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12 August 1480 – Battle of Otranto: Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam; they are later honored in the Church. 1484 –Death of Pope Sixtus IV 1499 – First engagement of the Battle of Zonchio between Venetian and Ottoman...

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11 August 1332 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Dupplin Moor – Scots under Domhnall II, Earl of Mar are routed by Edward Balliol. 1467 – Birth of Mary of York ,second daughter of Edward IV and his queen consort Elizabeth Woodville.She was a...

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09 August 1483 – Opening of the Sistine Chapel in Rome with the celebration of a Mass. 1561 - Elizabeth I declared that bishop's and university fellows' wives could not live in the colleges or cathedral churches. 1588-Speech to the Troops at Tilbury The...

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8 August 1503 – King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England at Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh, Scotland. 1533- Henry VIII. to Norfolk and Rochford Had written to him by lord Rochford what arguments he should use...

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07 August 936 – Coronation of King Otto I of Germany. 1106 – Death of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor 1420 – Construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore begins in Florence. 1427 – The Visconti of Milan's fleet is destroyed by the Venetians on the Po...

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06 August 1414 – Death of Ladislaus of Naples 1458 – Death of Pope Callixtus III 1504 – Birth of Matthew Parker, English archbishop 1514 - Marriage of Margaret Tudor and Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus 1544-Queen Catherine Parr to the Council with...

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05 August 1100 – Henry I is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey. 1278 – The Siege of Algeciras ends in the context of the Spanish Reconquista pitting the forces of the Kingdom of Castile against the Emirate of Granada. The battle resulted in...

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4 August 1327 – First War of Scottish Independence: James Douglas leads a raid into Weardale and almost kills Edward III of England. 1430 –Death of Philip I, Duke of Brabant 1521 – Birth of Pope Urban VII 1530-Determination of the university of Alcala...

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03 August 1460 – Death of James II of Scotland 1491 – Birth of Maria of Jülich-Berg 1492 – Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain. 1525-Mary queen of France to Wolsey Asks credence for her servant, George Hampton, the bearer,...

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2 August 1343 – Olivier de Clisson is found guilty of treason and beheaded at Les Halles in Paris. As a result, his wife, Jeanne de Clisson, sold their holding, bought a fleet of ships, and took to the sea as a pirate to seek revenge against the French...

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