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

Theodosius I's Proclamation: Honorius as Co-Emperor (+ 13 more historical events on this day!)

12 min • 23 januari 2024

A Daily Dose of History (23 Jan 2024)

Today's historical events:

  • Roman emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight-year-old son Honorius co-emperor.
  • Using crossbows, Song dynasty troops soundly defeat a war elephant corps of the Southern Han at Shao.
  • In the conflict between King Henry III of England and his rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, King Louis IX of France issues the Mise of Amiens, a one-sided decision in favour of Henry that later leads to the Second Barons' War.
  • In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang ascends the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries.
  • Having published nothing for eleven years, François Rabelais publishes the Tiers Livre, his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel.
  • The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000.
  • James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent for the infant King James VI of Scotland, is assassinated by firearm, the first recorded instance of such.
  • The Royal Exchange opens in London.
  • The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands.
  • Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales.
  • The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire.
  • Georgetown College, the first Catholic university in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.) when Bishop John Carroll, Rev. Robert Molyneux, and Rev. John Ashton purchase land for the proposed academy for the education of youth.
  • Second Partition of Poland.
  • After an extraordinary charge across the frozen Zuiderzee, the French cavalry captured 14 Dutch ships and 850 guns, in a rare occurrence of a battle between ships and cavalry.

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