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Otho's Reign: Rise, Fall & Suicide in Rome (+ 9 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (15 Jan 2025)
Today's historical events:
Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, beginning a reign of only three months.
King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to settle the province of New France (Canada) and provide for the spread of the "Holy Catholic faith".
Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey, London.
Truce of Yam-Zapolsky: Russia cedes Livonia to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
The British Museum opens to the public.
American Revolutionary War: New Connecticut (present-day Vermont)…
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