A Daily Dose of History (27 Jan 2025)

Today's historical events:

• Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire will reach its maximum extent.
• The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to become monks by Constantine VII, who becomes sole emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
• Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, marries Constance of Sicily.
• Dante Alighieri is condemned in absentia and exiled from Florence.
• Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan and Caliph of Islam in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II. Mustafa rules until his abdication in 1703.
• Spanish forces clash with indigenous Huilliches of southern Chile in the battle of Río Bueno.
• American Revolutionary War: Henry Knox's "noble train of artillery" arrives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
• A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent, approaching the Antarctic coast.
• Boshin War: The Battle of Toba-Fushimi begins, between forces of the Tokugawa shogunate and pro-Imperial factions; it will end in defeat for the shogunate, and is a pivotal point in the Meiji Restoration.

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