A Daily Dose of History (21 Mar 2025) Today's historical events:

• Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the Vivarium, by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas and Peranius.
• Emperor Heraclius returns the True Cross, one of the holiest Christian relics, to Jerusalem.
• Annulment of the marriage of King Louis VII of France and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine.
• On the day of his execution in Oxford, former archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer deviates from the scripted sermon by renouncing the recantations he has made and adds, "And as for the pope, I refuse him, as Christ's enemy, and Antichrist with all his false doctrine."
• A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins.
• With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII is crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché.
• The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis near Alexandria in Egypt.
• Code Napoléon is adopted as French civil law.
• Napoleonic Wars: Austrian forces repel French troops in the Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube.
• The Baháʼí calendar begins. This is the first day of the first year of the Baháʼí calendar. It is annually celebrated by members of the Baháʼí Faith as the Baháʼí New Year or Náw-Rúz.
• Alexander Stephens gives the Cornerstone Speech.
• Otto von Bismarck is appointed as the first Chancellor of the German Empire.

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