A Daily Dose of History (17 Jan 2025)

Today's historical events:

• Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people on the shores of the North Sea.
• Pope Gregory XI reaches Rome, after deciding to move the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon.
• Giovanni da Verrazzano sets sail westward from Madeira to find a sea route to the Pacific Ocean.
• During the French Wars of Religion, Henry IV of France declares war on Spain.
• Emperor Susenyos I of Ethiopia surprises an Oromo army at Ebenat; his army reportedly kills 12,000 Oromo at the cost of 400 of his men.
• England's Long Parliament passes the "Vote of No Addresses", breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War.
• Captain James Cook leads the first expedition to sail south of the Antarctic Circle.
• American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cowpens: Continental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at the battle in South Carolina.
• Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, is executed.
• Mexican War of Independence: In the Battle of Calderón Bridge, a heavily outnumbered Spanish force of 6,000 troops defeats nearly 100,000 Mexican revolutionaries.
• The United Kingdom signs the Sand River Convention with the South African Republic.
• A group of Modoc warriors defeats the United States Army in the First Battle of the Stronghold, part of the Modoc War.
• A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.

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