Saturday, November 21, 2009

21 November 1272

21 November 1272 – Following Henry III of England's death on November 16, his son Prince Edward becomes King of England.

Read about it in Sharon kay Penman's Falls the Shadow.



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Friday, November 20, 2009

20 November 1407

20 November 1407 – A truce between John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy and Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans is agreed under the auspices of John, Duke of Berry. Orléans would be assassinated three days later by Burgundy.




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Thursday, November 19, 2009

19 November 1096

19 November 1095 – The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land, begins.




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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

18 November 1477

18 November 1477 – William Caxton produces Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres, the first book printed on a printing press in England.



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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

17 November 1558

17 November 1558 – Death of Mary I of England (b. 1516)




Follow the continuing stories of nan Hawthorne's An Involuntary King: A Tale of Anglo Saxon England to learn more about how the novel came to be and some of the side stories, authorized or not, that never made it into the book!


An Involuntary King: The Stories

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