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3/30:

Birthday:
1135 Maimonides [Moses ben Maimon],
1222 Nichiren
1432 Mehmed II, Ottoman sultan who took Constantinople

Events:
1191 Election of Celestine III as Pope
1191 Philip II sails from Sicily for the Holy Land (3rd Crusade)
1191 Queen Eleanor of England and Berengaria arrive in Messina
1282 Sicilian Vespers begin,Palermo - Sicilians massacre 8,000 French
1292 Massacre of Berwick by Edward I, King of England
1327 Chartering of the Most Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths of England
1492 Jews exiled from Spain

3/31:

Events:
297 Diocletian's edict against the Manicheans
1146 St. Bernard calls for the 2nd Crusade at Vezelay, Burgundy
1152 Baldwin III, King of Jerusalem, exiles his mother, Melissande
1341 Ivan I Kalita, Grand Prince of Moscow
1492 Spanish & Sicilian Jews given 3 months to accept Christianity or
leave
1495 "Holy League" formed


4/1:

Death:
1132 St. Hugh of Grenoble
1204 Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France and England
1282 the IlKhan Abaqa, in Hamadan
1406 Robert II, King of Scotland

Events:
568 Lombards assembled to cross the Alps to Italy
1375 St. Catherine of Siena receives the Stigmata
1389 Treaty of Zurich
1401 Conway Castle taken by William and Rhys ap Twdr

4/2:

Birthday:
742 Emperor Charlemagne

Death:
1118 Baldwin I, King of Jerusalem; Baldwin II becomes King
1272 Richard, King of the Romans
1416 Ferdinand I, King of Aragon

Events:
999 Election of Pope Sylvester II
1191 Queen Eleanor of England sails for home from Messina
1250 The 7th Crusade surrenders to the Muslims


4/3:

Birthday:
1367 Birth of Henry IV, King of England

Death:
1253 St. Richard of Chitchester
1287 Pope Honorius IV

Events:
628 Kavadh, King of Persia, sues for peace with Byzantium
999 Gerbert of Aurillac elected 1st French Pope, Silvester II
1043 Edward the Confessor crowned
1192 Conrad of Montferrat assassinated in Tyre
1245 Birth of Philip III "the Bold," King of France
1279 Kublai Khan defeats the Sung Chinese in a battle at sea
1312 Pope Clement V dissolves the Knights Templar
1367 Battle of Nájera
1471 The Duke of Clarence changes sides againin the War of the Roses


4/4:

Birthday:
186 Caracalla, Emperor of Rome

Death:
397 St. Ambrose
636 St. Isidore of Seville
896 Pope Formosus
1284 Alfonso X, King of Castile-Leon
1292 Pope Nicolas IV
1305 Joan, Queen to King Philip "the Fair" of France
1406 Robert III, King of Scotland
1490 Mathias, King of Hungary

Events:
304 Deaths of Sts. Agape, Chionia, and Irene
527 Justinian crowned co-Emperor of the East
1081 Alexius Comnenus crowned emperor
1147 Moscow founded
1297 James II, King of Aragon, given Corsica & Sardinia by
the Pope