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887 – Berengar I is elected king of Italy at Pavia by the lords of Lombardy and enthroned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy. 1799 – Four thousand people attend George Washington’s funeral where Henry Lee III declares him as “first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen.” 1948…
336 – First recorded Christmas celebration in Rome. 498 – French King Clovis baptises himself. 1261 – Eleven-year-old John IV Laskaris of the restored Eastern Roman Empire is deposed and blinded by orders of his co-ruler Michael VIII Palaiologos. 1831 – The Great Jamaican Slave Revolt begins. Around 20% of Jamaica’s slaves vent their fury…
