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

Otto IV's Coronation: Power Struggle in Medieval Europe (+ 12 more historical events on this day!)

10 min • 4 oktober 2024

A Daily Dose of History (04 Oct 2024)

Today's historical events:

  • Otto IV is crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Innocent III.
  • The Byzantine-Venetian War comes to an end.
  • Battle of Lake Poyang: In one of the largest naval battles in history, Zhu Yuanzhang's rebels defeat rival Chen Youliang.
  • Formation of the Holy League of Aragon, the Papal States and Venice against France.
  • The Coverdale Bible is printed, with translations into English by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale.
  • The Gregorian Calendar is introduced by Pope Gregory XIII.
  • Governor Gonzalo Méndez de Canço begins to suppress a native uprising against his rule in what is now the state of Georgia.
  • Eighty Years' War and the Anglo-Spanish War: A fleet of Spanish galleys are defeated by English and Dutch galleons in the English Channel.
  • Thirty Years' War: The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
  • Nine Years' War: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.
  • Napoleon first rises to prominence by suppressing counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the National Convention.
  • Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.
  • The Belgian Revolution takes legal form when the provisional government secedes from the Netherlands.

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