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Pompeii's 62 AD Earthquake: A Grim Reminder (+ 8 more historical events on this day!)

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A Daily Dose of History (05 Feb 2025)

Today's historical events:

  • Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
  • An Lushan, leader of a revolt against the Tang Dynasty, declares himself emperor and establishes the state of Yan.
  • Idris I reaches Volubilis and founds the Idrisid dynasty, marking the secession of Morocco from the Abbasid caliphate and founding the first Moroccan state.
  • Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
  • A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.
  • South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
  • Spanish defeat British forces and capture Menorca.
  • In Calabria, a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.
  • HMS Blenheim and HMS Java disappear off the coast of Rodrigues.

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