Charlemagne’s Council: Papal Acquittal & Coronation (+ 10 more historical events on this day!)

A Daily Dose of History (01 Dec 2024) Today's historical events:

• A council is convened in the Vatican, at which Charlemagne is to judge the accusations against Pope Leo III.
• Henry V of England enters Paris alongside his father-in-law King Charles VI of France.
• Courtiers Christopher Hatton and Thomas Heneage are knighted by Queen Elizabeth I of England.
• End of the Iberian Union: Portugal acclaims as King João IV of Portugal, ending 59 years of personal union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain and the end of the rule of the Philippine Dynasty.
• Diarist John Evelyn records skating on the frozen lake in St James's Park, London, watched by Charles II and Queen Catherine.
• The former slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøya in Norway.
• José Núñez de Cáceres wins the independence of the Dominican Republic from Spain and names the new territory the Republic of Spanish Haiti.
• Pedro I is crowned Emperor of Brazil.
• Argentine general Juan Lavalle makes a coup against governor Manuel Dorrego, beginning the Decembrist revolution.
• In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.
• Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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