Cravant: French Defeat in Hundred Years' War (+ 7 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History: Events on this Day in History · Amalia Dupray and Montgomery Jones
July 31, 20237m 9s
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A Daily Dose of History (31 Jul 2023)
Today's historical events:
- Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant: The French army is defeated by the English at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne.
- Jacques Cœur is arrested by order of Charles VII of France.
- All remaining Jews are expelled from Spain when the Alhambra Decree takes effect.
- On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
- Maurice, Prince of Orange disbands the waardgelders militia in Utrecht, a pivotal event in the Remonstrant/Counter-Remonstrant tensions.
- Russo-Polish War (1654-67): The Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it holds for six years.
- Aurangzeb is proclaimed Mughal emperor of India.
- Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.
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