A Daily Dose of History (06 Dec 2024)

Today's historical events:

• Pope Leo VIII is appointed to the office of Protonotary and begins his papacy as antipope of Rome.
• Béla I is crowned king of Hungary.
• Mongol invasion of Rus': Kyiv under Daniel of Galicia and Voivode Dmytro falls to the Mongols under Batu Khan.
• After exploring island of Cuba for gold, surmising it for Japan, Columbus lands on island similar to Castile, naming it Hispaniola.
• The city of Quito in Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebastián de Belalcázar.
• Colonel Thomas Pride of the New Model Army purges the Long Parliament of MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England, in order for the King's trial to go ahead; came to be known as "Pride's Purge".
• Battle of Chamkaur: During the Mughal-Sikh Wars, an outnumbered Sikh Khalsa defeats a Mughal army.
• Charles Edward Stuart's army begins retreat during the second Jacobite Rising.
• The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia.
• Five French warships attempting to escape the Royal Naval blockade of Saint-Domingue are all seized by British warships, signifying the end of the Haitian Revolution.
• Georgia ratifies the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

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