Fall of Melite: End of Byzantine Rule in Malta (+ 11 more historical events on this day!)

A Daily Dose of History (29 Aug 2024) Today's historical events:

• The city of Melite surrenders to an Aghlabid army following a siege, putting an end to Byzantine Malta.
• Mainz Cathedral suffers extensive damage from a fire, which destroys the building on the day of its inauguration.
• Pope Urban IV succeeds Pope Alexander IV, becoming the 182nd pope.
• Battle of Montecatini: The army of the Republic of Pisa, commanded by Uguccione della Faggiuola, wins a decisive victory against the joint forces of the Kingdom of Naples and the Republic of Florence despite being outnumbered.
• Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships.
• The Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between the kingdoms of France and England.
• Pope Innocent VIII succeeds Pope Sixtus IV.
• Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Kingdom of Portugal.
• The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade).
• Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia.
• The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.
• The city of Nuuk in Greenland is founded as the fort of Godt-Haab by the royal governor Claus Paarss.

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