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A Daily Dose of History: Events on this Day in History

Berengar I: The Iron Crown & Italy's Political Shift (+ 9 more historical events on this day!)

8 min • 26 december 2023

A Daily Dose of History (26 Dec 2023)

Today's historical events:

  • Berengar I is elected as king of Italy by the lords of Lombardy. He is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy at Pavia.
  • Battle of Westbroek: An army of 4,000 to 5,000 soldiers raised by David of Burgundy, Bishop of Utrecht, attacks an armed mob of people from nearby Utrecht who were trying to avenge the massacre of the inhabitants of Westbroek.
  • Second Battle of Anandpur: In the Second Battle of Anandpur, Aurangzeb's two generals, Wazir Khan and Zaberdast Khan executed two children of Guru Gobind Singh, Zorawar Singh aged eight and Fateh Singh aged five, by burying them alive into a wall.
  • American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Trenton, the Continental Army attacks and successfully defeats a garrison of Hessian forces.
  • Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution.
  • Henry Lee III's eulogy to George Washington in congress declares him as "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen".
  • Austria and France sign the Treaty of Pressburg.
  • Battles of Pultusk and Golymin: Russian forces hold French forces under Napoleon.
  • Advocates of liberalism in Russia rise up against Czar Nicholas I in the Decembrist revolt, but are later suppressed.
  • First Rules derby is held between Sheffield F.C. and Hallam F.C., the oldest football fixture in the world.

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