A Daily Dose of History (29 Oct 2023) Today's historical events:
- Constantine the Great enters Rome after his victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, stages a grand adventus in the city, and is met with popular jubilation. Maxentius' body is fished out of the Tiber and beheaded.
- Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin Theodosius II, Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople unifying the two branches of the House of Theodosius.
- Conradin is executed along with his companion Frederick I, Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily.
- Battle of Brustem: Charles the Bold defeats Prince-Bishopric of Liège.
- Pope Innocent IX is elected.
- Russian homage to the King of Poland, Sigismund III Vasa.
- English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
- Second Northern War: Naval forces of the Dutch Republic defeat the Swedes in the Battle of the Sound.
- Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
- Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
- Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who sighted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
- Eighteen countries meet in Geneva and agree to form the International Red Cross.
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