It happened today – this day in history – April 23
871: Death of Ethelred I, King of Wessex. 1014: King Brian Boru of Ireland defeats Viking forces at Battle of
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Read more1471: In the Wars of the Roses King Edward IV of England seizes London from Henry VI. 1814: Napoleon abdicates
Read more1461: Wars of the Roses: Second Battle of St Albans – Lancastrian army defeats Yorkists and recaptures King Henry VI
Read more1431: Henry VI of England is crowned king of France. 1485: Birth of Catherine of Aragon in Madrid. 1497: Portuguese
Read more343: Greek Bishop St Nicholas, model for the modern day Father Christmas, dies aged 73. 1240: Mongols under Batu Khan
Read more1470: Henry VI returns to the English throne after the Earl of Warwick defeats Yorkists in battle during the War
Read more12AD: Birth of Caligula, third emperor of Rome. 1422: Henry VI becomes King of England at the age of nine
Read more1482: Death of Margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry VI aged 52. 1530: Birth of Ivan the Terrible, first tsar
Read more48BC: Julius Ceasar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey near the city of Dyrrachium (in what is now Albania).
Read more1381: Peasant uprising begins in Essex. 1431: Joan of Arc, aged 19, is burned at the stake in Rouen. 1445:
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