March
25
47 BC Ptolemy XII, King of
Egypt and brother of Cleopatra, drowned in the Nile, probably with an assist by
Julius Caesar, who thereby made Cleopatra queen.
421 City of Venice founded.
708 Constantine I began his reign as
Catholic Pope.
1199 Richard I was wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting
France which led to his death on April 6.
1306 Robert the Bruce was crowned
King of Scotland.
October
28
306 Maxentius was proclaimed Roman Emperor.
312 Constantine I defeated
Maxentius and became the sole ruler of the Roman empire in the west with
victory at the Milvian Bridge.
1017 Emperor Henry III was born. Holy Roman
Emperor and German King, Henry was the last emperor to effectively dominate the
papacy.
1216 Henry III of England was crowned. Henry was the first English
monarch to be crowned while still a minor.
October 8
314 Roman Emperor Licinius was defeated by
Constantine I at the Battle of Cibalae, losing his European territories.
Co-author of the Edict of Milan that granted official toleration to Christians
in the Roman Empire, for the majority of his reign he was the rival of
Constantine I until he was finally defeated at the Battle of Adrianople, and
was executed on Constantine's orders.
451 the fourth Ecumenical Council of the
Roman Catholic Church ruled that Jesus Christ is "in two natures" in
opposition to the doctrine of Monophysitism.
876 Charles the Bald is defeated
at the Battle of Andernach.
King John in Robin Hood
1200 Isabella of Angoulême, second wife of King
John, was crowned Queen consort of England. Isabella had five children by the
king including his heir Henry who succeeded John as Henry III of England. In
1220 Isabella married Hugh X of Lusignan, Count of La Marche, by whom she had
another nine children.
