On This Day: May 18th

Alonso de Ojeda sets sail from Cádiz on his voyage to what is now Venezuela.

During the Battle of Buyur Lake, General Lan Yu leads a Ming army forward to crush the Mongol hordes of Tögüs Temür, the Khan of Northern Yuan.

Bruges Matins, the nocturnal massacre of the French garrison in Bruges by members of the local Flemish militia.

Fall of Acre, the end of Crusader presence in the Holy Land.

The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Siege of Antioch.

The future Henry II of England marries Eleanor of Aquitaine. He would become king two years later, after the death of his cousin once removed King Stephen of England.

First Crusade: Around 800 Jews are massacred in Worms, Germany.

Pope Benedict VIII begins his papacy following the death of his predecessor Pope Sergius IV earlier that month.

Louis II of Italy is crowned for the second time as Holy Roman Emperor at Rome, at the age of 47. His first coronation was 28 years earlier, in 844, during the reign of his father Lothair I.

Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople.