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Coronation of Henry II: Reign of Power (+ 9 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (19 Dec 2024)
Today's historical events:
Henry II of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey.
Pope Clement III is elected.
Anne, Duchess of Brittany, is married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy.
The Battle of Dreux takes place during the French Wars of Religion.
The ships Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery depart England carrying settlers who founded, at Jamestown, Virginia, the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States.
Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled "The American Crisis"…
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