zweig (11)in #short • 5 years agoHistorical events on the 8th of DecemberHistorical events on the 8th of December 1504 – Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah penned his Oran fatwa, arguing for the relaxation of Islamic law requirements for the forcibly…zweig (11)in #knowledge • 5 years agoHistorical events on the 7th of DecemberHistorical events on the 7th of December 1703 – The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, makes landfall.…zweig (11)in #history • 5 years agoHistorical events on the 6th of DecemberHistorical events on the 6th of December 963 – Pope Leo VIII is appointed to the office of Protonotary and begins his papacy as antipope of Rome. 1745 – Charles…zweig (11)in #history • 6 years agoHistorical events on the 28th of NovemberHistorical events on the 28th of November 936 – Shi Jingtang is enthroned as the first emperor of the Later Jin by Emperor Taizong of Liao, following a revolt against…zweig (11)in #history • 6 years agoHistorical events on the 27th of NovemberHistorical events on the 27th of November 176 – Emperor Marcus Aurelius grants his son Commodus the rank of "Imperator" and makes him Supreme Commander of the Roman…zweig (11)in #history • 6 years agoHistorical events on the 26th of NovemberHistorical events on the 26th of November 1161 – Battle of Caishi: A Song dynasty fleet fights a naval engagement with Jin dynasty ships on the Yangtze river during the…zweig (11)in #history • 6 years agoHistorical events on the 25th of NovemberHistorical events on the 25th of November 1177 – Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Châtillon defeat Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard. 1678 – Trunajaya…zweig (11)in #short • 6 years agoHistorical events on the 24th of NovemberHistorical events on the 24th of November 1429 – Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charité. 1642 – Abel Tasman becomes the first European…zweig (11)in #knowledge • 6 years agoHistorical events on the 23rd of NovemberHistorical events on the 23rd of November 1510 – First campaign of the Ottoman Empire against the Kingdom of Imereti (modern western Georgia). Ottoman armies sack the…zweig (11)in #short • 6 years agoHistorical events on the 22nd of NovemberHistorical events on the 22nd of November 845 – The first duke of Brittany, Nominoe, defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon.…zweig (11)in #knowledge • 6 years agoHistorical events on the 21st of NovemberHistorical events on the 21st of November 1676 – The Danish astronomer Ole Rømer presents the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light. 1861 – American…zweig (11)in #short • 6 years agoHistorical events on the 20th of NovemberHistorical events on the 20th of November 1695 – Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, is executed by the forces of Portuguese…zweig (11)in #history • 6 years agoHistorical events on the 19th of NovemberHistorical events on the 19th of November 636 – The Rashidun Caliphate defeated the Sasanian Empire at the Battle of al-Qādisiyyah in Iraq. 1847 – The second…zweig (11)in #knowledge • 6 years agoHistorical events on the 18th of NovemberHistorical events on the 18th of November 1180 – Phillip II becomes king of France. 1282 – Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon. 1626 – The…zweig (11)in #history • 6 years agoHistorical events on the 17th of NovemberHistorical events on the 17th of November 887 – Emperor Charles the Fat is deposed by the Frankish magnates in an assembly at Frankfurt. His nephew Arnulf of Carinthia…zweig (11)in #knowledge • 6 years agoHistorical events on the 15th of NovemberHistorical events on the 15th of November 1315 – Battle of Morgarten: The Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I. 1760 – The secondly-built…zweig (11)in #history • 6 years agoHistorical events on the 14th of NovemberHistorical events on the 14th of November 1862 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate…zweig (11)in #short • 6 years agoHistorical events on the 13th of NovemberHistorical events on the 13th of November 1841 – James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls…zweig (11)in #history • 6 years agoHistorical events on the 12th of NovemberHistorical events on the 12th of November 954 – The 13-year-old Lothair III is crowned at the Abbey of Saint-Remi as king of the West Frankish Kingdom. 1905 –…zweig (11)in #short • 6 years agoHistorical events on the 11th of NovemberHistorical events on the 11th of November 1028 – Constantine VIII died, ending his uninterrupted reign as emperor or co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire of 66 years.…