Emperor Leo I’s Legacy: Proclaiming Caesar Leo II (+ 12 more historical events on this day!)

A Daily Dose of History (25 Oct 2023) Today's historical events:

• Emperor Leo I acclaims his grandson Leo II as Caesar of the East Roman Empire.
• Seljuk Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum.
• Reconquista: After a siege of four months, crusader knights reconquer Lisbon.
• Hundred Years' War: Henry V of England, with his lightly armoured infantry and archers, defeats the heavily armoured French cavalry in the Battle of Agincourt.
• Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes the second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast.
• War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral Edward Hawke defeats the French at the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre.
• King George III succeeds to the British throne on the death of his grandfather George II.
• War of 1812: The American frigate, USS United States, commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate HMS Macedonian.
• Greek War of Independence: The First Siege of Missolonghi begins.
• The Battle of Balaclava takes place during the Crimean War. It is soon memorialized in verse as The Charge of the Light Brigade.
• The Toronto Stock Exchange is created.
• The Uspenski Cathedral, designed by Aleksey Gornostayev, is inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland.
• The Xinhai Revolution spreads to Guangzhou, where the Qing general Feng-shan is assassinated by the Chinese Assassination Corps.

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