It happened today – this day in history – February 17
1461: Wars of the Roses: Second Battle of St Albans – Lancastrian army defeats Yorkists and recaptures King Henry VI
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Read more343: Greek Bishop St Nicholas, model for the modern day Father Christmas, dies aged 73. 1240: Mongols under Batu Khan
Read more54AD: Nero succeeds Claudius as Roman Emperor 1399: Henry of Bolingbroke is crowned King Henry IV of England at Westminster
Read more1318: Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured by the Scottish from the English. 1748: The ruins of Pompeii are rediscovered by Spaniard Rocque
Read more42BC: One of Julius Caesar’s assassins, Brutus commits suicide. 1091: A tornado hits London, destroying the wooden London Bridge. 1642:
Read more54AD: Nero succeeds Claudius as Roman Emperor 1399: Henry of Bolingbroke is crowned King Henry IV of England at Westminster
Read more306: Constantine I is proclaimed Roman Emperor by his troops. 1261: Constantinople recaptured by Nicaean forces under Alexios Strategopoulos for
Read more1401: Turko-Mongol ruler Tamerlane destroys Baghdad, killing 20,000. 1540: Henry VIII annuls his six month marriage to his fourth wife
Read more1314: Scotland regains independence from England at the Battle of Bannockburn. 1340: The English fleet destroys the French at the
Read more930: The Icelandic Parliament, the Alþingi, the world’s oldest parliament, is established. 1547: Champion of the Protestant Reformation, Philip I,
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