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May 25, 735 The Venerable Bede died. 1085 Alfonso VI of Castile took Toledo, Spain back from the Moors. 1420 Henry the Navigator was appointed governor of the Order of Christ. 1521 The Diet of Worms ended when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issued the Edict of Worms, which declared Protestant Reformation leader Martin Luther an outlaw.
1659 Oliver Cromwell's son Richard resigned as Lord Protector of England.

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May 24, 1218 The Fifth Crusade left Acre for Egypt. 1276 Magnus Ladulås was crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral. 1337 The Hundred Years War between England and France began when France confiscated Gascony from Edward III. 1487 The ten-year-old Lambert Simnel was crowned in Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland with the name of Edward VI in a bid to threaten King Henry VII's reign.

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May 23, 1430 Siege of Compiègne: Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compiègne. 1498 Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy, on the orders of Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia).
1533 The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon was declared null and void.

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May 22,334 BC – The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeated Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus. 1176 The Hashshashin (Assassins) attempted to murder Saladin near Aleppo. 1377 Pope Gregory XI issued five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of English theologian John Wycliffe. 1455 Wars of the Roses: at the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeated and captured King Henry VI of England.

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May 21, On this day The Agonalia was held. It was held on January 9th, March 17th, May 21st, and December 11th. On each day a ram was sacrificed, probably as an offering to Janus. 685 English settlement was halted at the Firth of Forth when Picts defeated Northumbrians at Nachtansmere. 878 Syracuse, Italy was captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily. 879 Pope John VIII gave blessings to Duke Branimir and to Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of the Croatian state. 996 Sixteen-year-old Otto III was crowned Holy Roman Emperor. 1420 Charles VI ceded France to Henry V of England in the Treaty of Troyes, after Henry's victory at Agincourt.

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May 20, 325 Roman emperor Constantine called the Council of Nicaea, the first ecumenical Christian council. 526 An earthquake killed about 300,000 people in Syria and Antiochia. 685 The Battle of Dunnichen or Nechtansmere was fought between a Pictish army under King Bridei III and the invading Northumbrians under King Ecgfrith, who were decisively defeated. 1217 The Second Battle of Lincoln was fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince Louis of France by William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke.