Papal Power Struggle: Venice’s Excommunication (+ 10 more historical events on this day!)

A Daily Dose of History (27 Mar 2024) Today's historical events:

• Pope Clement V imposes excommunication and interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized on Ferrara, a papal fiefdom.
• Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
• Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reaches the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.
• Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.
• The first of four destructive Calabrian earthquakes strikes southern Italy. Measuring magnitude 6.8 and assigned a Mercalli intensity of XI, it kills 10,000-30,000 people.
• The Second Rockingham ministry assumes office in Great Britain and begins negotiations to end the American War of Independence.
• The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
• Peninsular War: A combined Franco-Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad Real.
• War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
• Texas Revolution: On the orders of General Antonio López de Santa Anna, the Mexican Army massacres 342 Texian Army POWs at Goliad, Texas.
• The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.

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