Reccared I: The Third Council of Toledo (+ 11 more historical events on this day!)
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This episode covers significant historical events that occurred on May 8, including the opening of the Third Council of Toledo by Reccared I.
A Daily Dose of History (08 May 2026) Today's historical events: Reccared I opens the Third Council of Toledo, marking the entry of Visigothic Spain into the Catholic Church. Treaty of Brétigny drafted between King Edward III of England and King John II of France (the Good). Julian of Norwich, a Christian mystic and anchoress, experiences the deathbed visions described in her Revelations of Divine Love. Joan of Arc lifts the Siege of Orléans, turning the tide of the Hundred Years' War. Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI. Hernando de Soto stops near present-day Walls, Mississippi, and sees the Mississippi River (then known by the Spanish as Río de Espíritu Santo, the name given to it by Alonso Álvarez de Pineda in 1519). A newly nationalized silver mine in Scotland at Hilderston, West Lothian is re-opened by Bevis Bulmer. William Coddington founds Newport, Rhode Island. The Battle of Peshawar where the Marathas defeated Timur Shah Abdali (Durrani) and Peshawar was captured and annexed into the Maratha Empire thus extending the Maratha Empire to its farthest distance away from Pune that it ever reached - over 2000 km - almost to the borders of Afghanistan. King Louis XVI of…
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