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

Cravant: French Defeat in Hundred Years' War (+ 7 more historical events on this day!)

7 min • 31 juli 2023

A Daily Dose of History (31 Jul 2023)

Today's historical events:

  • Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant: The French army is defeated by the English at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne.
  • Jacques Cœur is arrested by order of Charles VII of France.
  • All remaining Jews are expelled from Spain when the Alhambra Decree takes effect.
  • On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
  • Maurice, Prince of Orange disbands the waardgelders militia in Utrecht, a pivotal event in the Remonstrant/Counter-Remonstrant tensions.
  • Russo-Polish War (1654-67): The Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it holds for six years.
  • Aurangzeb is proclaimed Mughal emperor of India.
  • Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.

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