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July 7, 1307 King Edward I of England died at age 68 on his way to subdue the new Scottish king, Robert Bruce. 1456 A retrial verdict acquitted Joan of Arc of heresy 25years after her death. 1575 Raid of the Redeswire, the last major battle between England and Scotland.The Scots proved victorious. The story of the skirmish was turned into a Border ballad.

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July 6, 1189, King Henry II of England died at the age of 55 and was succeeded by his son, Richard I, the Lionheart. 1348 Pope Clement VI issued a Papal bull protecting the Jews accused of having caused the Black Death. 1483 Richard III was crowned King of England. 1535 Sir Thomas More was executed for treason against King Henry VIII of England. 1560 The Treaty of Edinburgh was signed by Scotland and England.

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July 5, 1295 Scotland and France formed the Auld Alliance against England.The alliance played an important role in conflicts between both countries and England such as the Wars of Scottish Independence, the Hundred Years' War, the War of the League of Cambrai and the Rough Wooing when Henry VIII of England declared war in an attempt to force the Scots to agree to a marriage between his son Edward and Mary, Queen of Scots. Scotland benefited from French military aid. Edward VI continued the war until changing circumstances made it irrelevant in 1550. It was the last major conflict between Scotland and England before the Union of the Crowns in 1603, excepting perhaps the English intervention at the Siege of Leith in 1560, and was part of the Anglo-Scottish Wars of the 16th century.

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July 4, 993 Saint Ulrich of Augsburg (leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Germany) was canonized. He studied at the monastery school of St. Gall and received additional training under Adalbero, Bishop of Augsburg, who made him a chamberlain. He was appointed Bishop of Augsburg by King Henry in 923. 1054 A supernova was observed by the Chinese, Arabs and possibly Amerindians near the star Tauri. For several months it remained bright enough to be seen during the day. Its remnants form the Crab Nebula. 1120 Jordan II of Capua was anointed prince after his infant nephew's death. 1187 The Crusades: Battle of Hattin – Saladin defeated Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem.

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July 3, 324 – Battle of Adrianople: Constantine I defeated Licinius, who fled to Byzantium. 987 Hugh Capet was crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France until the French Revolution in 1792.

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July 2,419 Valentinian III, Emperor of Rome, 425-455, was crowned at the age of 6. 963 The imperial army proclaimed Nicephorus Phocas Emperor of the Romans on the plains outside Cappadocian Caesarea. 1298 Albert I was elected Holy Roman Emperor after successfully defeating Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg at the Battle of Göllheim.

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July 1, 69 Tiberius Julius Alexander ordered his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor. Vespasian refused to recognize Vitellius as emperor, and had his legions acclaim him as Imperator. 251 Battle of Abrittus: The Goths defeated emperor Decius and his son Herennius Etruscus on swampy ground in the Dobrudja (Moesia). Moesia was an ancient region and later Roman province situated in the Balkans, along the south bank of the Danube River. It included territories of modern-day Northern Republic of Macedonia, Southern Serbia (Upper Moesia),Northern Bulgaria, Romanian Dobrudja, Southern Moldova, and Budjak (Lower Moesia).