A Daily Dose of History (19 Dec 2023)

Today's historical events:

• Henry II of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey.
• Pope Clement III is elected.
• Anne, Duchess of Brittany, is married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy.
• The Battle of Dreux takes place during the French Wars of Religion.
• The ships Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery depart England carrying settlers who founded, at Jamestown, Virginia, the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States.
• Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled "The American Crisis".
• French Revolutionary Wars: Two British frigates under Commodore Horatio Nelson and two Spanish frigates under Commodore Don Jacobo Stuart engage in battle off the coast of Murcia.
• French parliament votes amnesty for all involved in scandalous army treason trial known as Dreyfus affair.
• Two hundred thirty-nine coal miners die in the Darr Mine Disaster in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.

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