History Trivia - Edith of Wessex dies

December 19

1075 - Edith of Wessex, wife of Edward the Confessor of England, died. 

 1187 Clement III became Pope. The fall of Jerusalem to Saladin in the Third Crusade occurred during his pontificate. 

1551 The Dutch west coast was hit by a hurricane.

History Trivia - England's Henry VII invades France

October 2

1187  Sultan Saladin, captured Jerusalem which brought about the Third Crusade. 

1263 The Battle of Largs was fought between Norwegians and Scots. It was the most important military engagement of the Scottish-Norwegian War. The Norwegian forces were led by King Håkon Håkonsson and the Scottish forces by King Alexander III. The result was inconclusive, but in the long term favored the Scots. 

1492 King Henry VII of England invaded France. This act of war was a bluff by Henry, as he had no intention of fighting over the winter. However, as France became more concerned with the Italian Wars, the French were happy to agree to the Treaty of Etaples.

History Trivia - Saladin victory at Horns of Hattin

July 3

 

 987 Hugh Capet was crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France until the French Revolution in 1792.

 

1187 Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, destroyed Jerusalem's crusader army at the Horns of Hattin, Palestine.

 

1528 Capuchin Order received papal approval in a bull by Pope Clement VII.

History Trivia - Publius Septimius Geta, co-emperor of Rome, murdered

December 19

211 Publius Septimius Geta, co-emperor of Rome, was murdered.

1075  Edith of Wessex, wife of Edward the Confessor of England, died.

1154 Henry II of England was crowned at Westminster Abbey.

1187 Clement III became Pope. The fall of Jerusalem to Saladin in the Third Crusade occurred during his pontificate.

1551 The Dutch west coast was hit by a hurricane.

History Trivia - Saladin captures Jerusalem

October 2

 1187  Sultan Saladin, captured Jerusalem which brought about the Third Crusade.

1263 The Battle of Largs was fought between Norwegians and Scots. It was the most important military engagement of the Scottish-Norwegian War. The Norwegian forces were led by King Håkon Håkonsson and the Scottish forces by King Alexander III. The result was inconclusive, but in the long term favored the Scots.

1264 Pope Urban IV died. His brief pontificate was largely occupied with his attempts to restore papal power in Italy.

History Trivia - England unified by Athelstan of England

July 12

100 BC Gaius Julius Caesar was born.

927 England was unified by Athelstan of England after a long process of annexation.

1191 Third Crusade: Saladin's garrison surrendered, ending the two-year siege of Acre.

1450 a rebellion against war taxes ended when its leader, Jack Cade, was driven out of London and later killed.

1472 Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester and later King of England, married Anne Neville, daughter of the Earl of Warwick, in Westminster Abbey.

1543 King Henry VIII of England married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr, at Hampton Court Palace.

History Trivia - Battle of Adrianople: Roman Emperor Constantine I defeats co-emperor Licinius

July 3

 324 Battle of Adrianople: Roman Emperor Constantine I defeated co-emperor Licinius, who fled to Byzantium.

987 Hugh Capet was crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France until the French Revolution in 1792.

1187 Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, destroyed Jerusalem's crusader army at the Horns of Hattin, Palestine.

1528 Capuchin Order received papal approval in a bull by Pope Clement VII.

History Trivia - Saladin dies

March 4

51 Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, was given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth).

 1152 Frederick Barbarossa was elected Holy Roman Emperor.

1193 Saladin died.

1215 King John of England made an oath to Pope Innocent III as a crusader to gain his support. 1

461 Battle at Towton: Yorkists defeated the Lancastrians and Edward IV was recognized as king of England.

1492 King James IV of Scotland concluded an alliance with France against England.

History Trivia - The White Ship sinks in the English Channel, drowning the heir to the British Throne

November 25

955 King Eadred brought Northumbria permanently under English rule.

1034 Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of Scots died. Donnchad, the son of his daughter Bethóc and Crínán of Dunkeld, inherited the throne. 

1120 The White Ship sank in the English Channel, drowning William Adelin, son of Henry I of England. 

1177 Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Chatillon defeated Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard.

1185 Urban III became Pope. Urban inherited a tense diplomatic relationship with the Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick Barbarossa, from his predecessor Lucius III.

1276 The Habsburg dynasty was founded as Rudolf of Habsburg seized Vienna and made it his capital.

1277 Nicholas III was elected Pope. Nicholas began an administrative reform of the Papal States, inducing Rudolf I to acknowledge that the Italian province of the Romagna belonged to the church.

1343 a tsunami, caused by an earthquake in the Tyrrhenian Sea, devastated Naples (Italy) and the Maritime Republic of Amalfi.

1491 The siege of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, began.

History Trivia - The Battle of Fulford: King Harald III of Norway defeats Edwin of Mercia and Morcar of Northumbria.

September 20

451 The Battle of Châlons took place in North Eastern France. Flavius Aetius's victory over Attila the Hun in a day of combat is considered to be the largest battle in the ancient world.

1066 The Battle of Fulford: King Harald III of Norway (Harald Hardrada) and Tostig Gowinson, his English allay, defeated Edwin of Mercia and Morcar of Northumbria.

1187 Saladin began the Siege of Jerusalem. This act of aggression provoked the Third Crusade.

1378 Cardinal Robert of Geneva, called by some the Butcher of Cesena, was elected as Avignon Pope Clement VII, beginning the Papal schism.

1633 Galileo Galilei was tried before the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for teaching that the Earth orbits the Sun and was found "vehemently suspect of heresy", forced to recant, and spent the rest of his life under house arrest.