On September 5
394 Theodosius reunited the entire Roman empire for the last time with
victory at the Battle of Frigidus.
1198 Philips van Zwaben Hohenstaufen crowned
king of Roman Catholic Germany.
1316 John XXII the second Roman Catholic pope
to reside in Avignon, France rather than Rome, was crowned.
1548 Catherine
Parr, sixth wife of Henry VIII, died.
1557 Bishop Stephen Gardiner was
imprisoned; he remained in the Tower of London for most of the reign of Edward
VI.
1550 William Cecil (Lord Chancellor to Queen Elizabeth I) appointed himself
English minister of foreign affairs.
1666 Great Fire of London ended:
10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral were destroyed, but only 16
people were known to have died.
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