History Trivia

April 4,186 Caracalla, Emperor of Rome, (211-217) was born. 527 Justinian I was created co-emperor. Justinian was the nephew of the Emperor of the Eastern Roman empire, and with the help of his ambitious wife Theodora, he gained the trust of his uncle and was named co-emperor barely 4 months before the older man died. 1081 Alexius Comnenus crowned emperor. Alexius seized the throne from Nicephorus III. During his reign, he would succeed in reviving the Eastern Roman Empire after half a century of ineffective rule. 1081 Alexios I Komnenos was crowned Byzantine emperor at Constantinople, beginning the Komnenian dynasty. 1581 Francis Drake was knighted for completing a circumnavigation of the world.