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Henry III presides at Synod of Sutri

King John murders Arthur I prince of Brittany

Knights-errant

Charlemagne crosses the Alps

Battle of Roncesvalles

Spartans defeat Athenians at Syracuse during Peloponnesian Wars

Attila fights Visigoths at Battle of the Catalaunian Plains AKA

Damocles

Praetorians hail Claudius as Emperor

Magyars arrive in Hungary

Mehmet II besieges Constantinople in 1453

Battle of Tours AKA Poitiers

Ptolemy II Philadelphus plans Alexandrian Library

Battle of Marathon

Charles Martel at Battle of Tours AKA Poitiers

Cleisthenes on chariot at Olympic Games

Solon dictates laws

Ancient Olympic Games

View of Athens and the Long Walls from Piraeus

Belisarius leaves Rome

Ali ibn Abu Talib captures Ayesha

Mecca in a 19th-century drawing

Naval battle at Syracuse during Peloponnesian Wars

Parthian warriors

Roman makes sacrifice to household gods

Alcibiades returns to Athens during Peloponnesian Wars

Ancient Corinth

Murder of Grimoald

Funeral of Visigoth king Alaric

Isthmian games

Trojan War heroes

Tombs of the Caliphs in Damascus, Syria