It happened today – this day in history – March 13
1639: Cambridge College, Massachusetts, is renamed Harvard. 1781: William Herschel sees what he thinks is a comet but is actually
Read more1639: Cambridge College, Massachusetts, is renamed Harvard. 1781: William Herschel sees what he thinks is a comet but is actually
Read more1327: Teenager Edward III is crowned king of England but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and
Read more588BC: 1412: Birth of Joan of Arc. 708: Sisinnius begins his 20-day reign as Pope 153Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon lays
Read more306: Maxentius is proclaimed Emperor of Rome. 969: Byzantine troops occupy Antioch. 1216: Henry III aged nine, is crowned king
Read more362: The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside of Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire. 1383: A two-year period
Read more987: Louis IV is crowned king of France. 1306: The Earl of Pembroke’s army defeats Robert the Bruce’s Scottish army
Read more1461: Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton – Duke of York defeats the Lancastrian army, deposes King Henry VI
Read more1327: Teenager Edward III is crowned king of England buut the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and
Read more1380: King Charles VI of France is crowned at age 12. 1524: Francisco Pizarro begins his first great expedition, near
Read more79: Mt. Vesuvius erupts, burying the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis and Stabiae, killing thousands. 1346: King David II of
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