Monday, July 17, 2006
On this day
1203-The Fourth Crusade captures Constantinople by assault; the Byzantine emperor Alexius III Angelus flees from his capital into exile.
1815-Napoleonic wars,in France Napoleon surrenders at Rochefort, Charente-Maritime to British forces
1917- King George V of the United Kingdom issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British royal family will bear the surname Windsor
1918-By order of the Bolshevik Party and carried out by Cheka Tsar Nicholas II his immediate family, and retainers were murdered at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
1815-Napoleonic wars,in France Napoleon surrenders at Rochefort, Charente-Maritime to British forces
1917- King George V of the United Kingdom issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British royal family will bear the surname Windsor
1918-By order of the Bolshevik Party and carried out by Cheka Tsar Nicholas II his immediate family, and retainers were murdered at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
