History Trivia

On September 30 

 420 Saint Jerome, one of the great scholars of the early Christian church, died at age 80.  579 Pope Benedict I died .  1227 Pope Nicholas IV, the first Franciscan pontiff, was born. 1399 Richard II of England was deposed; Henry of Lancaster declared himself king as Henry IV.  1544 Henry VIII withdrew his armies out of France. 1555 Oxford Bishop Nicholas Ridley was sentenced to death as a heretic.

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