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

Sack of Rome: End of Renaissance (+ 7 more historical events on this day!)

7 min • 6 maj 2023

A Daily Dose of History (06 May 2023)

Today's historical events:

  • Spanish and German troops sack Rome; many scholars consider this the end of the Renaissance.
  • The Siege of Cuzco commences, in which Incan forces attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Spanish.
  • Francis Xavier reaches Old Goa, the capital of Portuguese India at the time.
  • The Dutch city of Coevorden held by the Spanish, falls to a Dutch and English force.
  • English Restoration: A faction of the British Army removes Richard Cromwell as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth and reinstalls the Rump Parliament.
  • Battle of Prague: A Prussian army fights an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years' War.
  • The end of Konbaung-Hanthawaddy War, and the end of Burmese Civil War (1740-1757).
  • English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.

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