Posts published in “Today in History”

  1002 – English king Æthelred II orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice’s Day massacre. 1093 –…

295 – Origin of Era of Ascension 1028 – Future Byzantine empress Zoe takes the throne as empress consort to Romanos III Argyros. 1330 –…

308 – At Carnuntum, Emperor emeritus Diocletian confers with Galerius, Augustus of the East, and Maximianus, the recently returned former Augustus of the West, in…

1293 – Raden Wijaya is crowned as the first monarch of Majapahit kingdom of Java, taking throne name Kertarajasa Jayawardhana. 1580 – After a three-day…

694 – At the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to…

960 – Battle of Andrassos: Byzantines under Leo Phokas the Younger score a crushing victory over the Hamdanid Emir of Aleppo, Sayf al-Dawla. 1278 –…

335 – Athanasius is banished to Trier, on charge that he prevented a grain fleet from sailing to Constantinople. 680 – The Sixth Ecumenical Council…

  355 – Roman emperor Constantius II promotes his cousin Julian to the rank of Caesar, entrusting him with the government of the Prefecture of…

1138 – Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign. 1605 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy…

  1429 – Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War: Joan of Arc liberates Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier. 1501 – Catherine of Aragon (later Henry VIII’s first wife) meets Arthur Tudor, Henry…

1468 – Liège is sacked by Charles I of Burgundy’s troops. 1492 – Peace of Etaples between Henry VII and Charles VIII. 1493 – Christopher…

619 – A qaghan of the Western Turkic Khaganate is assassinated in a Chinese palace by Eastern Turkic rivals after the approval of Tang emperor…

  365 – The Alemanni cross the Rhine and invade Gaul. Emperor Valentinian I moves to Paris to command the army and defend the Gallic…

1740 – Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxonyrefuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction and the War of the Austrian…

1588 – The English defeated the Spanish Armada in the Battle of Gravelines. 1148 – The Siege of Damascus ends in a decisive crusader defeat…

1775 – A postal system was established by the 2nd Continental Congress of the United States. The first Postmaster General was Benjamin Franklin. 1788 –…

1806 – A Spanish army repelled the British during their attempt to retake Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1811 – Venezuela became the first South American country…

1496 – Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine. 1521 – Martin Luther excommunicated by Pope Leo X from the Roman Catholic Church 1653…

1764 – Gov Winthrop Telescope is destroyed in a Harvard fire 1839 – Charles Darwin elected Fellow of the Royal Society 1857 – The University…

1793 – Prussia & Russia sign partition treaty, dividing Poland. 1793 – Louis XVI of France is executed by the guillotine in Paris, following his…