Roman Emperor’s Strategic Move: Appointing Son as Co-Augustus (+ 7 more historical events on this day!)

A Daily Dose of History (24 Aug 2023) Today's historical events:

• Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-Augustus at the age of eight by his father.
• The Visigoths under king Alaric I begin to pillage Rome.
• Sack of Thessalonica by the Normans.
• King John of England, signer of the first Magna Carta, marries Isabella of Angoulême in Angoulême Cathedral.
• Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague.
• The town and castle of Berwick upon Tweed is captured from Scotland by an English army.
• The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Syria at the Battle of Marj Dabiq.
• The first official English representative to India lands in Surat.

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