Yarmouk: Arab-Byzantine Clash & Islamic Rise (+ 7 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History: Events on this Day in History · Amalia Dupray and Montgomery Jones
August 15, 20237m 6s
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A Daily Dose of History (15 Aug 2023)
Today's historical events:
- Arab-Byzantine wars: The Battle of Yarmouk between Byzantine Empire and Rashidun Caliphate begins.
- The Battle of Roncevaux Pass takes place between the army of Charlemagne and a Basque army.
- Noble Erchana of Dahauua grants the Bavarian town of Dachau to the Diocese of Freising
- The Saracens conquer and destroy Taranto.
- Holy Roman Emperor Otto II is defeated by the Saracens in the Battle of Capo Colonna, in Calabria.
- Byzantine general Eustathios Daphnomeles blinds and captures Ibatzes of Bulgaria by a ruse, thereby ending Bulgarian resistance against Emperor Basil II's conquest of Bulgaria.
- King Stephen I, the first king of Hungary, dies; his nephew, Peter Orseolo, succeeds him.
- King Macbeth is killed at the Battle of Lumphanan by the forces of Máel Coluim mac Donnchada.
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