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Zoe: From Empress Consort to Empress - Byzantine Power Struggles (+ 6 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (12 Nov 2023)
Today's historical events:
Future Byzantine empress Zoe takes the throne as empress consort to Romanos III Argyros.
Battle of Posada ends: Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army by ambush.
Construction is completed on the Wilberforce Monument in Kingston Upon Hull.
Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between the Emirate of Afghanistan and the British Raj…
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