Roman Emperor Diocletian orders the persecution of Christians.
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Reccared I, Visigothic King of Hispania, converts to Catholicism from Arianism, leading to the conversion of the Visigothic nobility.
King Harald III of Denmark dies at the Battle of St. Alban's Priory.
Pope Paschal II crowns Henry V as Holy Roman Emperor.
Stephen, King of England, agrees to the Treaty of Winchester, naming Henry Plantagenet as his heir.
Battle of El-Babein: A Crusader force led by King Amalric of Jerusalem defeats the Fatimids.
William of Rubruck departs on his journey to the Mongol Empire.
The Siege of Stirling Castle in Scotland begins, part of the ongoing conflicts between England and Scotland.
The Peace Treaty of Stolbovo ends the Ingrian War between Sweden and Russia which had been fought between the Swedish Empire and the Russian Tsardom between 1610 and 1617. The treaty process was mediate it by England.
Louis XIV is crowned King of France.
German troops re-occupied the Rhineland, a de-militarized zone in Germany according to the Treaty of Versailles that bordered on France. This action was directly against the terms which Germany had accepted after the First World War.
Hitler argue that it was done in response to France and the USSR signing a treaty of friendship and mutual support, saying it was a hostile move against Germany, and the area of the Rhineland could in turn be used by France to invade Germany. More
U.S. troops capture the strategic bridge of Remagen in Germany during World War II.
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Civil rights marchers, including John Lewis and Martin Luther King Jr., are attacked by police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, in what becomes known as "Bloody Sunday." More
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