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Today In History 8/5
910 The last major Viking army to raid England is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the ... Read more
910 The last major Viking army to raid England is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the ... Read more
338 BC Macedonian army led by Philip II defeats combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle ... Read more
10bce Roman Emperor Claudius I, who extended Roman rule in North Africa and made Britain a province, was ... Read more
30 BCÂ Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves minor victory over Octavian, but most of his army subsequently ... Read more
1178 Frederick I Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor, crowned King of Burgundy. 1419 First defenestration of Prague: anti-Catholic Hussites, ... Read more
1519 Francisco Pizarro receives royal charter for the west coast of South America. 1533 Francisco Pizarro orders the ... Read more
306 Constantine I is proclaimed Roman Emperor by his troops. 1814 Near Niagara Falls on this day in ... Read more
1215 Frederick II crowned King of the Romans (King of the Germans) in Aachen. 1579 Francis Drake departs ... Read more
1099 First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom ... Read more
356 BC Herostratus sets fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of ... Read more
1333 Scottish forces were defeated by the English under King Edward III in the Battle of Halidon Hill. ... Read more
64 Great Fire of Rome begins under the Emperor Nero. 1195 The Almohads were victorious over the forces ... Read more
180 6 inhabitants of Carthage, North Africa executed for being Christians. Earliest record of Christianity in this part ... Read more
622 Muslim Era begins – Muhammad begins flight from Mecca to Medina (Hijra). 1054 Humbert of Silva Candida, ... Read more
1099 Jerusalem captured in First Crusade. 1570 Pope Pius V introduces a standardised Roman Missal (text of the ... Read more
1713 Spain and Britain signed one of the treaties of Utrecht, this one giving Gibraltar and Minorca to ... Read more
1389 Geoffrey Chaucer is named chief clerk by Richard II. 1679 Britain’s King Charles II ratifies Habeas Corpus ... Read more
1302 In the Battle of the Golden Spurs, an untrained Flemish infantry militia defeated a professional force of ... Read more
1553 Lady Jane Grey, the 15-year-old great-granddaughter of Henry VII, became queen of England, but her reign lasted ... Read more
1401 Turko-Mongol ruler Tamerlane (Timur) destroys Baghdad, killing 20,000. 1540 The marriage of King Henry VIII of England ... Read more
1497 Vasco da Gama sailed from Lisbon with a fleet of four vessels, and he ultimately opened a ... Read more
1124 Tyrus surrenders to Crusaders. 1307 King Edward I of England died on his way to subdue the ... Read more