A Daily Dose of History (27 Oct 2023)

Today's historical events:

• Constantine is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.
• Æthelstan, the first king of all England, dies and is succeeded by his half-brother, Edmund I.
• French troops lay siege to Pavia.
• Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.
• Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War.
• Philadelphia is founded in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
• King George III expands on his Proclamation of Rebellion in the Thirteen Colonies in his speech from the throne at the opening of Parliament.
• The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.
• The French Army enters Berlin, following the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt.
• United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
• Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be killed.

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