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Showing posts with label Hundred Years War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hundred Years War. Show all posts
Sunday, September 3, 2017

How the Longbow Revolutionised Warfare in the Middle Ages

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Made from History A medieval illustration of longbowmen in battle from Froissart’s Chronicle.  BY TOM CROPPER  The English Longbo...
Friday, January 29, 2016

History Trivia - Edward III of England crowned

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January 29 1327  Edward III was crowned   By laying claim to the French throne, he started the Hundred Years' War.   He also creat...
Sunday, October 25, 2015

History Trivia - Henry V victorious at the Battle of Agincourt

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October 25 1154 King Stephen of Blois (grandson of William the Conqueror) died. After the death of King Henry I, Stephen took the...
Saturday, October 24, 2015

History Trivia - Treaty of Brétigny ratified at Calais

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October 24 439 Carthage, the leading Roman city in North Africa, fell to Genseric and the Vandals.   1360 The Treaty of Brétign...
Saturday, September 19, 2015

History Trivia - Battle of Poitiers - Edward, the Black Prince, defeats the French

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  Sept 19  335 Dalmatius was raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I.  912 Emperor Leo VI was born. Known as th...
Tuesday, September 1, 2015

10 things you (probably) didn't know about the Middle Ages

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History Extra It is one of the most fascinating periods in history, popularised by Magna Carta, the Black Death, and the Hundred Years W...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

History Trivia - First stone of the Bastille laid

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April 22 238 Year of the Six Emperors: The Roman Senate outlawed emperor Maximinus Thrax for his bloodthirsty proscriptions in Rome an...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

History Trivia - Battle at Bedriacum - Vespasian ascends the throne

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April 15 69 - Battle at Bedriacum, North-Italy fought during the Year of the Four Emperors, which resulted in Vespasian ascending the ...
Monday, January 19, 2015

History Trivia - Rouen surrenders to Henry V

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January 19  1419 The French city of Rouen surrendered to Henry V in Hundred Years War. 1520 Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sw...
Saturday, October 25, 2014

History Trivia - Henry V victorious at Battle of Agincourt

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October 25 1154 King Stephen of Blois (grandson of William the Conqueror) died. After the death of King Henry I, Stephen took the throne...
Monday, September 1, 2014

History Trivia - Lady Anne Boleyn made Marchioness of Pembroke

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Sept 1  891 Northmen defeated near Louvaine, France.  1339 The Hundred Years' War officially began when King Edward III of Engla...
Friday, July 18, 2014

History Trivia - Great fire of Rome while Emperor Nero allegedly fiddles

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July 18 390 BC Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia – a Roman army was defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking o...
Thursday, July 17, 2014

History Trivia - The French defeat the English at the Battle of Castillon

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July 17 Edward the Elder     Alfred the Great    924 King Edward the Elder of England died. He became king in 899 upon the de...
Thursday, June 12, 2014

History Trivia - Peasants' Revolt in England, rebels arrive at Blackheath.

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June 12 28 Gaius Carrinas' triumphant procession through Rome. 1381 Peasants' Revolt in England, rebels arrived at Blackheat...