February 28
1066 Westminster Abbey opened.
1574 Two Englishmen and an Irishman were burnt
for heresy on the orders of the Holy Office of the Inquisition.
1638 The Scottish
National Covenant was signed in Edinburgh, which denounced the
attempts by Charles I to force the Scottish church to conform to English
practices, at the same time urging loyalty to the king.
July 26
796 Offa, king of Mercia died. Many
historians regard Offa as the most powerful Anglo-Saxon king before Alfred the Great.
1267 Inquisition formed
in Rome under Pope Clement IV.
1469 Wars of the Roses: the Battle of Edgecote Moor
pitted the forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick against those of
Edward IV of England took place.
1497
"Edward IV's son" Perkin Warbeck’s army landed in Cork.
May 15
1213 King John named Stephen Langton Archbishop of Canterbury
after submitting to the Pope's authority and offering to make England and
Ireland papal fiefs, which resulted in Pope Innocent III lifting the interdict
of 1208.
1252 Pope Innocent IV issued the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which
authorized, but also limited, the torture of heretics in the Medieval
Inquisition.
1265 Dante Alighieri, author of the Divine Comedy, was born.
The Other Boleyn Girl
1536
Anna Boleyn and Lord Rochford stood trial on the charges of adultery/incest.
1567 Mary, Queen of Scots, married James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, her
third husband.
1649 The 'Rump Parliament' under Oliver Cromwell declared
England a 'commonwealth' or free state.
