On This Day
502 – Chinese emperor Xiao Yan names Xiao Tong his heir designate.[1]
Emperor Wu of Liang (Chinese: 梁武帝) (464 – 12 June 549[2]), personal name Xiao Yan (蕭衍), courtesy name Shuda (叔達), childhood name Lian’er (練兒), was the founding emperor of the Chinese Liang dynasty, during the Northern and Southern dynasties period. His reign, until its end, was one of the most stable and prosperous among the Southern dynasties. He came from the same Xiao clan of Lanling (蘭陵蕭氏) that ruled the preceding Southern Qi dynasty, but from a different branch.
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274 – A temple to Sol Invictus is dedicated in Rome by Emperor Aurelian.[2]
The Temple of the Sun was a temple in the Campus Agrippae in Rome. It was dedicated to Sol Invictus on 25 December 274[1] by the emperor Aurelian[2] to fulfill a vow he made following his successful campaign against Palmyra in 272 and funded by spoils from that campaign. A college of pontifices (Dei) Solis and annual games with circus races was established for the cult, as well as four-year games (agon Solis) to be held at the end of the Saturnalia.[3]
1704 – Second Battle of Anandpur: In the Second Battle of Anandpur, Aurangzeb’s two generals, Wazir Khan and Zaberdast Khan executed two children of Guru Gobind Singh, Zorawar Singh aged eight and Fateh Singh aged five, by burying them alive into a wall.[3]
The second siege of Anandpur (anadapura dī ghērābadī), also known as the second battle of Anandpur (1704) [a] (anadapura dī dūjī laṛā’ī sāla satārāṁ sau cāra), was a siege at Anandpur, between Sikhs and the Mughal governors, dispatched by Aurangzeb, Wazir Khan, Dilwaar Kahn and Zaberdast Khan, and aided by the vassal Rajas of the Sivalik Hills which lasted from May 1704 to 19th December 1704.[8][9]
1655 – Second Northern War/the Deluge: Monks at the Jasna Góra Monastery in Częstochowa are successful in fending off a month-long siege.[4]
The Second Northern War (1655–60), (also First or Little Northern War) was fought between Sweden and its adversaries the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1655–60), the Tsardom of Russia (1656–58), Brandenburg-Prussia (1657–60), the Habsburg monarchy (1657–60) and Denmark–Norway (1657–58 and 1658–60). The Dutch Republic waged an informal trade war against Sweden and seized the colony of New Sweden in 1655, but was not a recognized part of the Polish–Danish alliance.
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484 – Alaric II succeeds his father Euric and becomes king of the Visigoths. He establishes his capital at Aire-sur-l’Adour (Southern Gaul).
Alaric II (Gothic: ????????????????????????????????, Alareiks, “ruler of all”;[1] Latin: Alaricus; c. 458/466 – August 507) was the King of the Visigoths from 484 until 507. He succeeded his father Euric as king of the Visigoths in Toulouse on 28 December 484;[2] he was the great-grandson of the more famous Alaric I, who sacked Rome in 410. He established his capital at Aire-sur-l’Adour (Vicus Julii) in Aquitaine. His dominions included not only the majority of Hispania (excluding its northwestern corner) but also Gallia Aquitania and the greater part of an as-yet undivided Gallia Narbonensis.
1503 – The Battle of Garigliano was fought between a Spanish army under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba and a French army commanded by Ludovico II, Marquess of Saluzzo.[2]
The Battle of Garigliano was fought on 29 December 1503 between a Spanish army under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba and a French army commanded by Ludovico II, Marquis of Saluzzo.
999 – Battle of Glenmama: The combined forces of Munster and Meath under king Brian Boru inflict a crushing defeat on the allied armies of Leinster and Dublin near Lyons Hill in Ireland.
The Battle of Glenn Máma or Glenmama (Irish: Cath Ghleann Máma, The Battle of “The Glen of the Gap”[5]) took place most probably near Lyons Hill in Ardclough, County Kildare, Ireland, in AD 999[6][7][8] between Windmill Hill and Blackchurch.[9] It was the decisive and only engagement of the brief Leinster revolt of 999–1000 against the King of Munster, Brian Boru. In it, the combined forces of the Kingdoms of Munster and Meath, under King Brian Boru and the High King of Ireland, Máel Sechnaill II, inflicted a crushing defeat on the allied armies of Leinster and Dublin, led by King Máel Mórda of Leinster.
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Born On This Day
1389 – John V, Duke of Brittany (d. 1442)[46]
John V, sometimes numbered as VI, (24 December 1389 – 29 August 1442) bynamed John the Wise (Breton: Yann ar Fur ; French: Jean le Sage), was Duke of Brittany and Count of Montfort from 1399 to his death. His rule coincided with the height of the Hundred Years’ War between England and France. John’s reversals in that conflict, as well as in other internal struggles in France, served to strengthen his duchy and to maintain its independence.[1]
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1281 – Alice de Lacy, 4th Countess of Lincoln (d. 1348)
Alice de Lacy, suo jure Countess of Lincoln, suo jure 5th Countess of Salisbury (25 December 1281 – 2 October 1348) was an English peeress.
1446 – Charles de Valois, Duke de Berry, French noble (d. 1472)
Charles (French: Charles de France; 26 December 1446 – 24/25 May 1472), Duke of Berry, later Duke of Normandy and Duke of Aquitaine, was a son of Charles VII, King of France. He spent most of his life in conflict with his elder brother, King Louis XI.[1]
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1390 – Anne de Mortimer, claimant to the English throne (d. 1411)[17]
Anne de Mortimer (27 December 1388 – c. 22 September 1411) was a medieval English noblewoman who became an ancestor to the royal House of York, one of the parties in the fifteenth-century dynastic Wars of the Roses. It was her line of descent which gave the Yorkist dynasty its claim to the throne. Anne was the mother of Richard, Duke of York, and thus grandmother of kings Edward IV and Richard III, and great-grandmother of Edward V.
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1510 – Nicholas Bacon, English politician (d. 1579)
Sir Nicholas Bacon (28 December 1510 – 20 February 1579) was Lord Keeper of the Great Seal during the first half of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England. He was the father of the philosopher and statesman Sir Francis Bacon.
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1550 – García de Silva Figueroa, Spanish diplomat and traveller (d. 1624)[35]
Don García de Silva Figueroa (December 29, 1550 – July 22, 1624) was a Spanish diplomat, and the first Western traveller to correctly identify the ruins of Takht-e Jamshid in Persia as the location of Persepolis, the ancient capital of the Achaemenid Empire and one of the great cities of antiquity.
1204 – Abû ‘Uthmân Sa’îd ibn Hakam al Qurashi, ruler of Minorca (d. 1282)
Abû ‘Uthman Sa’îd ibn Hakam al-Qurashi (30 December 1204 – 9 January 1282) (Arabic: أبو عثمان سعيد بن الحكم القرشي) was the first Ra’îs[1] of Manûrqa (modern Menorca) from 1234 to 1282.
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Thomas Bolyn Smothers III (February 2, 1937 – December 26, 2023) was an American comedian, actor, composer, and musician, widely known as half of the musical comedy duo the Smothers Brothers, alongside his younger brother Dick.
Smothers and John Lennon played acoustic guitar during the live recording of Lennon’s 1969 song “Give Peace a Chance”.[2]
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