A Daily Dose of History (18 Aug 2024)

Today's historical events:

• Battle of Marj Rahit: Umayyad partisans defeat the supporters of Ibn al-Zubayr and cement Umayyad control of Syria.
• The Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle is fought to a draw between the French army and the Flemish militias.
• The Siege of Málaga ends with the taking of the city by Castilian and Aragonese forces.
• The first grammar of the Spanish language (Gramática de la lengua castellana) is presented to Queen Isabella I.
• Marriage in Paris, France, of the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre to Margaret of Valois, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics.
• John White, the governor of the Roanoke Colony, returns from a supply trip to England and finds his settlement deserted.
• The trial of the Pendle witches, one of England's most famous witch trials, begins at Lancaster Assizes.
• Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France.
• The city of Shamakhi in Safavid Shirvan is sacked.
• A huge fireball meteor is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast.
• The Senate of Finland is established in the Grand Duchy of Finland after the official adoption of the Statute of the Government Council by Tsar Alexander I of Russia.
• Major Gordon Laing becomes the first non-Muslim to enter Timbuktu.
• The Wilkes Expedition, which would explore the Puget Sound and Antarctica, weighs anchor at Hampton Roads.
• Camila O'Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez are executed on the orders of Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas.
• American Civil War: Battle of Globe Tavern: Union forces try to cut a vital Confederate supply-line into Petersburg, Virginia, by attacking the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad.

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