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December 19 1154 – Henry II is crowned King of England 1562 – The Battle of Dreux begins the French Wars of Religion between the Catholics and Huguenots 1683 – The first Bourbon King of Spain, Philip V, is born 1732 – Benjamin Franklin published Poor Richard’s Almanack for the first time and it will […] The post This Day […]
December 17 1273 – Persian mystic and poet Rumi dies 1398 – The army of Mahmud Tughluk, Sultan of Delhi, is destroyed by the Mongols at Panipat 1526 – Pope Clemens VII publishes degree Cum ad zero, forming Inquisition 1538 – Pope Paul III excommunicates England’s King Henry VIII 1777 – The French foreign minister, […] The post This Day […]
December 16 705 – Chinese empress Wu Zetian dies 755 – The An Shi Rebellion begins during the Chinese Tang Dynasty as an Lushan revolts against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Fanyang 1431 – Henry VI of England is crowned King of France 1485 – First wife of Henry VIII, Catherine of Aragon, is born 1515 […] The post This Day […]
December 13 1577 – Francis Drake sets out for Plymouth, England on a mission to raid Spanish holdings and to explore the Pacific Ocean 1585 – Scottish poet William Drummond is born 1621 – The first American furs to be exported leave for England aboard Robert Cushman’s Fortune 1642 – Dutch navigator Abel Tasman discovers […] The post This Day […]
December 6 1240 – Batu Khan’s Mongols occupy and destroy Kiev 1421 – The youngest person to accede to the throne, Henry VI of England, is born 1492 – Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Santo Domingo 1749 – French-Canadian explorer La Verendrye dies 1861 – Union General George G. Meade leads a foraging […] The post This Day […]
December 1 1135 – Henry I of England dies and the crown is passed to his nephew, Stephen of Boise 1581 – After being tortured, Edmund Champion and other Jesuit martyrs are hanged at Tyburn, England for sedition 1761 – Swiss-born modeler in wax who founded the exhibition on London’s Baker Street, Madame Tussaud, is […] The post This Day […]
November 23 1248 – After a two-year siege, Seville, Spain surrenders to Ferdinand III of Castile 1499 – Perkin Warbeck, who invaded England claiming to be the lost son of King Edward IV, is hanged, allegedly for trying to escape from the Tower of London. His story was written by the Tudors-history’s victors and it […] The post This Day […]
November 14 1501 – Arthur Tudor of England marries Katherine of Aragon 1650 – William III, King of England is born 1765 – American engineer who invented the first steamboat, Robert Fulton is born 1812 – Napoleon Bonaparte’s army retreats from Moscow 1840 – French impressionist painter Claude Monet is born 1851 – Herman Melville’s […] The post This Day […]