Perkin Warbeck Pretender to the Throne
Perkin Warbeck, son of a poor burgess from Tournai, was hanged for trying to escape captivity on 23rd November 1499. ...
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Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species
Charles Darwin's book On the Origin of Species was first published on 24th November 1859 with the title On the ...
Nancy Astor First UK Female MP
Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor was born in 1879 in Virginia, United States. Her father was a former plantation owner who ...
William Caxton and the Printing Press
William Caxton was born in Kent around the year 1422. As a teenager he was apprenticed to Robert Lange, a ...
Bloody Mary Queen of England
Mary I, daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, has the misfortune of being remembered as 'Bloody Mary'. Mary ...
Hitler and the Munich Beer Hall Putsch
Following the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm and defeat in World War One, the government of the new German Weimar Republic ...
Catherine the Great
Catherine was born Sophia Augusta Frederika of Anhalt-Zerbst on April 21st 1729. Her father was a minor German prince. At ...
The Glorious Revolution
The Glorious Revolution is the name given to the taking over of the English throne in 1688 by William of ...
Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette was born Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna von Habsburg-Lothringen on 2nd November 1755. She was the fifteenth and youngest ...
Nicholas II the Last Russian Tsar
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Romanov was born on 18th May 1868. He was the first child of Alexander, son of Tsar Alexander ...