Tweet Every Year

Regular tweets and videos dedicated to condensing every year and day of the history of the world and beyond. All info sourced from the infallible Wikipedia.

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31/8: John Scholasticus died (577), Caligula born (12). After a sudden illness a few days previously, Byzantine Empress Theodora dies childless, thus ending the Macedonian dynasty (1056). The Forbisher expedition departs North America for its journey back to England (1578).

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30/8: Cui Qun died (832), Peter of Castile born (1334). Pope Sixtus II succeeds Pope Stephen I as the 24th pope (257). Paul IV abdicates as patriarch of Constantinople (784). Retainers of Takaie clash with retainers of Michinaga, on the main street of Kyoto, Japan (995).

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29/8: Ingrid Bergman born (1915) and died (1982). Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 581, recording the sale of a slave girl, is written (99). Salonia Matidia receives the title of Augusta upon the death of Marciana (112). The Battle of Fariskur occurs during the Fifth Crusade (1219).

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28/8: Augustine of Hippo died (430), Go-Reizei born (1025). Magnus Maximus surrenders at Aquileia, and is executed (388). End of Theodoric's tricennium, a statute of limitations after which unlawful seizures of land during his invasion of Italy can no longer be contested (519).

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27/8: Guarinus of Sitten died (1150), Anne Marie d'Orléans born (1669). The Battle of St. Quentin results in Emmanuel Philibert becoming Duke of Savoy (1557). The city of Toulon revolts against the French Republic and admits the British and Spanish fleets to seize its port (1793)

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26/8: Arechis II of Benevento died (787), Elisha Williams born (1694). Grimoald III, taken hostage by the Franks, succeeds his father as ruler of Benevento (787). Seljuq Turks defeat the Byzantine army at the Battle of Manzikert, and soon gain control of most of Anatolia (1071).

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25/8: Yang Yan died (274), Philipp Moritz born (1605). Pulcheria is forced to marry and co-rule the Eastern Roman Empire with the senator Marcian (450). The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, the Archbishop of Utrecht (1248).

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24/8: Rudolf Clausius died (1888), Max Beerbohm born (1872). Mount Vesuvius erupts, destroying Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabiae, and Oplontis (79). Gratian is named co-Augustus by his father (367). The town of Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured from Scotland by an English army (1482).

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23/8: Gnaeus Julius Agricola died (93), Miguel da Paz born (1498). Odoacer, chieftain of the Germanic tribes (Herulic - Scirian), is proclaimed rex Italiae by his troops (476). Robert Guiscard, count of Apulia and Calabria, signs the Treaty of Melfi with Pope Nicholas II (1059).

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22/8: Xianfeng died (1861), John Forrest born (1847). Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor (392). Stilicho is accused of treason against Honorius and is decapitated at Ravenna (408). Saint Columba reports seeing the Loch Ness Monster at the River Ness (564).

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21/8: Jean Parisot de Valette died (1568), Roger Twysden born (1597). Kōbun is deposed as emperor after 8 months, during a brief but violent battle called the Jinshin War (672). Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan abdicates, and is succeeded by his son, Go-Tsuchimikado (1464).

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20/8: Lucius Caesar died (2), Shah Rukh born (1377). Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria decisively defeats a Byzantine army in the Battle of Acheloos (917). Rebel forces defeat Byzantines on the plains of Hades (1057). The Crusaders under Tancred capture the coastal city of Haifa (1100).

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19/8: Credan died (780), Íñigo López de Mendoza born (1398). Emperor Shōmu abdicates the throne and is succeeded by his daughter Kōken (749). Abu Yazid, a Kharijite rebel leader, is defeated and killed in the Hodna Mountains in modern-day Algeria by Fatimid forces (947).

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18/8: Ricimer died (472), Charlotte Flandrina of Nassau born (1579). Princess Abe accedes to the imperial Japanese throne as Empress Genmei (707). John White, the governor of the Roanoke Colony, returns from a supply trip to England and finds his settlement deserted (1590).

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17/8: Pope Eusebius died (310), William IX born (1153). Pope Leo II begins his pontificate (682). Al-Rashid is deposed after a 1-year reign and flees to Isfahan (modern Iran) (1136). Ottokar IV, Duke of Styria and Leopold V, Duke of Austria sign the Georgenberg Pact (1186).

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16/8: Qaratis died (842), Paul Gallacher born (1979). Battle of al-Mada'in fought between the Hamdanids of Mosul and the Baridis of Basra over control of the Abbasid capital, Baghdad (942). King Eric of Pomerania is deposed from the Swedish throne at a meeting in Vadstena (1434).

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15/8: Honorius died (423), Teishi born (1013). K'ak' Yipiiy Chan Chaak installed as ruler of Mayan city state of Naranjo (746). Battle of Roncevaux Pass between army of Charlemagne and a Basque army (778). "Holy Mandylion" (cloth with face of Jesus) taken to Constantinople (944).

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14/8: Tiberius II Constantine died (582), Herman Branson born (1914). King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth, who succeeds as King of Scotland (1040). The Crusaders under Baldwin II of Jerusalem defeat Ilghazi's army at Ariha in Syria (1119).

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13/8: Wihtberht died (747), al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah born (985). John I becomes the new Pope after the death of Pope Hormisdas (523). Maurice becomes Emperor of Byzantine Empire (582). Yángdi becomes the second emperor of the Sui Dynasty after assassinating his father Wéndi (604).