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Friday, May 27
On This Date In 1521 The Jiajing (or Chia-ching) Emperor ruled as Emperor of China from 1521 to 1567, and was the 11th emperor of the Ming dynasty. Born Zhu Houcong (September 16, 1507 - January 23, 1567), he was the Zhengde Emperor's cousin. His era name means “Admirable tranquility”. On Th...
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Friday, May 20
On This Date In 1202 The 1202 Syria earthquake struck at about dawn with an epicenter in southwestern Syria. Up to 1,100,000 deaths have been associated with this earthquake, although other estimates are much smaller. It was felt over a very wide area, from Sicily to Iraq and Anatolia to upper Eg...
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Friday, May 13
On This Date In 1568 At the Battle of Langside, the forces of Mary Queen of Scots were defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, the regent of her son, King James VI of Scotland. On This Date In 1572 Upon the death of Pope Pius V (1566 - 1572), Cardinal Boncompag...
Friday! Happy Mother's Day! History, Remembrance, Quotes, and More!
Friday, May 06
On This Date In 1622 The Battle of Wimpfen, a battle in the Bohemian Revolt period of the Thirty Years' War near Wimpfen, was fought. The forces of the Holy Roman Empire and Catholic League under Marshal Tilly and Gonzalo de Córdoba defeated the Protestant forces of General Ernst von Mansfeld an...
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Friday, April 29
On This Date In 1376 the first Speaker of Britain's House of Commons, Sir Peter De La Mare, took office. On This Date In 1429 During the Hundred Years' War, the 17-year-old French peasant Joan of Arc lead a French force in relieving the city of Orleans, besieged by the English since the prev...
Friday! Good Friday! History, Remembrance, Quotes, and More!
Friday, April 22
On This Date In 238 The Year of the Six Emperors, the Senate outlawed Maximinus for his bloodthirsty proscriptions in Rome and nominated two of its members, Pupienu and Balbinus, to the throne. On This Date In 1500 Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral officially discovered Brazil and c...