816     Pope Leo III (died) (born 750) 1381   Peasants’ Revolt: in England, rebels arrive at Blackheath. 1429   Hundred Years’ War: Joan of Arc leads the French army in their capture of the city and the English commander, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk in the second day of the Battle of Jargeau. 1519   … Continue reading →

1184 BC Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes. 1456   Anne Neville (born), English wife of Richard III of England (died 1485) 1509   Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon. 1727    George I of Great Britain (died) (born 1660) 1770   British explorer Captain James Cook runs aground on the… Continue reading →

323 BC Alexander the Great (died), Macedonian king (born 356 BC) 1552    Alexander Barclay (died), English poet (born 1476) 1692   Bridget Bishop (died), English-American woman executed for witchcraft (born 1632) 1692   Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for “Certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries“. 1713    Princess Caroline… Continue reading →

53       The Roman Emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia. 68       The Roman Emperor Nero (born 37) commits suicide, after quoting Homer’s Iliad, thus ending the Julio-Claudian Dynasty and starting the civil year known as the Year of the Four Emperors. 1534   Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the Saint Lawrence River. 1650   The Harvard… Continue reading →

68       The Roman Senate proclaims Galba as emperor. 632     Muhammad (died), Saudi Arabian prophet (born 570) 793     Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of the Scandinavian invasion of England. 1042   Edward the Confessor becomes King of England, one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England. 1154    William of… Continue reading →