A Daily Dose of History (27 Nov 2024)

Today's historical events:

• Luoyang is declared capital of the Eastern Han dynasty by Emperor Guangwu of Han.
• Emperor Marcus Aurelius grants his son Commodus the rank of "Imperator" and makes him Supreme Commander of the Roman legions.
• Rufinus, praetorian prefect of the East, is murdered by Gothic mercenaries under Gainas.
• Byzantine Emperor Maurice is forced to watch as the usurper Phocas executes his five sons before Maurice is beheaded himself.
• Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
• The foundation stone to the Jerusalem Church in Berlin is laid.
• The Berners Street hoax is perpetrated by Theodore Hook in the City of Westminster, London.
• Adoption of Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland.
• Saint Catherine Labouré experiences a Marian apparition.
• James Pratt and John Smith are hanged in London; they are the last two to be executed for sodomy in England.
• In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.

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