871: Battle of Reading
In this
battle, King Alfred the
Great was badly defeated by invading Vikings.
1642: King Charles I of England invades Parliament
The Long
Parliament, which met in November, 1640, issued in November of
1641 the Grand Remonstrance, in which all the king's abuses were
detailed. Charles had his attorney general indict for treason the
five members of the House of Commons who led the remonstrance. When
they were not turned over, Charles himself took an armed retinue into
Parliament to apprehend them personally, but the five charged with
treason had been forewarned and had left. Parliament broke up in
great disorder and indignation, and thus the events were set in
motion that resulted in civil war and the eventual beheading of
King
Charles I.
WHO WAS BORN
1581: Bishop James Ussher
Born and raised in Dublin and a graduate of Trinity College,
Ussher rose to
prominence as primate of Ireland and archbishop of Armagh in 1625. He
is best known for the Annales Veteris et Novi Testamenti, in
which he included a Bible chronology that set the Creation at 4004
B.C. This information was included in the Authorized ("King James")
version of the Bible well into the nineteenth century.
WHO DIED
1399: Nicolas Eymeric
Eymeric
(also known as Emeric or Eymericus ) achieved the rank of Grand
Inquisitor and wrote Directorium Inquisitorum, which was the
standard code of procedure used by the Spanish Inquisition for nearly
a century.
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