History Trivia - Peace of Etaples

Perkin Warbeck

November 9, 1492 - Peace of Etaples (northern France) between Henry VII and Charles VIII.  The treaty served to end an English invasion of France launched in order to stop France's support for the pretender Perkin Warbeck.  By this treaty, France agreed to expel Warbeck and pay England an indemnity of  159,000 British pounds.  The treaty was ratified in December.

1494 The de'Medici family were expelled from Florence.

1541 Queen Catherine Howard was confined in London Tower.

History Trivia - Perkin Warbeck’s army lands in Cork

July 26

796 Offa, king of Mercia died. Many historians regard Offa as the most powerful Anglo-Saxon king before Alfred the Great.

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.

History Trivia - Thespis of Icaria appears as an actor on stage

November 23,

534 BC Thespis of Icaria became the first actor to portray a character onstage, instead of speaking as him or herself.  He is said to have introduced the first principal actor in addition to the chorus

 800 Charlemagne arrived at Rome to investigate the alleged crimes of Pope Leo III.

 912 Otto I (The Great) was born. He was King of Germany from 936-983 and was the first king to become Holy Roman Emperor in 961.

955 King Eadred died. King of Wessex and acknowledged as overlord of Mercia, and the Danelaw, Eadred brought Northumbria permanently under English rule.

1499 Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck was hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London. He had invaded England in 1497, claiming to be the lost son of King Edward IV of England.

History Trivia - Queen Catherine Howard confined in London Tower.

November 9

694 Egica, a King of the Visigoths of Hispania, accused the Jews of aiding Muslims, and sentenced all Jews to slavery.

Perkin Warbeck

 1492 Peace of Etaples (northern France) between Henry VII and Charles VIII. The treaty served to end an English invasion of France launched in order to stop France's support for the pretender Perkin Warbeck. By this treaty, France agreed to expel Warbeck and pay England an indemnity of £159,000. The treaty was ratified in December

1494 The de' Medici family were expelled from Florence.

Traitor's Gate

1541 Queen Catherine Howard was confined in London Tower.

History Trivia - Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe observes the Nova Cassiopeiae

November 11

308 At Carnuntum, Emperor emeritus Diocletian conferred with Galerius, Augustus of the East, and Maximianus, the recently returned former Augustus of the West, in an attempt to restore order to the Roman Empire.

 887 Asser began Instructing King Alfred. The Welsh monk who taught and counseled the King, became his friend and biographer, and began teaching him Latin on St. Martin's Day. Alfred went on to translate the work of Boethius into English.

1050  Henry IV was born.  He was King of Germany 1056-1106, who tried to depose Pope Gregory VII, and had to stand barefoot in the snow for three days before Gregory would pardon him, although Henry got his revenge later.

1215 The Fourth Lateran Council met and defined the doctrine of transubstantiation, the process by which bread and wine are transformed into the body and blood of Christ.

1417 Martin V Elected Pope. Elected unanimously during the Council of Constance, Martin was faced with the enormous task of restoring the Western church, the Papal States, and the papacy itself.

1499 Pretender to the British throne Perkin Warbeck was executed.

1572 Tycho's Nova. Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe observed the Nova Cassiopeiae and, although other observers claimed to have spotted it earlier, his precise measurements revealed it was a distant phenomenon and that changes could occur among stars. 

History Trivia - Catherine Howard confined in London Tower

November 9

694 Egica, a King of the Visigoths of Hispania, accused the Jews of aiding Muslims, and sentenced all Jews to slavery.

1282 Pope Martin IV excommunicated King Peter III of Aragon.

1492 Peace of Etaples (northern France) between Henry VII and Charles VIII. The treaty served to end an English invasion of France launched in order to stop France's support for the pretender Perkin Warbeck. By this treaty, France agreed to expel Warbeck and pay England an indemnity of £159,000. The treaty was ratified in December

1494 The de' Medici family were expelled from Florence.

1541 Queen Catherine Howard was confined in London Tower.