November
27
176 Emperor Marcus Aurelius granted his son
Commodus the rank of Imperator and made him Supreme Commander of the Roman
legions.
511 Clovis, King of the Franks
(Merovingian Dynasty) died.
1095 Pope Urban II declared the First Crusade to
reclaim sacred Christian sites from Islamic hands at the Council of
Clermont.
1295 the first elected
representatives from Lancashire were called to Westminster by King Edward I to
attend what later became known as "The Model Parliament".
1582
William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway.
1703 The first Eddystone Lighthouse
(south west of Rame Head, UK) was destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703.
November 22
498 Symmachus Consecrated. Christian convert
Symmachus was chosen by the Roman Church to succeed Pope Anastasius II at the
same time a Byzantine faction selected Laurentius. Both individuals were
consecrated on the same date, and the Ostrogothic King Theodoric the Great was
asked to choose the new pope. He chose Symmachus.
845 the first King of all
Brittany, Nominoe, defeated the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of
Ballon near Redon.
1307 Pope Clement V issued the papal bull Pastoralis
Praeeminentiae which instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all
Templars and seize their assets.
1428 Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick and also known
as known as Warwick the Kingmaker, was born.
October 18,
768 Charlemagne and his brother Carloman were
crowned co-rulers of the Franks, after the death of their father, Pepin the
Short.
1009 The Church of the Holy Sepulcher, a Christian church in Jerusalem,
was completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who
hacked the Church's foundations down to bedrock.
1016 Canute of Denmark became
the heir of Edmund Ironside, King of England, with victory at Ashingdon, and
Edmund agreed to divide England between himself and Canute. At the end of
November, however, Edmund died, and Canute became king of all England.
1529 Henry VIII ordered Cardinal
Wolsey to hand over the great seal.
October
9
28 BC The Temple of Apollo was dedicated on the Palatine Hill in Rome.
768 Carloman
I and Charlemagne were crowned Kings of The Franks.
1000 Leif Ericson, the
great Norse explorer, became the first European to land in North America, which
he called Vinland. The date is celebrated as Leif Ericson Day in Norway.
1529 Cardinal Thomas Wolsey was indicted for using his power illegally.
His failure to secure the annulment of Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is
widely perceived to have directly caused his downfall and arrest.
1536 The
Pilgrimage of Grace, popular rising in York, Yorkshire, in protest against
Henry VIII's break with the Roman Catholic Church and the Dissolution of the
Monasteries, as well as other specific political, social and economic
grievances, began.
April 10
847 St Leo IV began his reign as
Catholic Pope.
879 Louis III became King of the Western Franks.
1500 Ludovico
Sforza was captured by the Swiss troops at Novara and was handed over to the
French.
1512 James V of Scotland was born. His only legitimate child to survive
to adulthood was Mary, Queen of Scots. His illegitimate son, the Earl of Moray,
became regent of Scotland when Mary abdicated.
