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332 – Emperor Constantine the Great declares food will be distributed free for the citizens in Constantinople. 872 – Louis II of Italy is crowned for the second time Roman Emperor, aged 47. His first coronation was 28 years earlier, in 844, in the reign of his father Lothair I. 1565 – The Great Siege…

What horrific sight greeted English surgeon Charles Meryon one morning while travelling through the Syrian town of Latakia in 1813?