History Trivia - William the Conqueror sets sail to England

September 2

 489  Odoacer (first Germanic king of Italy) attacked Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths at the Battle of Verona, and was defeated again. 

 1066 William the Conqueror, with a Norman army of 5,000 men, set sail from France for England, to claim the English throne. 

1540 Pope Paul III approved the first outline of the organization of the Jesuit Society, drafted by St. Ignatius of Loyola, the order's founder. 

History Trivia - University of Basle in Switzerland founded

April 4,

86 Caracalla, Emperor of Rome, was born.

527 Justinian I was created co-emperor.

1081 Alexius Comnenus crowned emperor. Alexius seized the throne from Nicephorus III. During his reign, he would succeed in reviving the Eastern Roman Empire after half a century of ineffective rule.

1460 University of Basle in Switzerland founded.

1541 Ignatius of Loyola became the first superior-general of the Jesuit Order.

1581 Francis Drake was knighted for completing a circumnavigation of the world.

1588 Christian IV succeeded Frederik II as king of Denmark.