Saturday, October 20, 2012

History Trivia


October 20
 
480 BC The Greeks defeated the Persians in a naval battle at Salamis, an island in the Saronic Gulf near Athens. It marked the high-point of the second Persian invasion of Greece which had begun in 480 BC.
 
1097 First Crusaders arrived in Antioch. The first siege, by the crusaders against the Muslim city, lasted from October 21, 1097, to June 2, 1098.
 
1524 Thomas Linacre, physician and classical scholar, who founded the Royal College of Physicians in London died.
 
1632  Christopher Wren, East Knoyle, Wiltshire, England, astronomer/great architect (St. Paul's Cathedral), was born.
 
 

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