Pages

▼
Showing posts with label Vandals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vandals. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 23, 2015

History Trivia - St. Ivo of Chartres dies

›
December 23 484 Huneric died and was succeeded by his nephew Gunthamund, who became king of the Vandals. During his reign the Catholi...
Monday, October 19, 2015

History Trivia - Battle of Sama - Scipio defeats Hannibal's army

›
October 19  202 BC, the Romans under Scipio Africanus defeated Hannibal's army of Carthaginians and Numidians in the Battle of Sa...
Tuesday, October 13, 2015

History Trivia - Emperor Claudius poisoned

›
October 13  54 Emperor Claudius died from poison given him by his physician Xenophon and his empress Agrippina, and Nero became emper...
Wednesday, December 31, 2014

History Trivia - Ethelred of Wessex beats the Danish invasion army

›
December 31 192 The Roman emperor Commodus, whose brutal reign ended 90 years of peaceful prosperity, was assassinated. 406 Van dals...
Tuesday, December 23, 2014

History Trivia - Gunthamund becomes king of the Vandals

›
December 23 484 Huneric died and was succeeded by his nephew Gunthamund, who became king of the Vandals. During his reign the Catholics ...
Sunday, October 19, 2014

History Trivia - Romans under Scipio Africanus defeats Hannibal's army in the Battle of Sama

›
October 19 202 BC, the Romans under Scipio Africanus defeated Hannibal's army of Carthaginians and Numidians in the Battle of Sama ...
Monday, October 13, 2014

History Trivia - Emperor Claudius dies from poison

›
October 13 54 Emperor Claudius died from poison given him by his physician Xenophon and his empress Agrippina, and Nero became emperor o...
Saturday, September 13, 2014

History Trivia - Construction of Hadrian's Wall begins

›
Sept 13  585 BC Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, king of Rome, celebrated a triumph for his victories over the Sabines, and the surrender of C...
Tuesday, December 31, 2013

History Trivia - Cesare Borgia occupies Urbino

›
December 31 192 The Roman emperor Commodus, whose brutal reign ended 90 years of peaceful prosperity, was assassinated. 406 Vandal...
Monday, December 23, 2013

History Trivia - Gunthamund becomes king of the Vandals.

›
December 23  484 Huneric died and was succeeded by his nephew Gunthamund, who became king of the Vandals. During his reign the Catholics...
Sunday, December 15, 2013

History Trivia - Byzantine general Belisarius defeated the Vandals

›
December 15 37 Nero was born. He was the Roman emperor who is alleged to have fiddled while Rome burned.  533 Byzantine general Beli...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

History Trivia - Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII, dies

›
October 24 51 Roman Emperor Domitian was born. 69 Second Battle of Bedriacum, forces under Antonius Primus, the commander of the Dan...