June 22nd in History
June 22nd
217 BC Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom
168 BC Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat and capture Macedonian King Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian War.
The Treaty of Pipton was signed on 22nd June 1265 which confirmed an alliance between Simon de Montfort and Llywelyn ap Gruffudd after de Montfort's defeat of Henry III at the Battle of Lewes in 1264.
The treaty, signed at Pipton, Powys, gave for a permanent peace between the two and in exchange for the sum of 30,000 marks Llywelyn was acknowledged as the Prince of Wales. The alliance was cemented by Llywelyn's betrothal to de Montfort's only daughter Eleanor.
1377 10-year-old Richard of Bordeaux succeeds his grandfather Edward III as Richard II, King of England.
Owain Glyndwr's greatest victory.
On this day 1402 the 'Battle of Bryn Glas', which was part of the Glyndwr Rising, occurred at Pilleth near Knighton.
A Welsh army vastly outnumbered and poorly armed, but under the leadership of Owain Glyndwr, took on and defeated a far superior English army. The victory was Wales's greatest against the English and resulted in the collapse of English governance in Wales. For the English, it was a national humiliation on such a scale that within days, news had reached Rome and it led to the destabilisation of English politics for several years afterwards.
By 1401, Glyndwr's uprising was on the verge of collapse. Henry IV had toured north Wales, hanging suspected rebels and pillaging settlements. The two-tier society where Englishmen held privileges above Welshmen was re-emerging.
However, in early 1402, Glyndwr galvanised his support and the rebellion was reinvigorated, he had taken Ruthin and held Lord Grey, Henry’s trusted counselor for ransom, when in riposte, Henry raised an army of 2,000 men from Herefordshire and appointed Edmund Mortimer as commander and on June 22, 1402, when Glyndwr was near Knighton the two armies confronted each other. Although heavily outnumbered, Glyndwr gambled on dividing his army, knowing that the majority of his army including his archers held the higher ground, he hid a small detachment in a valley to the left. As Mortimer's army advanced up the slope, they came into range of the Welsh archers before they could return fire they were showered with Welsh arrows. At this time two crucial events turned the battle, firstly the concealed Welsh troops joined in the conflict and then some Welsh archers, who had infiltrated Mortimer's force, turned and fired into the English ranks.
The English army was routed and 600 of them killed. It is said that after the battle, Welsh women camp followers dismembered many the English victims in reprisal for their acts of brutality and rape in the preceding campaigns. Sir Edmund Mortimer was taken prisoner and as Henry IV made no effort to pay a ransom for him, he switched his allegiance to Glyndwr and married Owain's daughter Caitrin.
England and Scotland inked a 'Perpetual Peace' treaty in 1428. The irony? It collapsed under the weight of its own wishful naming within a decade..
https://historyng.com/events/the-treaty-of-perpetual-peace-between-england-and-scotland-1428
1535 Cardinal John Fisher is beheaded on Tower Hill, London, for refusing to acknowledge King Henry VIII as head of the Church of England.
1611 English explorer Henry Hudson, his son and seven others are set adrift in Hudson Bay by mutineers on his ship Discovery and never seen again.
1799 Britain and Russia decide to invade Batavian Republic.
1865 Acknowledged as 1st Class Cricket debut of Dr W. G. Grace; as a 16-year-old he is dismissed for 0 playing for Gentlemen of South v Players of South at Kennington Oval, London.
1981 John McEnroe's famous "You cannot be serious" rant in first-round win over Tom Gullikson at Wimbledon.
I was watching it live.
22 Jun 1973
David Bowie released the single 'Life On Mars', which peaked at No.3 on the UK chart. The track which was first released in 1971 on the album Hunky Dory, features guest piano work by Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman. The line "Look at those cavemen go" is a reference to the song "Alley Oop," a one-off hit in 1960 for American doo-wop band The Hollywood Argyles.
22 Jun 1971
The second Glastonbury Festival in England took place. Held over 5 days to coincide with the summer solstice, (the weather was, for a British 'summer' very good). Acts who appeared included: Melanie, Quintessence, David Bowie, The Edgar Broughton Band, Pink Fairies, Terry Reid - with David Lyndley and Linda Lewis, Gong, Hawkwind, Arthur Brown, Brinsley Schwarz, Fairport Convention, Family and Traffic. Over 7,000 fans attended the event.
217 BC Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom
168 BC Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat and capture Macedonian King Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian War.
The Treaty of Pipton was signed on 22nd June 1265 which confirmed an alliance between Simon de Montfort and Llywelyn ap Gruffudd after de Montfort's defeat of Henry III at the Battle of Lewes in 1264.
The treaty, signed at Pipton, Powys, gave for a permanent peace between the two and in exchange for the sum of 30,000 marks Llywelyn was acknowledged as the Prince of Wales. The alliance was cemented by Llywelyn's betrothal to de Montfort's only daughter Eleanor.
1377 10-year-old Richard of Bordeaux succeeds his grandfather Edward III as Richard II, King of England.
Owain Glyndwr's greatest victory.
On this day 1402 the 'Battle of Bryn Glas', which was part of the Glyndwr Rising, occurred at Pilleth near Knighton.
A Welsh army vastly outnumbered and poorly armed, but under the leadership of Owain Glyndwr, took on and defeated a far superior English army. The victory was Wales's greatest against the English and resulted in the collapse of English governance in Wales. For the English, it was a national humiliation on such a scale that within days, news had reached Rome and it led to the destabilisation of English politics for several years afterwards.
By 1401, Glyndwr's uprising was on the verge of collapse. Henry IV had toured north Wales, hanging suspected rebels and pillaging settlements. The two-tier society where Englishmen held privileges above Welshmen was re-emerging.
However, in early 1402, Glyndwr galvanised his support and the rebellion was reinvigorated, he had taken Ruthin and held Lord Grey, Henry’s trusted counselor for ransom, when in riposte, Henry raised an army of 2,000 men from Herefordshire and appointed Edmund Mortimer as commander and on June 22, 1402, when Glyndwr was near Knighton the two armies confronted each other. Although heavily outnumbered, Glyndwr gambled on dividing his army, knowing that the majority of his army including his archers held the higher ground, he hid a small detachment in a valley to the left. As Mortimer's army advanced up the slope, they came into range of the Welsh archers before they could return fire they were showered with Welsh arrows. At this time two crucial events turned the battle, firstly the concealed Welsh troops joined in the conflict and then some Welsh archers, who had infiltrated Mortimer's force, turned and fired into the English ranks.
The English army was routed and 600 of them killed. It is said that after the battle, Welsh women camp followers dismembered many the English victims in reprisal for their acts of brutality and rape in the preceding campaigns. Sir Edmund Mortimer was taken prisoner and as Henry IV made no effort to pay a ransom for him, he switched his allegiance to Glyndwr and married Owain's daughter Caitrin.
England and Scotland inked a 'Perpetual Peace' treaty in 1428. The irony? It collapsed under the weight of its own wishful naming within a decade..
https://historyng.com/events/the-treaty-of-perpetual-peace-between-england-and-scotland-1428
1535 Cardinal John Fisher is beheaded on Tower Hill, London, for refusing to acknowledge King Henry VIII as head of the Church of England.
1611 English explorer Henry Hudson, his son and seven others are set adrift in Hudson Bay by mutineers on his ship Discovery and never seen again.
1799 Britain and Russia decide to invade Batavian Republic.
1865 Acknowledged as 1st Class Cricket debut of Dr W. G. Grace; as a 16-year-old he is dismissed for 0 playing for Gentlemen of South v Players of South at Kennington Oval, London.
1981 John McEnroe's famous "You cannot be serious" rant in first-round win over Tom Gullikson at Wimbledon.
I was watching it live.
22 Jun 1973
David Bowie released the single 'Life On Mars', which peaked at No.3 on the UK chart. The track which was first released in 1971 on the album Hunky Dory, features guest piano work by Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman. The line "Look at those cavemen go" is a reference to the song "Alley Oop," a one-off hit in 1960 for American doo-wop band The Hollywood Argyles.
22 Jun 1971
The second Glastonbury Festival in England took place. Held over 5 days to coincide with the summer solstice, (the weather was, for a British 'summer' very good). Acts who appeared included: Melanie, Quintessence, David Bowie, The Edgar Broughton Band, Pink Fairies, Terry Reid - with David Lyndley and Linda Lewis, Gong, Hawkwind, Arthur Brown, Brinsley Schwarz, Fairport Convention, Family and Traffic. Over 7,000 fans attended the event.
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