Joan of Arc Born: The Peasant Who Saved France
She was a farmer's daughter from a village so small it barely appeared on maps. At thirteen, she said she heard voices — St. Michael, St. Catherine, St. Margaret — telling her to drive the English out of France. At seventeen, she somehow talked her way into an audience with the French crown prince and persuaded him to give her an army. She lifted the siege of Orleans in nine days. Captured a year later, tried by a church court for heresy and witchcraft, and burned at nineteen. The verdict was overturned 25 years after her death.
January 6, 1412
614 years ago
What Else Happened on January 6
Mit einer Ansprache an die Prätorianer eröffnet Kaiser Mark Aurel den römischen Feldzug im Ersten Markomannenkrieg.
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au palais de Ponthion, entrevue entre le roi franc Pépin le Bref et le pape Étienne II.
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Knud Ier le Grand est proclamé roi d'Angleterre.
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