A Daily Dose of History (18 Jan 2025) Today's historical events:

• Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He dies ten months later.
• Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
• Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son Emperor Qinzong.
• King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV, uniting the House of Lancaster and the House of York.
• Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session.
• Henry Morgan captures Panama.
• Frederick I crowns himself King of Prussia in Königsberg.
• James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands".
• The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from Great Britain to Australia arrive at Botany Bay.
• Jan Willem Janssens surrenders the Dutch Cape Colony to the British.

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