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In 881 CE kings Louis III and his brother Carloman II of France (well Neustria & Francia and Aquitaine & Burgundy respectively) defeated the Vikings at Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu. This was an important defeat, and a rare pitched battle, against the Scandinavian raiders.
It didn't do much to slow the decline of the Carolingian empire though.
In 1492 Christopher Columbus set sail on his first voyage to the Indies with the three ships (Santa María, Pinta and Niña) from Palos de la Frontera in Spain. Of course due to drastically underestimating the size of the Earth they'd all have died in the Atlantic, but for the existence of the Americas.
In 1529 Treaty of Cambrai (also known as the "Peace of the Ladies") was agreed between the Holy Roman Empire and the French kindgom, negotiated by Louise of Savoy (mother of Francis I and regent in his absences) and Margaret of Austria (aunt of HRE Charles V and regent of the Netherlands). Basically the two agreed to pause the fighting for a while.
The backdrop was the French attempt to weaken and replace Spanish influence on the Italian peninsula and had involved a frequently shifting web of self-serving alliance between France, Spain, the Spanish Netherlands, England, Venice, the Papacy, Milan, Naples and other states.
In 1704 the Angle-Dutch fleet of the League of Augsburg (England, the Netherlands and Austria; basically an anti-French alliance) capture the port Gibraltar. This was one act of the long War of the Spanish Succession.
Two hundred years later the 'Younghusband Expedition' under Francis Younghusband enters the forbidden city of Lhasa in Tibet on 03AUG1904. The expedition was more of an invasion; officially intended to settle border disputes with British India the expedition massacred at least six thousand Tibetans (mostly monks) and imposed the 'Convention Between Great Britain and Tibet'. The matter was so embarrassing to the British Government, especially Curzon and the India Office, that it was repudiated.
Three years after that saw a rather interesting meeting between Emperor Wilhelm II and his cousin Tsar Nicholas II to discuss the German plan to build a railway to Baghdad; the discussion was unfruitful (Russia felt threatened by connection between the Ottoman territories and Germany) and pushed Russia towards alliance with Britain. The Anglo-Russian Entente was formalised later that month.
Some historians consider the Baghdad railway a significant factor in ratcheting up tensions in the lead to the Great War.
On this day in 1914 Edward Grey, British Secretary of Sate for the Foreign Department, remarked "The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our time". The day saw the German invasion of Belgium as part of it's plan for a quick knock-out blow against France. This hope for a quick victory would end on the Marne.
Note: This plan is often 'credited' to Schlieffen but actually was developed by his successor, von Moltke the younger. Schlieffen's actual war plan had envisaged a huge German assault against the slow moving Russian forces while remaining on the defensive in the west. In that plan the first great Franco-German battle would have occurred in the third week of hostilities roughly on the line of the Saar between Sarrebourg and Saarbrücken and flanked by the German fortresses of Metz and Strasbourg.
The USS Nautilus was under the Arctic ice and today in 1958 reaches the North Pole, but did not surface.
In 1972 Conservative Prime Minister of Britain Edward Heath proclaimed a State of Emergency (again) due to the ongoing dockers strike.
A year later the Isle of Man saw the Summerland Disaster where a fire at a leisure centre killed 53 people, due to a mixture of ineptitude, poor selection of materials, panic and lack of organised evacuation.
In 881 CE kings Louis III and his brother Carloman II of France (well Neustria & Francia and Aquitaine & Burgundy respectively) defeated the Vikings at Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu. This was an important defeat, and a rare pitched battle, against the Scandinavian raiders.
It didn't do much to slow the decline of the Carolingian empire though.
In 1492 Christopher Columbus set sail on his first voyage to the Indies with the three ships (Santa María, Pinta and Niña) from Palos de la Frontera in Spain. Of course due to drastically underestimating the size of the Earth they'd all have died in the Atlantic, but for the existence of the Americas.
In 1529 Treaty of Cambrai (also known as the "Peace of the Ladies") was agreed between the Holy Roman Empire and the French kindgom, negotiated by Louise of Savoy (mother of Francis I and regent in his absences) and Margaret of Austria (aunt of HRE Charles V and regent of the Netherlands). Basically the two agreed to pause the fighting for a while.
The backdrop was the French attempt to weaken and replace Spanish influence on the Italian peninsula and had involved a frequently shifting web of self-serving alliance between France, Spain, the Spanish Netherlands, England, Venice, the Papacy, Milan, Naples and other states.
In 1704 the Angle-Dutch fleet of the League of Augsburg (England, the Netherlands and Austria; basically an anti-French alliance) capture the port Gibraltar. This was one act of the long War of the Spanish Succession.
Two hundred years later the 'Younghusband Expedition' under Francis Younghusband enters the forbidden city of Lhasa in Tibet on 03AUG1904. The expedition was more of an invasion; officially intended to settle border disputes with British India the expedition massacred at least six thousand Tibetans (mostly monks) and imposed the 'Convention Between Great Britain and Tibet'. The matter was so embarrassing to the British Government, especially Curzon and the India Office, that it was repudiated.
Three years after that saw a rather interesting meeting between Emperor Wilhelm II and his cousin Tsar Nicholas II to discuss the German plan to build a railway to Baghdad; the discussion was unfruitful (Russia felt threatened by connection between the Ottoman territories and Germany) and pushed Russia towards alliance with Britain. The Anglo-Russian Entente was formalised later that month.
Some historians consider the Baghdad railway a significant factor in ratcheting up tensions in the lead to the Great War.
On this day in 1914 Edward Grey, British Secretary of Sate for the Foreign Department, remarked "The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our time". The day saw the German invasion of Belgium as part of it's plan for a quick knock-out blow against France. This hope for a quick victory would end on the Marne.
Note: This plan is often 'credited' to Schlieffen but actually was developed by his successor, von Moltke the younger. Schlieffen's actual war plan had envisaged a huge German assault against the slow moving Russian forces while remaining on the defensive in the west. In that plan the first great Franco-German battle would have occurred in the third week of hostilities roughly on the line of the Saar between Sarrebourg and Saarbrücken and flanked by the German fortresses of Metz and Strasbourg.
The USS Nautilus was under the Arctic ice and today in 1958 reaches the North Pole, but did not surface.
In 1972 Conservative Prime Minister of Britain Edward Heath proclaimed a State of Emergency (again) due to the ongoing dockers strike.
A year later the Isle of Man saw the Summerland Disaster where a fire at a leisure centre killed 53 people, due to a mixture of ineptitude, poor selection of materials, panic and lack of organised evacuation.
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