June 5
70 Titus and his Roman legions breached the middle wall of
Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem.
1099 Members of the First Crusade
witnessed an eclipse of the moon and interpreted it as a sign they would
recapture Jerusalem.
1294 Saint Celestine V was elected Roman Catholic pope. He
was unhappy with the office and abdicated before the year was out.
1341 Edmund
of Langley, first Duke of York, son of Edward III of England was born.
1798 The
Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster
was defeated.
October 23
42
BC Roman Republican civil wars: Second Battle of Philippi – Mark Antony and
Octavian decisively defeated Brutus' army. Brutus committed suicide.
425
Valentinian III was elevated as Roman Emperor, at the age of 6.
502 The Synodus Palmaris, called by Theodoric
the Great ( king of the Ostrogoths,
ruler of Italy, regent of the Visigoths , and a viceroy
of the Eastern Roman Empire), discharged
Pope Symmachus of all charges, thus ending the schism of Antipope Laurentius.
1456 St. John of Capistrano died. A great Franciscan preacher, St. John led an
army that liberated Belgrade from a Turkish invasion.
1641 Rebellion in
Ireland: Catholics, under Phelim O'Neil, rose against the Protestants and
massacred men, women and children to the number of 40,000 (also reported at
100,000).
1642 Royalist forces defeated the Parliamentarians at Edgehill, the
first major battle of the English Civil War.
