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King Louis the Pious: Capture of Barcelona (+ 8 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (04 Apr 2024)
Today's historical events:
King Louis the Pious captures Barcelona from the Moors after a siege of several months.
A five-year Byzantine-Venetian peace treaty is concluded between Venetian envoys and Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos.
Francis Drake is knighted by Queen Elizabeth I for completing a circumnavigation of the world.
Moriscos are expelled from the Kingdom of Valencia.
Declaration of Breda by King Charles II of Great Britain promises, among other things, a general pardon to all royalists and opponents of the monarchy for crimes committed during…
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