Zoe: From Empress Consort to Empress - Byzantine Power Struggles (+ 6 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History: Events on this Day in History · Amalia Dupray and Montgomery Jones
November 12, 20236m 31s
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A Daily Dose of History (12 Nov 2023)
Today's historical events:
- Future Byzantine empress Zoe takes the throne as empress consort to Romanos III Argyros.
- Battle of Posada ends: Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army by ambush.
- Construction is completed on the Wilberforce Monument in Kingston Upon Hull.
- Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
- Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between the Emirate of Afghanistan and the British Raj.
- Norway holds a referendum resulting in popular approval of the Storting's decision to authorise the government to make the offer of the throne of the newly independent country.
- First Balkan War: King George I of Greece makes a triumphal entry into Thessaloniki after its liberation from 482 years of Ottoman rule.
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