History Trivia - Battle near Towton Field, death toll about 33,000

March 29

Artist - Graham Turner

 

 

1461 Battle near Towton Field, death toll about 33,000 in the deadliest battle of the War of the Roses, where Edward of York defeated Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England. 

1561 Santorio Santorio, the first physician to employ instruments of precision to medical practice, was born.

History Trivia - Second Battle of Saint Albans Lancastrians victorious

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.

History Trivia - Battle of Mortimer's Cross The Yorkists defeat Lancastrian forces

February 3

590 Gregory I, the Great, was elected Roman Catholic pope. He is known as the Father of Christian Worship because of his liturgical reforms. 

 1014 King Sweyn I (Forkbeard) of Denmark died. The Viking leader established a Danish empire, gained control of Norway, and conquered England. His name appears as Swegen in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

 1461: Battle of Mortimer's Cross The Yorkists, led by the future Edward IV, defeated Lancastrian forces in this significant battle of the Wars of the Roses.

History Trivia - Battle of Wakefield - Richard, Duke of York, is executed

December 30

39 Titus was born. He was Roman emperor from 79-81 and during his reign the Coliseum was completed.

1370 Pope Gregory XI elected pope. Gregory attempted to foster peace between England and France during the Hundred Years' War, defeated Florence in its war against the Papal States, and returned the papacy to Rome from Avignon.

1460 The Lancastrians routed the Yorkists at the Battle of Wakefield, and executed Richard, Duke of York.

History Trivia - Saint Nicholas Flood ravages the Northern Dutch coast

December 6

1196 the Northern Dutch coast was flooded; known as the Saint-Nicolas Flood, resulted in widespread damage and death.

1421 Henry VI was born. Henry VI was a child when he came to the throne on the death of his father Henry V. His weakness as a ruler and his occasional displays of mental instability exacerbated the Wars of the Roses (dynastic civil wars for the throne of England fought between supporters of two rival branches of the royal House of Plantagenet: the houses of Lancaster and York).