History Trivia

July 8, 49 BC, the city of Paris, France was founded by the Parisii, a Celtic tribe of fisherman. 1099 First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers marched in a religious procession around Jerusalem after a priest by the name of Peter Desiderius claimed to have had a divine vision in which the ghost of Adhemar instructed them to fast for three days and then march in a barefoot procession around the city walls, after which the city would fall in nine days, following the Biblical example of Joshua at the siege of Jericho. The Crusaders were ultimately victorious in taking the city. 1283 War of the Sicilian Vespers: the naval Battle of Malta between the Aragonese and the Neapolitan fleets was fought.