Maya King's Military Triumph: Sacking Palenque (+ 7 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History: Events on this Day in History · Amalia Dupray and Montgomery Jones
April 4, 20256m 38s
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Show Notes
A Daily Dose of History (04 Apr 2025)
Today's historical events:
- Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul sacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico.
- A five-year Byzantine-Venetian peace treaty is concluded between Venetian envoys and Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos.
- Death of the Venetian Doge Tommaso Mocenigo, under whose rule victories were achieved against the Kingdom of Hungary and against the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Gallipoli (1416).
- Francis Drake is knighted by Queen Elizabeth I for completing a circumnavigation of the world.
- Moriscos are expelled from the Kingdom of Valencia.
- Declaration of Breda by King Charles II of Great Britain promises, among other things, a general pardon to all royalists and opponents of the monarchy for crimes committed during the English Civil War and the Interregnum.
- Georges Cuvier delivers the first paleontological lecture.
- Napoleon abdicates (conditionally) for the first time and names his son Napoleon II as Emperor of the French, followed by unconditional abdication two days later.
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