A Daily Dose of History (25 Mar 2025)

Today's historical events:

• Italian city Venice is founded with the dedication of the first church, that of San Giacomo di Rialto on the islet of Rialto.
• Pope Constantine becomes the 88th pope. He would be the last pope to visit Constantinople until 1967.
• Theodosius III resigns the throne to the Byzantine Empire to enter the clergy.
• Romanos Lekapenos seizes the Boukoleon Palace in Constantinople and becomes regent of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII.
• Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah assassinates the eunuch chief minister Barjawan and assumes control of the government.
• Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scots (Scotland).
• The Council of Pisa convenes, in an attempt to heal the Western Schism.
• Hernando Cortes, entering province of Tabasco, defeats Tabascan Indians.
• Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.
• Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
• A French fleet anchors nears Fife Ness as part of the planned French invasion of Britain.

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