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The Briton and the Dane (The Special Edition)

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History Trivia

May 21, On this day The Agonalia was held. It was held on January 9th, March 17th, May 21st, and December 11th. On each day a ram was sacrificed, probably as an offering to Janus. 685 English settlement was halted at the Firth of Forth when Picts defeated Northumbrians at Nachtansmere. 878 Syracuse, Italy was captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily. 879 Pope John VIII gave blessings to Duke Branimir and to Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of the Croatian state. 996 Sixteen-year-old Otto III was crowned Holy Roman Emperor. 1420 Charles VI ceded France to Henry V of England in the Treaty of Troyes, after Henry's victory at Agincourt.

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May 20, 325 Roman emperor Constantine called the Council of Nicaea, the first ecumenical Christian council. 526 An earthquake killed about 300,000 people in Syria and Antiochia. 685 The Battle of Dunnichen or Nechtansmere was fought between a Pictish army under King Bridei III and the invading Northumbrians under King Ecgfrith, who were decisively defeated. 1217 The Second Battle of Lincoln was fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince Louis of France by William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke.

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May 19, 715 Gregory II (Saint Gregory) was elected Roman Catholic pope. 1499 Catherine of Aragon, was married by proxy to Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales. Catherine was 13 and Arthur was 12. 1535 French explorer Jacques Cartier set sail on his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona's two sons (whom Cartier had kidnapped during his first voyage). 1536 Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, was beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest.
1568 Queen Elizabeth I of England ordered the arrest of Mary, Queen of Scots.

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May 18, 1268 – The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, fell to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Battle of Antioch. 1291 the Crusaders abandoned Tyre to the Moslems, the prelude to the end of the final Crusade. 1152 Henry II of England married Eleanor of Aquitaine.

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May 17, 352 Liberius became pope of the Roman Catholic church. 1220 King Henry III of England Crowned -- again. Henry, who had been crowned at age nine four years earlier, underwent a second coronation at Westminster. 1521 Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, was executed for treason. 1536 George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford and four other men were executed for treason. 1590 Anne of Denmark was crowned Queen of Scotland.

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May 16, 218 Julia Maesa, aunt of the assassinated Caracalla, was banished to her home in Syria by the self-proclaimed emperor Macrinus and declared her 14-year old grandson Elagabalus, emperor of Rome.1152 Eleanor of Aquitaine married Henry Anjou, handing the future king of England most of France. 1204 Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders was crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire. 1527 The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-established itself as a republic.1532 Sir Thomas More resigned as Lord Chancellor of England. 1568 Mary, Queen of Scots, fled to England.

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May 15, 1252 Pope Innocent IV issued the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorized, but also limited, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition.
1265 Dante (Alighieri) was born. He was Italy's greatest poet, whose epic work, the Divine Comedy, ranks among the greatest works of world literature. 1525 The battle of Frankenhausen ended the German Peasants' War. 1536 Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, stood trial in London on charges of treason, adultery and incest. She was condemned to death by a specially-selected jury. 1567 Mary, Queen of Scots, married James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, her third husband. 1649 The 'Rump Parliament' under Oliver Cromwell declared England a 'commonwealth' or free state.

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May 14,964 Pope John XII died. John was the son of the ruler of Rome, Duke Alberic, and was made Pope when he was about 18. He crowned Otto I Holy Roman Emperor, then broke with him after Otto issued orders that the pope take an oath of obedience to him. The emperor replaced John with Leo VIII, who was in turn deposed by John.
Shortly thereafter, Pope John died in the arms of his mistress. He was not yet 30. 1264: Henry III captured at Battle of Lewes.In a revolt prompted by Henry's refusal to implement the Provisions of Oxford, Henry was captured by Simon de Montfort in this battle in Sussex and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.1572: Gregory XIII elected pope. Gregory is best known for his calendar reform, but he also promoted Church reform and the Counter Reformation.

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May 13, 1373 – Julian of Norwich had visions which were later transcribed in her Revelations of Divine Love. 1497 – Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia) excommunicated Girolamo Savonarola (Italian Dominican friar and an influential contributor to the politics of Florence. He vehemently preached against the moral corruption of much of the clergy at the time,and his main opponent was Rodrigo Borgia). 1515 Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk are officially married at Greenwich. 1568 Battle of Langside: the forces of Mary, Queen of Scots, are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother.