May 18 in History
1096 In Worms 800 Jews are massacred by Crusaders.
1152 The future Henry II marries Eleanor of Aquitaine.
1291 With the fall of Acre Crusader presence in the Holy Land ends.
1631 John Winthrop becomes first Governor of Massachusetts.
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1642 Montreal is founded.
1803 The United Kingdom declares war on France.
1804 Napoleon Bonaparte is declared Emperor of the French.
1848 The first German National Assembly is opened.
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1860 Abraham Lincoln becomes the Republican candidate for the presidency.
1896 The Supreme Court releases the rasist Plessy vs. Ferguson decision.
1899 The first conference of the Hague Convention begins.
1912 The first Indian film is released.
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1944 The Allies win the Battle of Monte Cassino
1965 Israeli spy Eli Cohen is hanged in Syria.
1969 Apollo 10 is launched.
1974 India detonates a nuclear weapon.
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1980 Mount St Helens erupts.
2012 Facebook holds its initial public offering.
2018 A school shooting at Santa Fe kills ten people.
2019 Joe Biden announces his presidential campaign.
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Did Henry know about Eleanor's bare-breasted adventuring on Crusade with Louis, I wonder, before he married her?
And DID she sleep with his father?
(Everything I know about these two, I learned from "The Lion in Winter "- so it's probably as accurate as Blanchett's "Elizabeth."🥴)
Talk about wild history:
"Once again a single woman with possessions, Eleanor was at risk of abduction and forced marriage to acquire her domains. From Beaugency to Poitiers she narrowly evaded two attempts to kidnap her. This rapuit et abduxit was a common practice regarding heiresses."
And look what ended up happening to her, anyway.
(I lied; I have read a lot about her - but that's BECAUSE of the movie. I became obsessed. Thank Katharine Hepburn for that...)
A healthy obsession.
I am an avowed Anglophile; which MIGHT be considered problematic for someone whose DNA is 1/3 Irish & 1/3 Scots...
But the other 1/3 is English, so - what can I say. IT'S DOMINANT. No great shock, is it?😎
(Also went to British schools till age 11, so I come by my love of English history honestly.)
I am an avowed Anglophile, too, and I am 100 per cent German! Well, this isn't true. I made an Ancestry DNA test once. So I am 63% German speaking regions of Europe, 23% England and North West Europe, 7% Norway, 4% Sweden and Denmark, 2%France and 1% Jewish. I love being so European.
1291 After 100 yrs of Crusader control,the last Crusader stronghold of Acre is reconquered and destroyed by the Mamluks under Sultan al-Ashraf Khalil
1804 Napoléon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of France by the French Senate
1974 India becomes the 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb #OnThisDay
May 14 in History
1607 The first American British settlement is founded.
1608 The Protestand Union is founded.
1610 Henry IV of France is assassinated.
1643 Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes French king.
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May 18th 1152 – The future Henry II of England marries Eleanor of Aquitaine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t33... (part 2) #onthisday #history #mannymandoeshistory #england #monarchy #royalfamily #normans #henryii #aquitaine #eleanorofaquitaine #thelioninwinter #plantagenet
1570 The first modern atlas is issued.
1609 Shakespeare's Sonnets are published.
1631 Magdeburg is captured by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred.
1802 Napoleon reinstates slavery in the French colonies.
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History on 27 May
1096 As part of the People's Crusade at least 600 Jews are killed in Mainz.
1199 John is crowned King of England.
1525 The radical German reformer Thomas Müntzer is executed.
1564 The leading French Protestant reformer John Calvin dies.
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#OTD 2 December 1804 At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French.
#OnThisDay in 2019 Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom surpassed Eleanor of Aquitaine, ruler of the Aquitaine, as longest reigning female ruler.
The longest reigning female ruler was the formidable Eleanor of Aquitaine who ruled over the Duchy of Aquitaine in her own right. She lived to be 82 years old, which in medieval times was ancient. E...
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👉 #OnthisDay On Sunday 2 December 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned Emperor of France at the Notre Dame in Paris. More about #Napoleon and this event @ allaboutroyalfamilies.blogspot.com/p/travels-fr...
#France #history #travel #Napoleon #Bonaparte
Zionist claims to the holy land are about as legitimate as the medieval kingdom of Jerusalem founded by French crusaders
2nd December 1804 – At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French.
FULL VIDEO ON NAPOLEONIC WARS HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euFJPYxsng0&t=2s
#onthisday #history #mannymandoeshistory #france #napoleon #bonaparte #emperor #paris #notredame
May 12 in History
907 The Chinese Tang Dynasty ends.
1364 Jagiellonian University, the oldest university in Poland, is founded.
1497 Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Savonarola.
1551 National University of San Marcos, the oldest university of the Americas, is founded.
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History on 28 May
585BC A solar ecclipse occurs, as predicted by Thales.
1242 A group of Cathars murder the inquisitor William Arnaud in Avignonet.
1291 The Mamluk end Crusader rule in the Holy Land by taking Acre.
1588 The Spanish Armada begins to set sail from Lisbon to invade England.
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Napoleon became the emperor of France in 1804 and then the holy Roman empire stoped being a real thing by 1806.
Coincidence?
#OTDIH
In 1851, Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, elected President of the Second French Republic in the aftermath of the 1848 French Revolution, overthrew the very government he led. The same day in 1852, he was crowned Emperor of the French as Napoleon III.
May 22 in History
337 Roman Emperor Constantine is baptized on his deathbed.
1370 In Brussels between six and twenty Jews are murdered and the Jewish community is banished.
1377 The Pope denounces the doctrines of John Wycliffe.
1455 Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures Henry VI.
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May 19 in History
1499 Catherine of Aragon is married by proxy to Prince Arthur.
1536 Anne Boleyn is beheaded.
1643 The French Army defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Rocroi.
1649 England becomes a republic for eleven years.
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History on 10 June
1190 Emperor Frederick Barbarossa drowns on the Third Crusade.
1358 The peasant forces of the Jacquerie are crushed by the French nobility.
1692 Bridget Bishop is the first person to be hanged during the Salem witch trials.
1793 The Jardin des Plantes is opened in Paris.
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Lincoln responsibility the today." Illinois States United "You President tomorrow of it of evading cannot of the America. the 16th by Abraham escape elected of Republican 1860
#OTD (Mar 17) in the year 1805: The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King of Italy. #OTDIH #history 🗃️ #c19th
The Italian Republic was a short-lived (1802–1805) republic located in Northern Italy. Napoleon Bonaparte served as president and its capital was Milan.
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1536 Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour.
1593 Christoper Marlowe is killed.
1631 The first French newspaper is published.
1640 Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens dies.
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May 23 in History
1430 Jeanne d'Arc is captured.
1498 Savonarola is burned at the stake.
1533 The marriage of Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragaon is declared null and void.
1568 The Eighty Years' War begins.
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