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.
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.
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.