A Daily Dose of History (13 Jun 2024) Today's historical events:

• Ibn Battuta begins his travels, leaving his home in Tangiers to travel to Mecca (gone 24 years).
• In England, the Peasants' Revolt, led by Wat Tyler, comes to a head, as rebels set fire to the Savoy Palace.
• Henry Grace à Dieu, at over 1,000 tons the largest warship in the world at this time, built at the new Woolwich Dockyard in England, is dedicated.
• Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns.
• King Charles I of England marries Catholic princess Henrietta Maria of France and Navarre, at Canterbury.
• Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.
• Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
• American Revolutionary War: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
• Lewis and Clark Expedition: Scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
• Twentieth opera of Giuseppe Verdi, Les vêpres siciliennes ("The Sicilian Vespers"), is premiered in Paris.
• The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.

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