Showing posts with label Teutonic knights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Teutonic knights. Show all posts

Sunday, April 5, 2015

History Trivia - St. Patrick returns to Ireland

April 5

 456 St. Patrick returned to Ireland as a missionary bishop.

1242 Russian troops repelled an invasion by Teutonic knights.

1603 New English king James I left Edinburgh for London.

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

History Trivia - Edward Gibbon publishes the The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

February 17

 1370 The Battle of Rudau - Teutonic knights defeated the Lithuanians in their attempt to Christianize the country.

1461 Second Battle of Saint Albans where the Lancastrians were victorious, and were able to free King Henry VI who had been imprisoned by the Earl of Warwick.

1779 British historian Edward Gibbon published the The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Saturday, April 5, 2014

History Trivia - St. Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary bishop

April 5

456 St. Patrick returned to Ireland as a missionary bishop.

 1242 Russian troops repelled an invasion by Teutonic knights.



1291 a Muslim army attacked Acre in the tiny Latin kingdom of Jerusalem, beginning the end of the history of the Crusader states in the East.

1603 New English king James I left Edinburgh for London.
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