A Daily Dose of History (05 Aug 2023)

Today's historical events:

• Roman armies enter Betar, slaughtering thousands and ending the Bar Kokhba revolt.
• Battle of Maserfield: Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Northumbria.
• The Battle of Alhandic is fought between Ramiro II of León and Abd-ar-Rahman III at Zamora in the context of the Spanish Reconquista. The battle resulted in a victory for the Emirate of Córdoba.
• Byzantine-Norman wars: Italo-Normans begin a nearly-three-year siege of Bari.
• Henry I is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey.
• The Battle of Otterburn, a border skirmish between the Scottish and the English in Northern England, is fought near Otterburn.
• The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Crimean Khanate in the Battle of Kletsk.
• Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes the first English colony in North America, at what is now St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
• The Gowrie Conspiracy against King James VI of Scotland (later to become King James I of England) takes place.
• The Mayflower departs from Southampton, England, carrying would-be settlers, on its first attempt to reach North America; it is forced to dock in Dartmouth when its companion ship, the Speedwell, springs a leak.
• Beaver Wars: Fifteen hundred Iroquois attack Lachine in New France.

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