OTD

19 May: St Dunstan
22 April 1915: the Second Battle of Ypres
25 April: ANZAC Day
April 4 -: a miscellany...
March 2 1882: Attempted assassination of Queen Victoria
March 3 1284: The Statute of Rhuddlan
March 4 1681: Pennsylvania
March 5 1496: King Henry VII of England issued letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to explore unknown lands.
March 6 1836: Battle of the Alamo
March 7 1876: Alexander Graham Bell
March 8 1702: Quenn Anne becomes Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland.
March 9 1796: marriage of Napoleon and Josephine
March 10 1629: Charles I dissolves the Parliament of England, beginning the Eleven Years' Tyranny.
March 11 1702: The Daily Courant, was the first British daily newspaper.
March 12 1626: John Aubrey FRS
March 13 1764: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
March 14 1794: a patent was granted to Eli Whitney in the US for his cotton gin
March 15 1917: abdication of Nicholas II or Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov, the last Tsar of Russia.
March 16 1750: Caroline Lucretia Herschel, born
March 17 1829: Final performance by clown Joseph Grimaldi
March 18 1834: sentencing of the Tolpuddle Martyrs
March 19 1649: the House of Lords was abolished by an Act of Parliament.
March 20 1852: Uncle Tom's Cabin" was published in book form.
March 21 1871: Henry Morton Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa.
March 22, 1963: The Beatles first album, Please Please Me, is released.
March 23 1540: Abbot Robert Fuller, surrendered Waltham Abbey and its estates to Henry VIII's commissioners
March 24 1603: King James becomes King of Scotland and England
March 25 1306: Robert the Bruce crowned King of Scotland.
March 26 0685: Cuthbert becomes Bishop of Lindisfarne
March 27, 1915: Typhoid Mary quarantined for the second time.
March 28 1916: 1st performance of 'Jerusalem'
March 29 1461: The Battle of Towton
March 30 1840: George Bryan "Beau" Brummell died.
March 31 1889: formal opening of the Eiffel tower.
April 1 1780: Nothing happened
April 1 1977: San Serrife
April 2 1801: The battle of Copenhagen.
April 3 1043: Coronation of Edward the Confessor.
April 5 1588: Birth of Thomas Hobbes
April 6 1199: Death of Richard I - Richard the Lionheart
April 7 1739: exceution of Richard Turpin, Highwayman.
April 8, 1838: the maiden voyage of Brunel's 'Great Western' Steamship.
April 9 1483: The Princes in the Tower
April 10 1816: In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
April 11 1951: return of the Stone of Scone, (Stone of Destiny)
April 12, 1955: Polio vaccine declared safe and effective.
April 13 1598: The Edict of Nantes is signed.
April 13 1936: Luton Town footballer Joe Payne, aged 22, set a goal scoring record
April 14 1856: Assassination of Lincoln
April 15 1053: Godwin, Earl of Wessex died
April 16 1746: Battle of Culloden
April 17 1521: Luther appears before the Diet of Worms.
April 18 1906: San Francisco earthquake
April 19, 1943: Bicycle Day"
April 20 1841: Murders in the Rue Morgue" published.
April 21 1816: birth of Charlotte Bronte.
April 24 1932: Mass trespass on Kinder Scout
April 26 1937: destruction of Guernica.
April 27 1749: First perfromance of Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks.
April 28 1721: Death of Mary Read, pirate...
April 29 1852: 1st edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus was published ( promulgated, propagated, circulated, disseminated...)
April 30 1963: Bristol Bus Boycott
May 1 1840: The first Penny Black stamps go on sale.
May 2 1611: King James Bible is published.
May 3 1926: General Stike begins
May 4 1471: Battle of Tewkesbury, the last battle in the Wars of the Roses.
May 5 1925: John Thomas Scopes was charged with teaching evolution in a US School.
May 6 1937: Hindenburg
May 6 1937: Battle of Edington
May 7 1697: As an ex-librarian this one appeals to me...
May 8 1450: Jack Cades rebellion
May 9 1671: Thomas Blood steals the Crown Jewels
May 10 1857: Indian Mutiny, also called Sepoy Mutiny.
May 11 1800: Lamarck gives a lecture outlining his theories of evolution
May 12 1812: An extra light-hearted something for today...
May 12 1820: Florence Nighingale was born and it is therefore also "International Nurses Day".
May 13 1787: sailing of the 'First Fleet'
May 14 1796: first sucessful vaccination.
May 15 1536: Anne Boleyn convicted of High Treason.
May 16 1770: Marie Antoinette marries Louis-Auguste, who later becomes king of France.
May 17 1649: execution of the leaders of the "Banbury Mutineers" (Levellers).
May 18 1152: Marriage of Eleanor of Acquitaine to the future Henry II.
May 19 1662: Act of Uniformity
May 20 1217: second battle of Lincoln
May 21 1662: Marriage of Catherine de Braganza to King Charles II.
May 22 1570: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' regarded as the first true atlas is published.
May 23 1701: execution of Captain Kidd, pirate.
May 24 1844: what hath God wrought"
May 25 1659: Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.
May 26 0946: Death of Edmund I
May 27 1873: Priam's Treasure' and the city of Troy
May 28 1738: birth of Joseph-Ignace Guillotin
May 29 1453: The Fall of Constantinople
May 30 1431: Death of Joan of Arc
May 31 2020: Rush Sunday civic service at St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol
June 1 1495: Earliest recorded Whisky
June 2 0455: Sack of Rome
June 3 1739: the first Methodist chapel.
June 4 2020: Death of Emily Davison, Suffragette
June 5 1718: birth of Thomas Chippendale.
June 6 1844: Graham's Factory Act'
June 7 1520: Field of the Cloth of Gold
June 8 0793: first Viking raid on Lidisfarne.
June 8 2020: Festival of Thomas Ken
June 9 1781: Birth of George Stephenson
June 10 1916: Arab Revolt and Lawrence of Arabia
June 11 1936: The first International Surrealist Exhibition in London.
June 12 1942: Anne Frank starts her diary..
June 13 1652: begiining of the Quaker movement.
June 14 1645: Battle of Naseby
June 15 1215: King John sets his seal to the Magne Carta
June 16 1968: First Woman Astronaut
June 17 1631: death of Mumtaz Mahai and beginning of the Taj Mahal.
June 18 1815: Battle of Waterloo
June 19 1865: Slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom.
June 20 1756: the Black Hole of Calcutta.
June 21 1900: the Boxer Rebellion
June 22 1633: and yet it moves...'
June 23 1775: The first Thames Regatta
June 24 1314: victory at Bannockburn
June 25 1876: Custer's Last Stand
June 26 1284: 130 children go missing from Hamelin...
June 27 1899: A breathles hush...
June 28 1838: coronation of Queen Victoria
June 29 1613: the Globe Theatre goes up in flames...
June 30 1908: the largest impact event on Earth in human recorded history,
July 1 1690: Battle of the Boyne
July 2 1839: the Amistad Mutiny
July 3 1035: William becomes duke of Normandy
July 4 1187: Battle of the Horns of Hattin
July 5 1610: John Guy, sets sail from Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland.
July 6 1349: Papal bull of Pope Clement VI issued during the Black Death stating Jews not to blame and urging their protection
July 7 1928: bit of a slow news day today...
July 8 1497: Vasco da Gama sets sail for the Indies
July 9 1540: Anne of Cleeves marriage anulled.
July 10 0121: The great fire of Southwark
July 11 1754: the original expleteive deleted...
July 12 0927: King Ãthelstan becomes overlord of the north of England.
July 13 1955: Death of Ruth Ellis
July 14 1789: storming of the Bastille
July 15 2020: St. Swithin’s Day,
July 16 1945: first nuclear explosion
July 17 1717: first performance of Handel's Water Music
July 18 1290: Edict of Expulsion
July 19 1964: what did Nero do while Rome burned?
July 20 2020: The Eagle lands...
July 21 1403: Battle of Shrewsbury
July 22 1209: Massacre at Beziers
July 22 1844: Revd. Spooner
July 23 1962: Telstar and the first transatlantic television
July 24 1851: window tax abolished
July 25 1909: First Airplane Flight Across the English Channel
July 26 1745: first Womens Cricket Match
July 27 1214: Battle of Bouvines
July 28 1939: discovery of the Sutton Hoo helment
July 29 1588: Battle of Gravelines, the last action of the Spanish Armada
July 30 1419: first Defenestration of Prague.
July 31 1702: Daniel Defoe pilloried (with flowers?)
August 1 1714: Accession of George 1
August 2 1100: Death of William Rufus
August 2 1784: first mail coach from Bristol to London
August 3 1460: James II of Scotland was killed by an exploding cannon.
August 3 1545: raising of the Mary Rose - the first attempt...
August 4 1265: The Battle of Evesham
August 4 1870: 150th Anniversary of formation of the British Red Cross
August 5 1100: Henry 1 crowned
August 5 1620: the Mayflower departed from Southampton on its first attempt to reach North America.
August 6 1497: John Cabot arrived back in Bristol having discovered America (or at least Newfoundland).
August 6 1890: first use of the electric chair.
August 7 1789: William Edwards died. He was a Welsh Methodist minister who also practised as a stonemason, architect and bridge engineer.
August 7 1947: Kon-Tiki crosses the Pacific Ocean
August 8 1834: The new poor law.
August 9 1593: The compleat Angler
August 10 1675: Royal Observatory Greenwich commissioned.
August 11 1897: five go on a historical walk... :)
August 12 1865: first antiseptic surgery
August 13 1826: Inventor of the stethoscope
August 14 1880: completion of Cologne Cathedral
August 15 1969: Woodstock opens
August 16 1819: Peterloo Massacre
August 17 2020: first claim registered on the Klondike
August 18 1612: Pendle Witch trials
August 19 1274: Coronation of Edward I
August 20 0480: BC - The 300
August 21 1831: Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion
August 22 1485: A horse, A horse, my kingdom for a horse!"
August 23 1914: Battle of Mons and Angels on the Battlefield
August 24 1979: AD - eruption of Vesuvius
August 25 1875: The first person to swim across the English Channel
August 26 1346: Battle of Crecy
August 27 1172: Bonus content for today...hands up anyone who knew about the following...
August 27 1883: Krakatoa Eruption
August 28 1833: Slavery Abolition Act
August 29 1533: end of the Inca Empire
August 30 1716: baptism of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown
August 31 1688: Death of John Bunyan
September 1 1951: UKs first Supermarket.
September 2 1752: those 11 days went quickly...
September 3 2020: coronation of Richard the Lionheart
September 4 1939: first Citzens Advice Bureau opened
September 5 1885: first train through the Severn Tunnel
September 6 1651: The Royal Oak
September 6 1838: Grace Darling
September 8 1504: unveiling of a masterpiece
September 9 1513: battle of Flodden Field
September 10 1891: Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay
September 11 1649: Siege of Drogheda
September 12 1940: cave paintings
September 13 1902: first UK conviction using fingerpint evidence.
September 14 1759: A journey through Europe
September 15 1830: London and Manchester Railway
September 16 1400: Last native-born Prince of Wales
September 17 1916: first victim of the Red Baron
September 18 1709: Birth of Samuel Johnson.
September 19 1991: give or take 5000 years) creation
September 20 1258: Consecration of Salisbory Cathedral.
September 21 1915: man buys stones at local auction (Stonehenge)
September 22 1735: first tennant of 10 Downing Street
September 23 1846: discovery of Neptune
September 24 1957: first BBC schools broadcast
September 25 1066: battle of Stamford Bridge
September 26 1955: tea time is saved...
September 27 1822: The translation of the Rosetta Stone
September 28 1865: the first qualified woman physician in Britain.
September 29 1399: Richard II deposed
September 30 1967: And, good morning everyone. Welcome to the exciting new sound..."
October 1 1861: The first 'domestic goddess' ?
October 2 1925: Josephine Baker
October 3 1283: death of Dafydd ap Gruffydd
October 4 1821: death of John Rennie
October 5 1936: start of the Jarrow Crusade
October 6 0891: election of Pope Formosus
October 7 1571: Battle of Lepanto
October 8 1200: coronation of Isabella, Queen Consort of England.
October 9 1779: the first Luddite riot, allegedly
October 11 1899: start of the Boer War
October 12 1845: death of Eliabeth Fry
October 13 1307: arrest of the Templars
October 14 1884: George Eastman patents photgraphic roll film
October 15 1783: first human flight in a balloon
October 16 1834: Parliament burns down
October 17 1346: Battle of Neville's Cross
October 18 1674: birth of Beau Nash
October 19 1812: Napoleans retreat from Moscow
October 20 1890: Death of Richard Francis Burton
October 22 1707: Scilly Naval Disaster
October 23 4004: The Creation (BC)
October 24 1945: United Nations Charter
October 25 1415: St Crispins Day
October 26 1640: Treaty of Ripon
October 28 1726: 'Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World'
October 29 1618: Death of Raleigh
October 30 1485: Coronation of Henry VII
October 31 1888: Dunlop's tires
November 1 1917: Micahelangelo's Sistine Chapel
November 2 1917: Balfour declaration
November 3 1534: First Act of Supremacy
November 4 1839: Newport Rising
November 5 1605: gunpowder, treason and plot.
November 7 1687: birth of William Stukeley
November 8 1602: Opening of the Bodleian Library
November 9 1867: end of the Tokugawa shogunate
November 10 1960: Lady Chatterly available to everyone…
November 11 1880: Death of Ned Kelly
November 12 1911: birth of Rev Dr Chad Varah, Founder of the Samaritans.
November 13 1002: St Brice's Day Massacre
November 14 1940: Coventry Blitz
November 16 1793: drownings at Nantes.
November 17 1880: First Degrees awarded to Women. in 1870
November 18 1307: William Tell
November 19 1863: Gettysburg Address
November 20 0869: death of Edmund the Martyr
November 21 1953: end of the 'Piltdown Man'
November 22 1819: Cutty Sark launched
November 23 1499: death of Perkin Warbeck
November 24 1715: Frost Fairs on the Thames…
November 25 1120: The loss of the White Ship
November 27 1809: Berners Street hoax
November 27 1914: Women's Police force
November 28 1290: Death of Ealeanor of Castille
November 29 1781: Zong Massacre
November 30 1016: Canute becomes King of England

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