A Daily Dose of History (12 Apr 2025)

Today's historical events:

• Shapur I becomes co-emperor of the Sasanian Empire with his father Ardashir I.
• Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
• King Edwin of Northumbria is converted to Christianity by Paulinus, bishop of York.
• Duke Oldřich of Bohemia deposes and blinds his brother Jaromír, who flees to Poland.
• The Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade breach the walls of Constantinople and enter the city, which they completely occupy the following day.
• The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of English and Scottish ships.
• American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain.
• The Froberg mutiny ends when the remaining mutineers blow up the magazine of Fort Ricasoli.
• Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.
• American Civil War: Battle of Fort Sumter. The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
• American Civil War: The Andrews Raid (the Great Locomotive Chase) occurs, starting from Big Shanty, Georgia (now Kennesaw).
• American Civil War: The Battle of Fort Pillow: Confederate forces kill most of the African American soldiers that surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.
• American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.

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