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1348 - Papal bull of Pope Clement VI issued during the Black Death stating that Jews were not to blame and urging their protection from harm. 1483 - King Richard III of England was crowned. 1699 - Captain William Kidd, the pirate, was captured in Boston, MA, and deported back to England. 1777 - Brit...

1687 - Isaac Newton's great work PRINCIPIA published by Royal Society in England. Outlines his laws of motion and universal gravitation. 1806 - A Spanish army repelled the British during their attempt to retake Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1811 - Venezuela became the first South American country to decl...

Cousi wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 04, 2019 2:09 pm

Happy Independence Day!

Hear! Hear!

1776 - The amended Declaration of Independence, prepared by Thomas Jefferson, was approved and signed by John Hancock, the President of the Continental Congress in America. “I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be com...

32 - Battle of Adrianople: Roman Emperor Constantine I defeats his co-emperor Licinius, who flees to Byzantium. 1187 - Battle of Horns of Hattin: Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, destroys Jerusalem's crusader army. 1608 - The city of Quebec was founded by Samuel de Champlain. 1775 - U.S. Gen. Geo...

626 - Incident at Xuanwu Gate: in what was essentially a palace coup for the throne of the Tang Dynasty, Prince Li Shimin ambushes and kills his rival brothers Prince Li Yuanji and Prince Li Jiancheng. 1298 - An army under Albert of Austria defeated and killed Adolf of Nassua near Worms, Germany. 16...

96 - Vespasian, a Roman Army leader, was hailed as a Roman Emperor by the Egyptian legions. 1543 - England and Scotland signed the peace of Greenwich. 1596 - An English fleet under the Earl of Essex, Lord Howard of Effingham and Francis Vere captured and sacked Cadiz, Spain. 1690 - The French defeat...

1097 - The Crusaders defeated the Turks at Dorylaeum. 1520 - Spanish conquistadors are expelled from Tenochtitlan following an Aztec revolt against their rule under Hernán Cortés during "La Noche Triste" (the Night of Sadness). Many soldiers drown in the escape, and Aztec emperor Montezuma II dies (...

1236 - Ferdinand III of Castile and Leon took Cordoba in Spain. 1613 - Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, England, burns down during a performance of "Henry VIII". 1767 - The British Parliament approved the Townshend Revenue Acts. The acts imposed import duties on glass, lead, paint, paper and t...

1389 - Ottomans defeat Serbian army in the bloody Battle of Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe. Strange how "Bloody" and "Kosovo" keep showing up in the same sentence through a lot of history. 1519 - King Carlos I elected Holy Roman Catholic Emperor Charles V. 16...