📅 Today in HistoryMay 23

Joan of Arc is captured at the Siege of Compiègne by troops from the Burgundian faction.

Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy.

The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.

Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau defeat Jean de Ligne and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, opening the Eighty Years' War.

Official ratification of the Second Virginia Charter takes place.

The Third Defenestration of Prague precipitates the Thirty Years' War.

John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, defeats a French army under Marshal François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy at the Battle of Ramillies.

South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify the United States Constitution.

Battle of Famars during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.

Accordion patent granted to Cyrill Demian in Vienna, Austrian Empire.