History Trivia - Swithun becomes Bishop of Winchester

October 30

 852 Swithun, counselor to Kings Egbert and Aethelwulf, became Bishop of Winchester. 

1270 The Eighth Crusade and siege of Tunis ended by an agreement between Charles I of Sicily (brother to King Louis IX of France, who had died months earlier) and the sultan of Tunis.

 1470 Henry VI of England returned to the English throne after the Earl of Warwick defeated the Yorkists in battle. 

History Trivia - Oliver Cromwell victory at Battle of Marston Moor

 July 2

862 St. Swithun, Bishop of Winchester and royal counselor to Kings Egbert and Aethelwulf, died.

1489 Thomas Cranmer, leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and, for a short time, Mary I, was born.

1644 Oliver Cromwell achieved his first major victory over Royalist forces at the Battle of Marston Moor.

History Trivia - Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine.

January 3

1098 Walkelin, first Norman bishop of Winchester, died. 

 1431 Joan of Arc was handed over to Bishop Pierre Cauchon. Legal proceedings began on 9 January 1431 at Rouen, the seat of the English occupation government where Joan was found guilty of heresy, and was burned at the stake on May 30.

1496 Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tested a flying machine.

1521  Pope Leo X excommunicated Martin Luther, German theologian and Protestant reformer for heresy, in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.