vasa was elected King of Sweden, marking the end of the Kalmar Union, which had united the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway (with Iceland, Greenland, Faroe Islands, Shetland,and Orkney),and Sweden.
June 5, 2011
History Trivia
June 5, 70 Titus and his Roman legions breached the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem. 1257 Kraków, Poland received city rights. 1294 Saint Celestine V was elected Roman Catholic pope. He was unhappy with the office and abdicated before the year was out. 1798 The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster was defeated.
June 4, 2011
History Trivia
June 4, 781 BC – The first historic solar eclipse was recorded in China. 1039 Henry III became Holy Roman Emperor. 1070 the process of making Roquefort cheese was discovered by an anonymous shepherd in a cave near Roquefort, France.
June 3, 2011
History Trivia
June 3, 350 Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaimed himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators. 1098 First Crusade: Antioch fell to the crusaders after an eight-month siege. 1162 Thomas À Becket consecrated Archbishop. When Henry II appointed his old friend to this powerful post, he thought Becket would continue to support him in the ongoing struggle of state vs. church. Becket would soon prove otherwise.
June 2, 2011
History Trivia
June 2,455 Rome was captured and brutally sacked by Geiseric the Vandal. 575 Benedict I was confirmed as pope. 597 Saxon King Ethelbert was converted to Christianity and baptized by St. Augustine of Canterbury. 1098 First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ended as Crusader forces took the city. The second siege began on June 7. 1420 Henry V married Catherine of Valois.
June 1, 2011
History Trivia
June 1, 193 Roman Emperor Didius Julianus was assassinated. 987 Hugh Capet was elected King of France. 1204 King Philip Augustus of France conquered Rouen. 1215 Beijing, then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, was captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Beijing. 1252 Alfonso X was elected King of Castile and León. 1298 residents of Riga and Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida. 1495 Friar John Cor (Lindores Abbey, Scotland) recorded the first known batch of scotch whisky. 1533 Anne Boleyn was crowned Queen of England.
May 31, 2011
Big Ben
May 31, 1859 Big Ben located at the top of the 320-foot-high St. Stephen's Tower, rang out over the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, London, for the first time.
