History Trivia

On April 30, 0030 Jesus of Nazareth was crucified. In 313 Valerius Licinianus Licinius, Roman emperor ( 308 to 324), unified the whole of the eastern empire under his own rule. In 1250 King Louis IX of France was ransomed for one million dollars. In 1527 Henry VIII and King Francis of France signed the treaty of Westminster and in 1563 all Jews were expelled from France by order of Charles VI.

History Trivia

On April 29, 1289 , Qala'un, the Sultan of Egypt, captured Tripoli. In 1429 Joan of Arc led Orleans, France, to victory over Britain. In 1661 The Chinese Ming dynasty occupied Taiwan and in 1672 King Louis XIV of France invaded the Netherlands.

History Trivia

On April 28, 357, Constantius II visited Rome for the first time and in 1282 villagers in Palermo led a revolt against French rule in Sicily.

History Trivia

On April 27 4977 B.C., the universe was created, according to German mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler, considered a founder of modern science. Kepler is best known for his theories explaining the motion of planets. Kepler was born on December 27, 1571, in Weil der Stadt, Germany. As a university student, he studied the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus' theories of planetary ordering. Copernicus (1473-1543) believed that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the solar system, a theory that contradicted the prevailing view of the era that the sun revolved around the earth.

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On April 26, 1478, Pazzi conspirators attacked Lorenzo and killed Giuliano de'Medici. AND on April 26, 1514, Copernicus made his first observations of Saturn.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is widely believed to be the most useful and reliable history of England from the Roman conquest, through to the eleventh century. Although only nine copies of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle survive, at one time, there were multiple copies of the Chronicle, which were distributed to religious houses throughout England, with further copies being made by monks. Once copies had been made of the original, the documents were then independently updated at the monastery where they were housed. This means that there were many different versions in existence, each of which had initially been copied from the original.

History Trivia: Easter Rebellion in Dublin

April 24, 1916 : Easter Rebellion begins in Dublin. The Irish Republican Brotherhood, a secret organization of Irish nationalists led by Patrick Pearse, launched the so-called Easter Rebellion, an armed uprising against British rule. Assisted by militant Irish socialists under James Connolly, Pearse and his fellow Republicans rioted and attacked British provincial government headquarters across Dublin and seized the Irish capital's General Post Office. Following these successes, they proclaimed the independence of Ireland, which had been under the repressive thumb of the United Kingdom for centuries, and by the next morning were in control of much of the city. Later that day, however, British authorities launched a counteroffensive, and by April 29 the uprising had been crushed. Nevertheless, the Easter Rebellion is considered a significant marker on the road to establishing an independent Irish republic.