September 28
48 BC Pompey the Great was murdered on the
orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt.
1066 William the Conqueror and his
Norman army arrived in England, landing at Pevensey, beginning the Norman
Conquest.
1106 The Battle of Tinchebrai: Henry I of England defeated his
brother, Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy. Henry's knights won a decisive
victory, capturing Robert and imprisoning him in England and then Wales until
Robert's death in Cardiff Castle. England and Normandy remained under a single
ruler until 1204.
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