- 1492 – Spain and Christopher Columbus sign the Capitulations of Santa Fe for his voyage to Asia to acquire spices #
- 1397 – Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II #
- @thehistoryguy I thought he looked familiar…he did Cities of the Underworld on the History channel in reply to thehistoryguy #
- Happy Birthday 1278 – Michael IX Palaeologus, Byzantine co-emperor #
- R.I.P. 617 – St. Donnán of Eigg, Celtic Christian martyr, patron saint of Eigg #
- R.I.P. 1080 – King Harald III of Denmark #
- R.I.P. 1427 – John IV, Duke of Brabant #
- Shhh, Shhh, down in front! Game of Thrones is about to start! #
- 1025 – Bolesław Chrobry is crowned in Gniezno, becoming the first King of Poland #
- Happy Birthday 1480 – Lucrezia Borgia, Florentine ruler and daughter of Pope Alexander VI #
- R.I.P. 1161 – Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury #
- Not to many events today. So catch up on your Camelot episodes. http://darkag.es/CamRecap #
- Happy Birthday 1320 – King Peter I of Portugal #
- R.I.P. 1012 – Martyrdom of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, in Greenwich, London #
- Alphege would not allow a ransom to be paid for his freedom, as a result he was murdered by the viking mob #
- Anglo-Saxon Chronicles: pelted Alphege with bones and the heads of cattle; and one of them struck him on the head with the butt of an axe #
- Alphege was the first Archbishop of Canterbury to die a violent death…but not the last #
- Pope Gregory VII canonized Alphege, in 1078 #
- Alphege and Augustine of Canterbury are the only pre-conquest Anglo-Saxon archbishops kept on Canterbury's calendar of saints #
- R.I.P. 1054 – Pope Leo IX; #
- R.I.P. 1390 – King Robert II of Scotland #
- 1303 – The University of Rome La Sapienza is instituted by Pope Boniface VIII with papal Bull 'In supremae praeminentia dignitatis' #
- 1453 – The last naval battle in Byzantine history, as Byzantine ships fight through the huge Ottoman blockade fleet and into the Golden Horn #
- Happy Birthday 1494 – Johannes Agricola, German Protestant reformer and follower of Martin Luther #
- @julesfrusher Looks like a paper wasp. We have them all over the Western US. in reply to julesfrusher #
- @rexfactorpod what about red-hot pokers? in reply to rexfactorpod #
- R.I.P. 1176 – Richard de Clare "Strongbow", 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English military leader #
- Strongbow Cider is named after Richard de Clare and I drank more than my share of it while roaming through Ireland! #
- R.I.P. 1314 – Pope Clement V http://twitpic.com/4n1u3r #
- @rexfactorpod Hell hath no fury like an Isabella scorned! in reply to rexfactorpod #
- @etherley I suppose it depends on which side you are on…but in general it is just an indicator that someone died on any certain day #
- 1509 – Henry VIII ascends the throne of England on the death of his father, Henry VII #
- R.I.P. 866 – Bardas, Byzantine noble and minister #
- R.I.P. 1073 – Pope Alexander II #
- R.I.P. 1142 – Pierre Abélard, French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician #
- R.I.P. 1109 – Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury #
- “@architecturo: Shocking! An arsonist strikes Gaudí's Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, destroying the sacristy and badly damaging the crypt.” #
- Happy Birthday 1451 – Isabella I of Castile #
- R.I.P. 536 – Pope Agapetus I #
- This is great! RT @historyteacherz: New teasers on FB http://www.facebook.com/historyteacherz | #Columbus makes plea to Isabella of #Spain #
- R.I.P. 303 – Saint George, Roman soldier and Christian martyr; Patron Saint of England #
- 1014 – Battle of Clontarf: Brian Boru defeats the King of Leinster, Máel Mórda mac Murchada and his Viking invaders #
- R.I.P. 1014 – Brian Boru, High King of Ireland ; killed in the Battle of Clontarf #
- @JJRiquelmeM St. George is a popular saint. He is the patron saint in over 10 countries and more than 15 cities across Europe and Asia! #
- 1348 – The founding of the Order of the Garter by King Edward III is announced on St George's Day #
- 'HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE' ~Motto of the Order of the Garter #
- Happy Birthday 1464 – Joan of France, Duchess of Berry, queen of France #
- R.I.P. 1016 – Æthelred the Unready; King of England #
- 1016 – Edmund Ironside succeeds his father Æthelred the Unready as king of England #
- R.I.P. 1124 – King Alexander I 'the Fierce' (Alaxandair mac Maíl Coluim); King of Scotland #
- R.I.P. 1151 – Adeliza of Louvain; 2nd wife of King Henry I of England #
- Adeliza of Louvain married King Henry in 1121, she was 18, Henry was 53! #
- R.I.P. 1185 – Afonso II "the Fat", 3rd King of Portugal #
- R.I.P. 1170 – Isabelle of Hainaut, queen of France and mother of King Louis VIII 'the Lion' #
- 1564 – William Shakespeare, English writer and actor #
- Great article, Thanks! RT @Chadwickauthor: … wrote an article about Adeliza! http://bit.ly/gOxsLz #
