A Daily Dose of History (23 May 2023)

Today's historical events:

• Joan of Arc is captured at the Siege of Compiègne by troops from the Burgundian faction.
• Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy.
• The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.
• Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Arenberg, and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, opening the Eighty Years' War.
• Official ratification of the Second Virginia Charter takes place.
• The Second Defenestration of Prague precipitates the Thirty Years' War.
• John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, defeats a French army under Marshal François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy at the Battle of Ramillies.
• South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution as the eighth American state.
• Battle of Famars during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
• Accordion patent granted to Cyrill Demian in Vienna, Austrian Empire.

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