History Trivia - Martin Luther burns copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine

December 10,

1520 Martin Luther burned his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenberg's Elster Gate.  

The Tudors

1541 Thomas Culpepper and Francis Dereham were executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and fifth wife of Henry VIII. Culpepper was beheaded and Dereham was hanged, drawn, and quartered, and their heads were placed on top of London Bridge. Catherine remained imprisoned in Syon Abbey until Parliament passed a bill of attainder on 7 February 1542. The bill made it treason, and punishable by death, for a queen consort to fail to disclose her sexual history to the king within twenty days of their marriage, or to incite someone to commit adultery with her. This solved the matter of Catherine's supposed precontract and made her unequivocally guilty. She was subsequently taken to the Tower on 10 February and was executed on February 13th.

History Trivia - Peace of Etaples

Perkin Warbeck

November 9, 1492 - Peace of Etaples (northern France) between Henry VII and Charles VIII.  The treaty served to end an English invasion of France launched in order to stop France's support for the pretender Perkin Warbeck.  By this treaty, France agreed to expel Warbeck and pay England an indemnity of  159,000 British pounds.  The treaty was ratified in December.

1494 The de'Medici family were expelled from Florence.

1541 Queen Catherine Howard was confined in London Tower.

History Trivia - Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, executed

February 13,

1542 Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, was executed for adultery.

1633 Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.

1692 Massacre of Glencoe Scotland where 38 members of the MacDonald clan were murdered by soldiers of the Campbell clan for not pledging allegiance to William of Orange.

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 - Queen Catherine Howard confined in London Tower.

November 9

694 Egica, a King of the Visigoths of Hispania, accused the Jews of aiding Muslims, and sentenced all Jews to slavery.

Perkin Warbeck

 1492 Peace of Etaples (northern France) between Henry VII and Charles VIII. The treaty served to end an English invasion of France launched in order to stop France's support for the pretender Perkin Warbeck. By this treaty, France agreed to expel Warbeck and pay England an indemnity of £159,000. The treaty was ratified in December

1494 The de' Medici family were expelled from Florence.

Traitor's Gate

1541 Queen Catherine Howard was confined in London Tower.

History Trivia - Catherine Howard confined in London Tower

November 9

694 Egica, a King of the Visigoths of Hispania, accused the Jews of aiding Muslims, and sentenced all Jews to slavery.

1282 Pope Martin IV excommunicated King Peter III of Aragon.

1492 Peace of Etaples (northern France) between Henry VII and Charles VIII. The treaty served to end an English invasion of France launched in order to stop France's support for the pretender Perkin Warbeck. By this treaty, France agreed to expel Warbeck and pay England an indemnity of £159,000. The treaty was ratified in December

1494 The de' Medici family were expelled from Florence.

1541 Queen Catherine Howard was confined in London Tower.