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FEBRUARY 12 - IN THE HISTORY Calender Search
 
1502
Isabella issued a royal order giving all remaining Moors in the realms of Castile the choice between baptism and expulsion.
1502
Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer, departed on a second trip to India with 20 well-armed ships.
1486
In Toledo, Spain, some 750 lapsed Christians were paraded through the streets of Toledo from the Church of San Pedro Martir to the cathedral in order to be reconciled to the Christian faith. In the Auto Da Fe at Toledo the Jews were forced to recant, fined 1/5 of their property and permanently forbidden to wear decent clothes or hold office.
1294
Kublai Khan, the conqueror of Asia, died at the age of 80.
1242
Henry VII, Roman Catholic German king (1220-35), committed suicide.
1111
Henry V of Germany presented himself to Pope Paschal II for coronation along with treaty terms that commanded the clergy to restore fiefs of the crown to Henry. The pope refused to crown and Henry left Rome taking the pope with him. When Paschal was unable to get help, he confirmed Henry’s right of investiture and crowned him.
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