History Trivia - Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica.

Sept 22,

66 Emperor Nero created the Legion I Italica. 

1499 Switzerland became an independent state. 

1515 Anne of Cleves was born. The fourth wife of Henry VIII, Anne was able to obtain a divorce and maintained a friendly relationship with the Tudor family. 

History Trivia - Harold Godwinson (last Anglo-Saxon King of England) crowned

January 6

1017 Canute I crowned King of England. He was also King Canute II of Denmark and King Canute of Norway, and because of the empire he built in Britain and Scandinavia, he is sometimes known as Canute the Great.

1066 Harold Godwinson (last Anglo-Saxon King of England) was crowned, most likely in Westminster Abbey.

1367 King Richard II of England was born. 

 1540 King Henry VIII of England married Anne of Cleves. The marriage lasted six months after which time Henry obtained a divorce and married Catherine Howard.

History Trivia - first English translation of the entire bible is printed, with translations by Tyndale and Coverdale.

October 4

 1518 A treaty was signed between France and England that included a betrothal between Princess Mary and the young dauphin François.

1535 the first English translation of the entire bible was printed, with translations by Tyndale and Coverdale.

1539 Henry VIII agreed to marry Anne of Cleves 

1582 the Gregorian calendar was reformed.  To adjust the inaccuracy in the date caused by an extra day per century in the Julian calendar, Pope Gregory XIII ordered ten days to be subtracted from October of 1582. The calendar jumped from October 4 to October 15 and the new Gregorian calendar, used today, was devised.

History Trivia - Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica.

Sept 22

 66 Emperor Nero created the Legion I Italica.

1499 Switzerland became an independent state.

1515 A

nne of Cleves was born. The fourth wife of Henry VIII, Anne was able to obtain a divorce and maintained a friendly relationship with the Tudor family.

1586 Battle of Zutphen was a confrontation of the Eighty Years' War fought between forces of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, aided by the English, against the Spanish, who sought to regain the northern Netherlands. Elizabeth I sent troops under the earl of Leicester to aid the rebels, however the Spanish were victorious.

History Trivia - Gregorian calendar reformed

October 4

1518 A treaty was signed between France and England that included a betrothal between Princess Mary and the young dauphin François.

1535 the first English translation of the entire bible was printed, with translations by Tyndale and Coverdale.

1539 Henry VIII agreed to marry Anne of Cleves 

1582 the Gregorian calendar was reformed.  To adjust the inaccuracy in the date caused by an extra day per century in the Julian calendar, Pope Gregory XIII ordered ten days to be subtracted from October of 1582. The calendar jumped from October 4 to October 15 and the new Gregorian calendar, used today, was devised.

History Trivia - Switzerland becomes an independent state

Sept 22,

66 Emperor Nero created the Legion I Italica.

530 Both Boniface II and Dioscorus (antipope) were consecrated. The short-lived schism ended with Dioscorus' death on October 14, 530.

1499 Switzerland became an independent state.

 1515 Anne of Cleves was born. The fourth wife of Henry VIII, Anne was able to obtain a divorce and maintained a friendly relationship with the Tudor family.

1586 Battle of Zutphen was a confrontation of the Eighty Years' War fought between forces of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, aided by the English, against the Spanish, who sought to regain the northern Netherlands. Elizabeth I sent troops under the earl of Leicester to aid the rebels, however the Spanish were victorious.