November 18
1307 William Tell shot an apple
off of his son's head. The historical existence of Tell is disputed. According to
popular legend, he was a peasant from Bürglen in the canton of Uri in the 13th
and early 14th centuries who defied Austrian authority, was forced to shoot an
apple from his son’s head, was arrested for threatening the governor’s life,
saved the same governor’s life en route to prison, escaped, and ultimately
killed the governor in an ambush. These events supposedly helped spur the
people to rise up against Austrian rule.
1421 A seawall at the Zuiderzee dike in the Netherlands broke,
flooding 72 villages and killing about 10,000 people.
1477 William Caxton
produced Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres, the first book printed on a
printing press in England.
November
18
326 Old St. Peter's Basilica in Rome was consecrated.
942: Saint Odo of
Cluny died. The second abbot of the great monastery at Cluny, Odo achieved
exemption from all but papal authority for his monastic community and reformed
monasteries in Gaul and Italy.
1307 William Tell
shot an apple off of his son's head. The historical existence of Tell is disputed. According to popular legend, he was a peasant from Bürglen in the canton of Uri in the 13th and early 14th centuries who defied Austrian authority, was forced to shoot an apple from his son’s head, was arrested for threatening the governor’s life, saved the same governor’s life en route to prison, escaped, and ultimately killed the governor in an ambush. These events supposedly helped spur the people to rise up against Austrian rule.
1421 A seawall at the Zuiderzee dike in
the Netherlands broke, flooding 72 villages and killing about 10,000 people.
1477 William Caxton produced Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres, the first
book printed on a printing press in England.
November
18
326 Old St. Peter's Basilica in Rome was consecrated.
942: Saint Odo of
Cluny died. The second abbot of the great monastery at Cluny, Odo achieved
exemption from all but papal authority for his monastic community and reformed
monasteries in Gaul and Italy.
1105 Maginulf elected the Antipope Sylvester the
IV.
1210 Pope Innocent III excommunicated Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV.
1302 Pope
Boniface VIII issued the Papal bull Unam sanctam (One Faith).
1307 William Tell
shot an apple off of his son's head.
1421 A seawall at the Zuiderzee dike in
the Netherlands broke, flooding 72 villages and killing about 10,000 people.
1477 William Caxton produced Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres, the first
book printed on a printing press in England.
1494 French King Charles VIII
occupied Florence, Italy.
1626 St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome was officially
dedicated on the same day the Old Basilica was consecrated 1300 years earlier.
