On this day
AD 138: Hadrian, Roman Emperor who planned the great wall across northern Britain, died.
1099: Spanish warrior Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar – El Cid – died in Valencia, apparently of grief after defeat by the Moors.
1460: The Yorkists defeated the Lancastrians and captured Henry VI at the Battle of Northampton.
1553: Lady Jane Grey was
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