Events 293 – Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as Caesar to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy. 878 – Syracuse, Sicily, is captured by the Muslim Aghlabids after a nine-month siege. 879 – Pope John VIII gives blessings to Branimir of Croatia and to the Croatian people, considered… Read More

Events 685 – The Battle of Dun Nechtain is fought between a Pictish army under King Bridei III and the invading Northumbrians under King Ecgfrith, who are decisively defeated. 794 – While visiting the royal Mercian court at Sutton Walls with a view to marrying princess Ælfthryth, King Æthelberht II of East Anglia is taken… Read More

Events 639 – Ashina Jiesheshuai and his tribesmen assaulted Emperor Taizong at Jiucheng Palace. 1445 – John II of Castile defeats the Infantes of Aragon at the First Battle of Olmedo. 1535 – French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona’s two… Read More

Events 1096 – First Crusade: Around 800 Jews are massacred in Worms, Germany. 1268 – The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Siege of Antioch. 1291 – Fall of Acre, the end of Crusader presence in the Holy Land. 1302 – Bruges Matins, the nocturnal massacre of… Read More

Events 1395 – Battle of Rovine: The Wallachians defeat an invading Ottoman army. 1527 – Pánfilo de Narváez departs Spain to explore Florida with 600 men – by 1536 only 4 survive. 1648 – Emperor Ferdinand III defeats Maximilian I of Bavaria in the Battle of Zusmarshausen. 1756 – Seven Years’ War formally begins when… Read More

Events 1204 – Having been elected on 09 May, Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire. 1527 – The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes itself as a republic. 1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England. 1739 – The… Read More

Events 221 – Liu Bei, Chinese warlord, proclaims himself emperor of Shu Han, the successor of the Han dynasty. 392 – Emperor Valentinian II is assassinated while advancing into Gaul against the Frankish usurper Arbogast. He is found hanging in his residence at Vienne. 1525 – Insurgent peasants led by Anabaptist pastor Thomas Müntzer were… Read More