322 BC Battle of Crannon: Macedonian
forces of Antipater and Craterus and rebellious Greek forces led by the
Athenians, was the decisive battle of the Lamian War, following the death of Alexander
the Great. The Greeks sued for peace which marked the end of city-state freedom
from Macedonian hegemony in Greece.
317 Roman Emperor Flavius Julius
Constantius was born.
626 The Avar and Slav armies left the siege of
Constantinople, which kept the Byzantine Empire intact.
936 Coronation of King
Otto I of Germany. He would become the first Holy Roman Emperor since
Charlemagne.
1420 Construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore began in
Florence.
1427 The Visconti of Milan's fleet was destroyed by the Venetians on
the Po River.
1485 Henry VII's army landed in Milford Harbor, South-Wales, a
Lancastrian stronghold, and amassed an army to seize the crown from Richard III
who was defeated at the Battle of Bosworth Field on August 22, 1485.
1606 The
first documented performance of Macbeth was performed at the Great Hall at
Hampton Court.
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