31st of March
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 at 12:52 am by Maja Williams
0307 After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Maximian.
1084 Anti-pope Clemens crowns German emperor Hendrik IV
1146 Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vzelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade.
1492 Queen Isabella of Castilia and Ferdinand of Aragon expels Jews
1504 France and Spain signs ceasefire
1521 Magelhaes takes possession of Homohon, Archipelago of St Lazarus
1547 Henry II succeeds François I as king of France
1644 Pope Urbanus VIII and duke of Parma signs Peace of Ferrara
1651 Great earthquake at Cuzco Peru
1657 English Humble Petition offers Lord Protector Cromwell the crown
1667 France/England sign anti-Dutch military accord
1683 Emperor Leopold I/Poland signs covenant against Turkey
1717 A sermon on “The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ” by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provoked the Bangorian Controversy.
1776 Abigail Adams wrote her famous “Remember the ladies” letter to her husband, John, urging him to include women as he helped construct the US Constitution. He didn’t.
1808 French created Kingdom of Westphalia orders Jews to adopt family names
1814 Forces allied against Napoleon capture Paris France
1822 The massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following a rebellion attempt, depicted by the French artist Eugne Delacroix.
1831 Mainzer Rijnvaart Convention ends
1831 Québec and Montréal incorporated
1837 Death of English landscape painter John Constable.
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