Tuesday, November 12, 2013

History Trivia - Canute the Great dies

November 12

607 Boniface III died. Before he became Pope, Boniface went as a legate to Constantinople and obtained from the emperor Phocas an edict that recognized the See of Rome as the head of all the churches.

 1035 Canute the Great died. King Canute I of England was also King Canute II of Denmark and King Canute of Norway, and was known as "the Great" because of the empire he built in Britain and Scandinavia.

1276 Suspicious of the intentions of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, the Prince of Wales, English King Edward I resolved to invade Wales. 1

439 Plymouth, England, became the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.

1555 The English Parliament re-established Catholicism.

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