It happened today – this day in history – October 10
1375: The Westfriese sea wall breaks flooding northern Netherlands. 1549: The Duke of Somerset is dismissed as Lord Protector and
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It happened today – this day in history – October 4
1539: Henry VIII marries Anne of Cleves. 1669: Death of Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn aged 66. 1777: General George
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It happened today – this day in history – September 2
44BC: Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion. 1192: Sultan Saladin and Richard I of
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It happened today – this day in history – August 29
1261: Jacques Pantaleon is elected as Pope Urban IV. 1350: The English fleet under Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet
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It happened today – this day in history – August 19
14AD: Death of first Roman Emperor Augustus aged 75. 1274: Edward I is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey
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It happened today – this day in history – December 29
1170: Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket is assassinated before the high alter of Canterbury Cathedral by four knights. 1778: British
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It happened today – this day in history – November 13
1002: Ethlered The Unready of England launches a massacre of Danish settlers. 1312: Birth of Edward III. 1553: Lady Jane
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It happened today – on this day in history – November 12
1793: Jean Sylvain Bailly, first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined. 1847: Sir James Young Simpson is the first to use
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It happened today – this day in history – October 24
1537: Jane Seymore, third wife of Henry VIII dies of post childbirth complications. 1648: The Treaty of Westphalia ends The
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It happened today – this day in history – October 12
1216: King John loses the crown jewels in The Wash as the flood tide swamps his wagons. 1492: Christopher Columbus
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