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King Canute of the Saxons dies at age 40 and is buried in Winchester
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Pope Urban II calls christians together to fight the Muslims for the holy land
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The Bull 'Unam Sanctam', in which Pope Boniface VIII asserted his rights against King Phillip the Fair of France, is issued in 1302
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Philip IV dies in a hunting accident, and the French throne goes through chaos under his son, Louis X.
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Charles VI was born in 1368 in Paris
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Magellan set sail with a fleet of five ships and 250 sailors
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King James finds out about some Catholics' plot to kill him.
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16,000 people living in Venice die of the Black Plague
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Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary of the first blood transfusion, it was between two dogs.
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Howard Carter found the tomb of Egypt's most famous king, King Tut.
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Nazis attack the Jews, killing over 90 of them. This is also referred to as the "Night of the Broken Glass" because broken glass covered the bloody streets.
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FDR, the only President to be in office for more than 2 terms, won his fourth election, even with his declining heatlh and the world war going on.
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The UN ends the Apartheid, South Africa's racist segregation to its non-white majority.
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Christopher Colombus discovers tobacco smoking and took it with him back to Europe.
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Theodosius banned pagan worship, and the christians went on to destroy the temples.
