Unleashes its energy for the first time on 17 August 1152. This year, it will make its 49th return, unleashing already 67% of its energy which emanates Fusion (unify, annex, merge, integrate)
A few events were chosen reflecting the patterns of the fusing energy in the initial year of the eclipse and two returns after, as well as the three last returns prior to this year.
1152: Marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine with Henry of Anjou. This union fused kingdoms, territories and posessions redrawing the map of Europe. The kingdom of Aquitaine joined with the dominions of the Count of Anjou, Duke of Normandy and soon to be King of England, created the Angevine Empire, territory to be expanded from Scotland to the Pyrenees.
A fusion that would remain in history until our days. The kingdom of Elanor, Aquitaine, was a traditional and administrative region of France until 2016, and continues now as part of the New Aquitaine.
Eleanor herself, was Queen of France and England, mother of three kings, had five daughters and five sons, among them Richard Heart of Lion and John Lackland. Her biography, legends, myths, untold history, origins preserved under the veil, defiance to the monarchical and ecclesiastic patriarchy, and contempt against her, were not able to erase her influence to expand descendants fusing in history forever and ever. Some recognize her as the first feminist.
There is more. Two years after marrying with Henry of Anjou, they initiated the dynasty from the House of Plantagenet, which would last more than three hundred years, some mark 1399 and others 18 for its end. Anyway, the Plantagenet would remain in history as the French monarchs according to some and others the English monarchs that made England, before the Lancaster, York and Tudor.
Another detail previous to this fusion was the consent of the Papacy to annul Eleanor’s previous marriage with Louis VII of France adducing reasons of consanguinity (they were cousins to the fourth degree), a common factor for marriages of that epoch and even closer degrees. Certainly they knew of the power the new fusion would unleash.
1170: Henry of Anjou is involved in the assassination of his Chancellor and Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket, who later would be Saint Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London and ten Thomas à Becket, venerated by the Catholic Church as wells as the Anglican Communion. The conflict rose when Becket took side with the rights and privileges of the Church to appoint its authorities, before those of the royalty and resigned to his appointment as Chancellor. The king’s followers assassinated him and in history versions were written that although the king did not order his murder, his words could have promoted it. Versions. Anyway, little after his death he was canonized by Pope Alexander III.
1188: The Courts of León are created, which in history are recognized as the first European parliament. At the initiative of King Alfonso IX of León, these Courts promulgated laws to protect citizens, and their posessions, agains the abuse of royalty, clergy and the king himself. But at the same time, the royalty and the clergy were part of these Courts, although with the participation of representatives from towns. Finally, the decrees were stamped as the “Carta Magna Leonesa”, and coming decades and centuries would constitute the political framework to regulate ofthe kingdoms and countries in Europe: Cataluña 1218, Germany 1232, Castilla 1250, England 1265, Aragón 1274, Valencia 1283, Navarra 1300, France 1302.
1963: France and England show differences once more, this time on the Nassau Agreement, which was signed previously by England and United States leaving as obsolete the Skybolt aerial missiles and substituting them by missiles with submarine bases. The condition put forth by the United States to continue delivering these missiles was to have a base in the united Kingdom, but also that the United Kingdom would have to be part of a multilateral force within NATO.
On 4th January 1963, the United States offers to extend this accord to France, although Charles de Gaulle rejects the offer, while putting a veto to the presence of the United Kingdom in the common market, known then as the European Economic Community, as well as rejecting the creation of a nuclear multilateral force proposed by the United States. Germany accepted.
Years later, the United Kingdom would be member of the European Economic Community, which then became part of the European Union and set up the bases for it. France also. And both would be part of NATO. These events in 1963 also had repercussions for the next fifty years.
Another event, on 5th January 1963, Pope Paul VI (Catholic Church) and Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople (Orthodox Church) would have the first meeting since the Fifteenth Century, in Jerusalem. In spite of rejections to this meeting in both churches, it was able to rescind excommunications from 104 which marked the Great Schism of these churches. Although neither of them overcame the schism totally, until the next century relations between them did change.
1982: Pope John Paul II was the first to visit the United Kingdom and meet with Queen Elizabeth II, the Supreme Governor of the Anglican Church. In this trip, along with the Archbishop of Canterbury, they knelt to pray at the same spot where Thomas à Becket was assassinated.
2000: Year of the Great Jubilee called by the Catholic Church, as year of pardon, but was also celebrated besides the Vatican, in Rome, Israel and other cities of the world, where many secular governments accepted the celebration as an official act.
AOL (America Online Inc.) merges with Time Warner Inc. for U$ 182 billion, creating the a powerhouse with potential to reach each and every North American. In dominion of the music, news publishing, entertainment, cable and Internet industries, the fusion would hardly find rivals. This fusion marked the role of Internet as the leader of the new world economy, but also defining for the coming decades a digital world.
Sources: Ancient Origins, Wikipedia, Biographical Scketches of the Queens of England, nouvelle-aquitaine.fr