A Daily Dose of History (22 May 2024)

Today's historical events:

• Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu.
• Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
• A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt.
• The Hashshashin (Assassins) attempt to assassinate Saladin near Aleppo.
• King John of England and King Philip II of France sign the Treaty of Le Goulet.
• Henry Raspe is elected anti-king of the Kingdom of Germany in opposition to Conrad IV.
• Serbian King Stefan Uroš I and the Republic of Venice sign a peace treaty.
• Brussels massacre: Between six and twenty Jews are murdered and the rest of the Jewish community is banished from Brussels, Belgium, for allegedly desecrating consecrated Host.
• Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of English theologian John Wycliffe.
• Start of the Wars of the Roses: At the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.
• The massacre at the festival of Tóxcatl takes place during the Fall of Tenochtitlan, resulting in turning the Aztecs against the Spanish.
• Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II and Danish King Christian IV sign the Treaty of Lübeck ending Danish intervention in the Thirty Years' War.
• Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.
• Trevi Fountain is officially completed and inaugurated in Rome.

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