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Today In History

Thursday - May 23rd
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      Famous People Born On This Day In History...

      1617,Elias Ashmole
      1848,Otto Lilienthal, German aviation pioneer who built gliders and other heavier-than-air flying machines based on bird flight. He inspired the Wright brothers by his many short unpowered flights, one of which ended in his death.
      1883,Douglas Fairbanks, first & greatest of Hollywood's swashbucklers.
      1910,Artie Shaw, band leader and husband.
      1933,Joan Collins, actress, BITCH!

      Events On This Day In History...

      0034,Holy Ghost descended
      0607,Death of St. Desiderius
      1059,Coronation of Philip I, King of France
      1116,Death of St. Ivo of Chartres
      1125,Death of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor
      1173,Death of St. Euphrosyme of Polotosk
      1192,The 3rd Cusade, and Richard I of England, recaptures Daron
      1285,Hospitalers surrender Marqab to Kala'un
      1373,Chaucer returns from Italy
      1430,Jeanne d'Arc captured by the Burgundians, who sell her to the
      1480,Turks arrive at Rhodes to besiege it
      1498,Death of Sarvonerola, by burning as an heretic
      1498,Vasco da Gama makes landfall at Calcutta, India
      1524,Death of Ismail, Shah of Persia
      1533,Henry VIII divorced Catherine of Aragon to marry Anne Boleyn, wife number two. The result was a break with the church in Rome despite Henry’s title as ‘Protector of the Faith’.
      1533,The Marriage of Henry VIII, King of England, to Catherine of
      1541,Jacques Cartier begins his third voyage to Canada
      1568,HEILIGER LEE (French defeat a German-Spanish army)
      1607,Christopher Newport and 140 surviors found Jamestown
      1611,Rudolf II abdicates the Crown of Bohemia
      1618,Defenestration of Hradschin (Beginning of 30 Yrs. War)
      1701,‘Captain’ William Kidd, Scottish privateer-turned-pirate, was hanged with three others at London’s Execution Docks.
      1706,Marlborough defeated the French at the Battle of Ramillies in Belgium, the British allied with the Dutch and Danish armies.
      1797,A cartoon by Gillray was published which gave the Bank of England its nickname, ‘The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street’.
      1873,The men who always get their man, The North West Mounted Police, were formed in Canada. In 1920, they became the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
      1887,The French crown jewels went on sale and raised six million francs.
      1898,First Phillipine Expeditionary Troops sail from San Francisco.
      1901,Gaetano Brecci, assassin of Italian King Humbert, committed suicide in a Rome prison.
      1908,Dirigible (a blimp) explodes over San Francisco Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die.
      1921,"Shuffle Along," the first black musical comedy, opens in New York City.
      1934,Bonnie (Parker) and Clyde (Baron), the young US outlaws, died in a hail of bullets on a lonely stretch of road in Louisiana where they were trapped by the police. During their four-year partnership, they killed at least 12 people as they robbed banks, petrol stations and diners.
      1948,The Empire Windrush sailed from Jamaica with the first West Indian immigrants to help with Britain’s severe manpower shortage following the Second World War.
      1953,The first "Cliff's Notes" appear in schools. (Thanks Cliff).
      1960,Adolf Eichmann, Nazi wanted for war atrocities, was found living in Argentina under the name Ricardo Klement by an Israeli kidnap squad. Assisted by the Argentine secret service, they flew him out on an El Al Britannia flight to Tel Aviv this night to face trial in Israel.
      1988,Possibly the first underwater marriage took place: two Danish tourists married on an underwater reef in Mauritius. Fleming Koch and Nina Tolgard used divers’ language to make their vows to a Mauritian civil servant conducting the service in a glass-bottomed boat. The couple’s diving instructor served as the underwater witness.


See the Timeline for Wales

 
55BCCaesar's first invasion of Britain
0ADNothing special happened
50
61Romans invade Wales, massacre Druids at Anglesey
100
127Hadrian's Wall is completed (for the first time)
150
166First church built at Glastonbury
200
208Hadrian's Wall is rebuilt (again)
250
300
304Martydom of St. Albans
350
400
410Roman legions withdrawn after Goths sack Rome
 
450First wave of Angle, Saxon and Jute invasions
500
518The British defeat the Saxons at Mount Badon
550The Anglian Kingdoms of East Anglia, Mercia and Northumbria are founded
600
607The first St. Paul's church is built in London
620Edwin, king of Northumbria subdues Isle of Man
627Sutton Hoo burial takes place
650
664Synod of Whitby
700
715Beowulf is composed
731Bede completes his history of the English
750
760Book of Kells is composed
779Offa of Mercia defeats the West Saxons at Benson
800Charlemagne is crowned Pope
850
878Alfred the Great defeats Guthrun, Danelaw is established
900
939Edmund I starts reign
950
991Danes defeat the English at Maldon
1000
1016King Cnut to throne
1050
 
1071William I defeats Hereward the Wake
1078Willliam I begins the Tower of London
1100Henry I to throne
1110Earliest known miracle play at Dunstable
1150
1154Henry II to throne
1162Thomas Becket becomes Archbishop of Canterbury
1189Richard I to throne
1190Jews massacred in York
1199King John to throne
1200
1215Magna Carta
1250
1265Edward kills de Montfort at Evesham
1271Marco Polo to China
1297William Wallace defeats Scots at Dunbar
1300
1307Edward II to throne
1314Robert defeats Edward at Bannockburn
1347Start of Hundred Years War
1350
1381Peasants Revolt
1390Chaucer complete Canterbury Tales
1400Owain Glyndwr begins war of independence in Wales
1413Henry V to throne
1431Joan of Arc is burned in Rome
1450
1453End of Hundred Years War
1453Gutenberg prints first bible
1455Wars of the Roses begins
1471Edward IV victory at Tewkesbury
1483Richard III to throne
 
1485Henry VII to throne
1492Columbus arrives at America...
1500
1509Henry VIII to throne
1517Martin Luther publishes 95 Theses
1519Magellan begins circumnavigation
1520Field of the Cloth of Gold
1529Reformation parliament meets
1543Copernicus publishes sun-centred theory
1547Edward VI to throne
1549Book of Common Prayer issued
1550
1558Elizabeth I to throne
1566Tobacco introduced to England
1588Spanish Armada
1600East India Company is founded
 
1603James I to throne
1605Gunpowder plot
1611Authorised Bible published
1618Thirty Years War begins
1620Pilgrim Fathers sail
1625Charles I to throne
1642English Civil War starts
1650
1658Death of Cromwell
1660Charles II to throne
1665Great Plague
1700
1704Marlborough wins at Blenheim
 
1729Wesley founds Oxford Methodists
1746Jacobites defeated at Culloden
1750
1756Seven Years War starts
1769Watts Steam Engine, Wedgewood Etruria Works
1775American Revolution starts
1789French Revolution starts
1796Jenners cowpox vaccination tested
1799Income Tax levied (yep it's only 200 years old)
1800
1805Grand Junction canal completed
1800Nelson wins and dies at Trafalgar
1807Slave Trade abolished
1815Napoleon finally defeated at Waterloo
 
1837Victoria to throne
1845Irish famine created
1850
1853Crimean War starts
1861American Civil War starts
1879Zulu War starts
1881Boer War starts
1895National Trust formed
 
1900
1914First World War starts
1920Black and Tans are sent to Ireland
1928Women over 21 given the vote
1936Edward VIII to throne and abdication
1936George VI to throne
1939Second World War begins
1950Korean War begins
1952Elizabeth II to throne
1959Vietnam War begins
2000