A Daily Dose of History: Events on this Day in History
We examine the significant events that occurred on this day in history. Get smarter about our history in less than 10 minutes per day! Presented by Amalia Dupray and Montgomery Jones.
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A Daily Dose of History (05 Jun 2025)
Today's historical events:
Kraków, in Poland, receives city rights.
Battle of the Gulf of Naples: Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon, destroys the Neapolitan fleet and captures Charles of Salerno.
The Battle of Worringen ends the War of the Limburg Succession, with John I, Duke of Brabant, being one of the more important victors.
The masque Tethys' Festival is performed ...
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A Daily Dose of History (04 Jun 2025)
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.
The steeple of St Paul's, the medieval cathedral of London, is destroyed in a fire caused by lightning and is never rebuilt.
Siege of Osaka: Forces under Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan.
Battle of Hohenfr...
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A Daily Dose of History (03 Jun 2025)
Today's historical events:
The Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
The Byzantine emperor Philippicus is blinded, deposed and sent into exile by conspirators of the Opsikion army in Thrace. He is succeeded by Anastasios II, who begins the reorganization of the Byzantine army.
After 5-mon...
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A Daily Dose of History (02 Jun 2025)
Today's historical events:
Sack of Rome: Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks.
First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city; the second siege began five days later.
London: Virginia gets new charter, extending borders from "sea to sea".
The first Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
Franco-Dutch War: France ...
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June 1, 2025 • 9 mins
A Daily Dose of History (01 Jun 2025)
Today's historical events:
Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
Alfonso X is proclaimed king of Castile and León.
Residents of Riga and Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida.
A monk, John Cor, records the first known ba...
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May 31, 2025 • 9 mins
A Daily Dose of History (31 May 2025)
Today's historical events:
Emperor Petronius Maximus is stoned to death by an angry mob while fleeing Rome.
Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River: Mongol armies of Genghis Khan led by Subutai defeat Kievan Rus' and Cumans.
King Henry III lays the first stone of the Pont Neuf (New Bridge), the oldest bridge of Paris, France.
Citing poor eyesight as a reason, Samuel Pepys...
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A Daily Dose of History (30 May 2025)
Today's historical events:
Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem. Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometres.
Beginning of the Peasants' Revolt in England.
The Council of Constance, called by Emperor Sigismund, a supporter of Antipope John XXIII, burns Jerome ...
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A Daily Dose of History (29 May 2025)
Today's historical events:
The Roman emperor Julian defeats the Sasanian army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Sasanian capital, but is unable to take the city.
Battle of Uclés: Almoravid troops under the command of Tamim ibn Yusuf defeat a Castile and León alliance under the command of Prince Sancho Alfónsez.
Battle of Monte Porzio: A Roman army supporting Pope Alexander...
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A Daily Dose of History (28 May 2025)
Today's historical events:
Battle of Hulao: Li Shimin, the son of the Chinese emperor Gaozu, defeats the numerically superior forces of Dou Jiande near the Hulao Pass (Henan). This victory decides the outcome of the civil war that followed the Sui dynasty's collapse in favour of the Tang dynasty.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, declares the marriage of King Henry VIII of Engla...
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May 27, 2025 • 8 mins
A Daily Dose of History (27 May 2025)
Today's historical events:
Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed.
Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.
Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.
John is crowned King of England.
Richard of Cornwall, and his wife, Sanchia of Provence, are crowned King and Queen of the Germans at Aachen Ca...
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A Daily Dose of History (26 May 2025)
Today's historical events:
Germanicus celebrates a triumph in Rome for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti, and other German tribes west of the Elbe.
Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sasanian Empire takes place. The Sasanids defeat the Armenians militarily but guarantee them freedom to openly practice Christianity.
King Edmund I of England is murdered by a thief whom h...
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A Daily Dose of History (25 May 2025)
Today's historical events:
Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo, Spain, back from the Moors.
Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of Christ.
The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.
Ming general Wu Sangui forms an alliance with the invading Manchus and opens the gates of the Great Wall of China...
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A Daily Dose of History (24 May 2025)
Today's historical events:
The nobles of Franconia and Saxony elect Henry the Fowler at the Imperial Diet in Fritzlar as king of the East Frankish Kingdom.
Magnus Ladulås is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral.
The ten-year-old Lambert Simnel is crowned in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland, with the name of Edward VI in a bid to threaten King Henry VII's reign.
Erik XIV of ...
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May 23, 2025 • 9 mins
A Daily Dose of History (23 May 2025)
Today's historical events:
Joan of Arc is captured at the Siege of Compiègne by troops from the Burgundian faction.
Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy.
The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.
Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Arenberg, and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee,...
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A Daily Dose of History (21 May 2025)
Today's historical events:
Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as Caesar to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy.
Syracuse, Sicily, is captured by the Muslim Aghlabids after a nine-month siege.
Pope John VIII gives blessings to Branimir of Croatia and to the Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of the Croatian sta...
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A Daily Dose of History (20 May 2025)
Today's historical events:
The First Council of Nicaea is formally opened, starting the first ecumenical council of the Christian Church.
Empress Ariadne marries Anastasius I. The widowed Augusta is able to choose her successor for the Byzantine throne, after Zeno (late emperor) dies of dysentery.
The Battle of Dun Nechtain is fought between a Pictish army under King Bridei III and the inv...
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May 19, 2025 • 6 mins
A Daily Dose of History (19 May 2025)
Today's historical events:
Ashina Jiesheshuai and his tribesmen assaulted Emperor Taizong at Jiucheng Palace.
John II of Castile defeats the Infantes of Aragon at the First Battle of Olmedo.
French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona's two sons (whom Cartier had kidnapped during his first voyage).
Anne Bol...
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A Daily Dose of History (18 May 2025)
Today's historical events:
Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople.
Louis II of Italy is crowned for the second time as Holy Roman Emperor at Rome, at the age of 47. His first coronation was 28 years earlier, in 844, during the reign of his father Lothair I.
First Crusade: Around 800 Jews are massacred in Worms, Germany.
The fut...
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A Daily Dose of History (17 May 2025)
Today's historical events:
Battle of Rovine: The Wallachians defeat an invading Ottoman army.
Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason.
Pánfilo de Narváez departs Spain to explore Florida with 600 men - by 1536 only 4 survive.
George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford and four other men are executed for treason.
Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn's marriage is annulled.
Anne ...
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A Daily Dose of History (16 May 2025)
Today's historical events:
Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan.
Having been elected on May 9, Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
Gov. Thado of Mohnyin becomes king of Ava.
The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes itself as a repub...
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