Mary Ann Bernal

January 30 1661 Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England was ritually executed two years after his death, on the ...

June 29 1509 Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England died. 1613 London's Globe Theatre burns down when a theatrical ...

May 5,  984 Gerberga of Saxony, Queen of Western Francia died. 1215 Rebel barons renounced their allegiance to King John of Engla...

March 27 1599 Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex and a favorite of Elizabeth I, became Lord Lieutenant General of Ireland during th...

February 28 1066 Westminster Abbey opened. 1574 Two Englishmen and an Irishman were burnt for heresy on the orders of the Holy Offi...

February 9  1119 Callistus II became pope. He settled the lay investiture disagreement and presided over the ninth Ecumenical Council...

January 10 69 Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus was appointed by Galba to deputy Roman Emperor. 236 Pope Fabian succeeded Anterus...

June 29 512 a solar eclipse was recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland. 1194 Sverre was crowned King of Norway. 1509 Marga...

April 13  1111 Henry V was crowned Holy Roman Emperor. 1204 Constantinople fell to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ...

March 10 241 BC A crushing Roman naval victory over the Carthaginians in the Battle of Aegus ended the First Punic War. 49 BC Julius...

January 30 1077 Pope Gregory VII pardoned German emperor Henry IV. 1487 Bell chimes were invented. 1522 Duke of Albany took capt...

January 10  49 BC Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon without disbanding his army, which signaled the start of civil war in Rome. Pompey a...