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History Trivia
January 6
1017 Canute I crowned King of England. He was also King Canute II of Denmark and King Canute of Norway, and because of the empire he built in Britain and Scandinavia, he is sometimes known as Canute the Great.
1066 Harold Godwinson (last Anglo-Saxon King of England) was crowned, most likely in Westminster Abbey.
1367 King Richard II of England was born.
1540 King Henry VIII of England married Anne of Cleves. The marriage lasted six months after which time Henry obtained a divorce and married Catherine Howard.
1649 English Civil War: The Rump Parliament voted to put Charles I on trial.
1661 English Restoration: The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully tried to seize control of London.
1017 Canute I crowned King of England. He was also King Canute II of Denmark and King Canute of Norway, and because of the empire he built in Britain and Scandinavia, he is sometimes known as Canute the Great.
1066 Harold Godwinson (last Anglo-Saxon King of England) was crowned, most likely in Westminster Abbey.
1367 King Richard II of England was born.
1540 King Henry VIII of England married Anne of Cleves. The marriage lasted six months after which time Henry obtained a divorce and married Catherine Howard.
1649 English Civil War: The Rump Parliament voted to put Charles I on trial.
1661 English Restoration: The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully tried to seize control of London.
Saturday, January 5, 2013
History Trivia
January 5
1066, Edward the Confessor, King of England,
died. Edward was the son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy, was one
of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England and is usually regarded as the last
king of the House of Wessex, and ruled from 1042 to 1066.
1477 Charles the Bold
was killed at the Battle of Nancy at which time Burgundy became part of France.
1500 Duke Ludovico Sforza conquered Milan.
1554 A great fire occurred in
Eindhoven, Netherlands.
1531 Pope Clemens VII forbade English king Henry VIII
to re-marry.
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