History Trivia

March 30,317 BC, Phocion, the great Athenian general and statesman, died at an approximate age of 85. 240 BC 1st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.1135 AD Maimonides was born. He was a Jewish philosopher who tried to harmonize Judaism with the teachings of Aristotle in his principal work, The Guide of the Perplexed, in 1190. 1191 Celestine III elected Pope. Student and friend of Pierre Abélard, Giacinto Bobone was 85 years old and only a Deacon when he became Pope Celestine III. He confirmed the order of Teutonic Knights, and his pontificate was marked by problems with Emperor Henry VI. 1282 The people of Sicily rebelled against the Angevin king Charles I, in what became known as the Sicilian Vespers. 1296 Edward I sacked Berwick-upon-Tweed, during armed conflict between Scotland and England. 1603 The Nine Years' War between England and Irish rebel Hugh O'Neill ended with the surrender of the Irish.