A Daily Dose of History (08 Nov 2024)

Today's historical events:

• Battle of Andrassos: Byzantines under Leo Phokas the Younger score a crushing victory over the Hamdanid Emir of Aleppo, Sayf al-Dawla.
• Trần Thánh Tông, the second emperor of the Trần dynasty, decides to pass the throne to his crown prince Trần Khâm and take up the post of Retired Emperor.
• The Republic of Venice enacts a law confining most of Venice's glassmaking industry to the "island of Murano".
• Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration.
• Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 people mostly noblemen.
• Eighty Years' War: Pacification of Ghent: The States General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose Spanish occupation.
• The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford is opened to the public.
• Robert Catesby, ringleader of the Gunpowder Plotters, is killed.
• Japanese daimyō Dom Justo Takayama is exiled to the Philippines by shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu for being Christian.
• The Battle of White Mountain takes place near Prague, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours.
• The Shunzhi Emperor, the third emperor of the Qing dynasty, is enthroned in Beijing after the collapse of the Ming dynasty as the first Qing emperor to rule over China.
• Charles Edward Stuart invades England with an army of approximately 5,000 that would later participate in the Battle of Culloden.

Information from this episode are sourced from API Ninjas

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