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480 BC Greco-Persian Wars: Battle of Artemisium – the
Persians won a naval victory over the Greeks in an engagement fought near
Artemisium, a promontory on the north coast of Euboea (island of central Greece
in the Aegean Sea).
355 Claudius Silvanus, accused of treason, proclaimed
himself Roman Emperor against Constantius II.
1492 Rodrigo Borgia became Pope
Alexander VI. One of the most notorious men to sit on the papal throne,
Alexander VI was worldly, ambitious and ruthless. However he was a patron of
the arts (Raphael, Michelangelo and Pinturicchio) and also encouraged the
development of education as evidenced by the issuance of a Papal Bull at the
request of William Elphinstone, Bishop of Aberdeen, and King James IV of
Scotland, founding King’s College, Aberdeen.
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