Sunday, June 9, 2013

History Trivia - Nero commits suicide

June 9,

411 BC Coup in Athens succeeded, forming a short-lived oligarchy.

68 The Roman emperor Nero was deposed and committed suicide, ending the Julian-Claudian imperial dynasty.

721 Odo of Aquitaine defeated the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.

1310 Duccio's Maestà Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, was unveiled and installed in the Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.

1549 Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, issued The Protestant Book of Common Prayer, sparking a Catholic peasant rebellion.

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