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29th December 1170: Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, murdered in front of the altar of Canterbury Cathedral

29th December 2021
Tagged as: Canterbury, England, Henry II, Murder, Politics, Religion, Thomas Becket

The murder of Thomas Becket was recorded in a later history by the monk Edward Grim who claimed that the fatal blow split Becket’s skull as he knelt in front of the altar.

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7th April 1141: Matilda declared the ‘Lady of England and Normandy’

7th April 2019
Tagged as: Angevin, England, France, Henry I, Henry II, Matilda, Medieval, Normandy

Matilda, the daughter of King Henry I of England, was declared the ‘Lady of England and Normandy’ in advance of a coronation that never took place.

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29th December 1170: Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, murdered in front of the altar of Canterbury Cathedral

7th April 1141: Matilda declared the ‘Lady of England and Normandy’

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

22nd March 1621: Hugo Grotius, the Dutch legal scholar, escapes imprisonment in Loevestein Castle concealed inside a book chest

21st March 1921: The New Economic Policy introduced to the USSR by Vladimir Lenin

20th March 1602: The Dutch East India Company established

19th March 1962: Bob Dylan, the American singer-songwriter, releases his eponymous debut album

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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