History Trivia

October 31

834 1st All Hallows Eve (Halloween) observed to honor the saints.

475 Romulus Augustulus was proclaimed Western Roman Emperor. His deposition by Odoacer in 476 traditionally marks the end of the Western Roman Empire, the fall of ancient Rome, and the beginning of the Middle Ages in Western Europe.

1517 Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther published his 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, sparking the Protestant Reformation.

History Trivia

October 20

 

480 BC The Greeks defeated the Persians in a naval battle at Salamis, an island in the Saronic Gulf near Athens. It marked the high-point of the second Persian invasion of Greece which had begun in 480 BC.

 

1097 First Crusaders arrived in Antioch. The first siege, by the crusaders against the Muslim city, lasted from October 21, 1097, to June 2, 1098.

 

1524 Thomas Linacre, physician and classical scholar, who founded the Royal College of Physicians in London died.

 

1632  Christopher Wren, East Knoyle, Wiltshire, England, astronomer/great architect (St. Paul's Cathedral), was born.

 

 

History Trivia

October 19

 

 

 

 

 202 BC, the Romans under Scipio Africanus defeated Hannibal's army of Carthaginians and Numidians in the Battle of Sama in the Second Punic War.

 

439 Gaiseric, King of the Vandals, seized the Roman city of Carthage, and made it his capital.

 

1216 King John of England died at Newark-on-Trent and was succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry.

 

1453 The French recapture of Bordeaux brought the Hundred Years' War to a close, with the English retaining only Calais on French soil.

 

1469 Ferdinand of Aragon married Isabella of Castile creating the alliance that unified Spain.

 

1512 Martin Luther became a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia).

 

1649 New Ross town, Co. Wexford, Ireland, surrendered to Oliver Cromwell.

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History Trivia

October 18,

 

768 Charlemagne and his brother Carloman were crowned co-rulers of the Franks, after the death of their father, Pepin the Short.

 

1009 The Church of the Holy Sepulcher, a Christian church in Jerusalem, was completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacked the Church's foundations down to bedrock.

 

1016 Canute of Denmark became the heir of Edmund Ironside, King of England, with victory at Ashingdon, and Edmund agreed to divide England between himself and Canute. At the end of November, however, Edmund died, and Canute became king of all England.

 

 

 

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1081 The Normans defeated the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Dyrrhachium.

 

1210 Pope Innocent III excommunicated German leader Otto IV.

 

1529 Henry VIII ordered Cardinal Wolsey to hand over the great seal.

 

1541 Princess Margaret Tudor died.

 

 

 

 

History Trivia

October 17

 

539 BC King Cyrus The Great of Persia marched into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost 70 years of exile and making the first Human Rights Declaration.

 

532 Pope Boniface II died.

 

733 Battle at Poitiers: Charles Martel (grandfather of Charlemagne) defeated Abd al-Rachmans Omajjaden, and halted a northward Islamic expansion into western Europe.

 

1091 A tornado struck the heart of London which destroyed the rebuilt Norman London Bridge.

 

1346 Battle of Neville's Cross: King David II of Scotland was captured by Edward III of England near Durham, and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years.

 

 

 

 

 

1404 Innocent VII became Pope.  During his pontificate, Innocent summoned a council in an attempt to heal the Western Schism but it never assembled.

 

 1529 Henry VIII of England stripped Thomas Wolsey of his office for failing to secure an annulment of his marriage.

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