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Showing posts with label Oliver Cromwell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oliver Cromwell. Show all posts
Saturday, January 30, 2016

History Trivia - Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell, ritually executed

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January 30 1661 Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England was ritually executed two years after his death, on the ...
Thursday, July 2, 2015

History Trivia - Oliver Cromwell victory at Battle of Marston Moor

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 J uly 2 862 St. Swithun, Bishop of Winchester and royal counselor to Kings Egbert and Aethelwulf, died. 1489 Thomas Cranmer, lead...
Sunday, June 14, 2015

History Trivia - Juan Borgia, favorite son of Pope Alexander VI, murdered

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June 14 1381 The Peasant's Revolt, led by Wat Tyler, climaxed when rebels plundered and burned the Tower of London, and killed the...
Tuesday, March 31, 2015

History Trivia - Bernard of Clairvaux urges the necessity of a Second Crusade.

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March 31  307 after divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine married Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Maximian, but ...
Friday, January 30, 2015

History Trivia - King Charles I of England beheaded

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January 30  1487 Bell chimes were invented. 1648 Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück was signed, which ende...
Saturday, June 14, 2014

History Trivia - Giovanni (Juan) Borgia murdered

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June 14 1381 The Peasant's Revolt, led by Wat Tyler, climaxed when rebels plundered and burned the Tower of London, and killed the A...
Thursday, May 15, 2014

History Trivia - Anna Boleyn and Lord Rochford tried on the charges of adultery/incest

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May 15 1213 King John named Stephen Langton Archbishop of Canterbury after submitting to the Pope's authority and offering to make E...
Monday, December 16, 2013

History Trivia - Englands Henry VI crowned King of France at Notre Dame in Paris

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December 16 882 Marinus I was elected Roman Catholic pope, replacing the murdered John VIII. 955 Ottaviano (age 18), the only son of...