1111 Henry V was crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
1204 Constantinople fell to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.
1250 The Seventh Crusade was defeated in Egypt; Louis IX of France was captured.
1256 The Grand Union of the Augustinian order formed when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.
1598 Henry IV of France issued the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots. (Edict repealed in 1685.)
1640 Charles I's eleven years of personal rule end with the calling of the 'Short Parliament' at Westminster.
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