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Roquefort Cheese Monopoly: A Medieval Tale (+ 9 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (04 Jun 2023)
Today's historical events:
King Charles VI granted a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they had been doing for centuries.
Siege of Osaka: Forces under Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan.
Battle of Hohenfriedberg: Frederick the Great's Prussian army decisively defeated an Austrian army under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine during the War of the Austrian Succession.
The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
Élisabeth Thible becomes the first woman to…
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