Field of the Cloth of Gold
June 7, 1520
Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France met in a valley in Picardy for eighteen days of jousting, feasting, and gilded tents. They wrestled one another in front of their courts, and Francis threw the English king. For all the pageantry, the alliance it sealed collapsed within two years.
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Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.