History Trivia - Richard The Lionheart dies in France

April 6

 

46 BC Julius Caesar defeated Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato in the battle of Thapsus.

402 Stilicho stymied the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia.

774 Charles the Great affirmed Pippins promise of Quiercy, protecting the States of the Church.

1199 England's King Richard I, the Lion-Hearted, died from an infection following the removal of an arrow from his shoulder.

1320 The Scots reaffirmed their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.

1453 Mehmed II began his siege of Constantinople (Istanbul), which fell on May 29. 

1483 Raphael was born.