History Trivia

July 17, 180 – Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa were executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world. 1203 The Fourth Crusade - Constantinople captured. The Byzantine emperor Alexius III Angelus fled from his capital into exile. 1453 Hundred Years' War: Battle of Castillon: The French under Jean Bureau defeated the English under the Earl of Shrewsbury, who was killed in the battle in Gascony. 1586 A meeting took place at Lüneburg (a town in the German state of Lower Saxony) between several some evangelical Princes and Electors, and representatives of the King of Navarre, the King of Denmark and the Queen of England in order to discuss the formation of an 'evangelical' league of defense, called the 'Confederatio Militiae Evangelicae', against the Catholic League.