Portsmouth’s Royal Charter: Medieval Significance (+ 9 more historical events on this day!)

A Daily Dose of History (02 May 2024) Today's historical events:

• King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter.
• William de Braose is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great.
• Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.
• John Knox returns from exile to Scotland to become the leader of the nascent Scottish Reformation.
• Mary, Queen of Scots, escapes from Loch Leven Castle.
• The King James Version of the Bible is published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker.
• Afonso Mendes, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Latin Patriarch of Ethiopia, arrives at Beilul from Goa.
• King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the Hudson's Bay Company to open up the fur trade in North America.
• Outbreak of the Peninsular War: The people of Madrid rise up in rebellion against French occupation. Francisco de Goya later memorializes this event in his painting The Second of May 1808.
• The Siege of Cuautla during the Mexican War of Independence ends with both sides claiming victory after Mexican rebels under José María Morelos y Pavón abandon the city after 72 days under siege by royalist Spanish troops under Félix María Calleja.

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