A Daily Dose of History (19 Sep 2023)

Today's historical events:

• Nerva, suspected of complicity of the death of Domitian, is declared emperor by Senate. The Senate then annuls laws passed by Domitian and orders his statues to be destroyed.
• Siege of Damascus: The Rashidun Arabs under Khalid ibn al-Walid capture Damascus from the Byzantine Empire.
• Battle of Poitiers: An English army under the command of Edward, the Black Prince defeats a French army and captures King John II.
• End of the Siege of Marienburg: The State of the Teutonic Order repulses the joint Polish—Lithuanian forces.
• Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon's Rebellion.
• American Revolutionary War: British forces win a tactically expensive victory over the Continental Army in the First Battle of Saratoga.
• The Continental Congress passes the first United States federal budget.
• George Washington's Farewell Address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.
• Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experience a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette.
• Annibale de Gasparis discovers the asteroid Massalia from the north dome of the Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte.
• American Civil War: Union troops under William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by Sterling Price.

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