A Daily Dose of History (17 Jun 2024) Today's historical events:

• Pope Martin I is arrested and taken to Constantinople, due to his opposition to monothelitism.
• Geoffrey V of Anjou, known as Plantagenet, marries Matilda, daughter of Henry I, King of England, and widow of the Emperor Henry V.
• Following the Disputation of Paris, twenty-four carriage loads of Jewish religious manuscripts were burnt in Paris.
• The Kalmar Union is formed under the rule of Margaret I of Denmark.
• Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II (The Night Attack at Târgovişte), forcing him to retreat from Wallachia.
• Battle of Deptford Bridge: Forces under King Henry VII defeat troops led by Michael An Gof.
• Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England.
• The Dutch explorer Willem Barentsz discovers the Arctic archipelago of Spitsbergen.
• Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, will spend the next 17 years building her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal.
• Battle of Montes Claros: Portugal definitively secured independence from Spain in the last battle of the Portuguese Restoration War.
• French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reach the Mississippi River and become the first Europeans to make a detailed account of its course.
• Samuel Wallis, a British sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.

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