History Trivia

February 21, 1173 Thomas Becket was canonized. The Archbishop of Canterbury, one-time friend and opponent to King Henry II of England, had been murdered less than three years earlier, and the swift canonization by Pope Alexander III was a clear message of rebuke to the king. 1431 Public trial of Joan of Arc began. 1437 King James I of Scotland was murdered in the Dominican Friary at Perth, which sparked a civil war.