December 23 962 – With the leadership of the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, the Byzantine troops storm the city of Aleppo, recovering the tunic of John the Baptist during the Byzantine-Arab Wars 1620 – Construction of the first permanent European settlement of Plymouth in New England begins in present-day Massachusetts 1688 – King James II […]

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