Saturday, August 3, 2013

History Trivia - Vikings defeated by Louis III of France

August 3

 8 Roman Empire general Tiberius defeated Dalmatians on the river Bathinus (southern Croatia).

435 Deposed Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, was exiled by Roman Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt. Nestorianism is the error that Jesus is two distinct persons.

881 Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu: Louis III of France defeated the Vikings, an event celebrated in the German poem Ludwigslied.

1291 the Crusaders abandoned Tortosa (province of Tarragona, in Catalonia, Spain) to the Moslems.

 1347 Six burghers of the surrounded French city of Calais surrendered to Edward III of England, hoping to relieve the siege.

1387 Olaf V Haakonsson, King of Denmark/ Norway died.

1460 King James II of Scotland died.

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