It happened today – this day in history – June 26
1267: The Inquisition forms in Rome under Pope Clement IV. 1284: According to the Lüneburg manuscript, a piper leads 130
Read more1267: The Inquisition forms in Rome under Pope Clement IV. 1284: According to the Lüneburg manuscript, a piper leads 130
Read more597BC: Babylonians capture Jerusalem. 1190: Jews living in York are besieged in Clifford’s Tower and massacred or commit suicide rather
Read more1193: Death of Saladin, first Sultan of Egypt and Syria and the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. 1522: Anne Boleyn
Read more1173: Pope Alexander III canonises Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury. 1431: Joan of Arc’s first day of interrogation during her
Read more192: Roman emperor Commodus survives a poisoning attempt by his mistress only to be strangled in the bath. 1491: French
Read more1291: Eleanor of Castile, wife of Edward I, dies in Northants. 1499: Edward Plantagenet, 17th Count of Warwick and Plantagenet
Read more1272: Edward I is proclaimed King of England after the death of his father, Henry III. He would take two
Read more1009: The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks
Read more54AD: Nero succeeds Claudius as Roman Emperor 1399: Henry of Bolingbroke is crowned King Henry IV of England at Westminster
Read more1075: Dmitar Zvonimir is crowned king of Croatia. 1690: Ottoman troops capture Belgrade. 1769: Captain James Cook lands in Poverty
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