BIRTH OF CATHERINE THE GREAT Catherine the Great, was the longest-serving Russian monarch, reigning from 1762 to...
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Death of Anselm – Archbishop of Canterbury Saint Anselm of Canterbury was an Italian medieval philosopher, theologian,...
Death of Henry VII, England’s first Tudor King Henry VII is known for being the first Tudor...
Tomb of Henry VII & Elizabeth of York Henry VII and his wife Elizabeth of York, lie...
DEATH OF MARK TWAIN Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American...
Marie Antoinette leaves Vienna for Versailles On 21st April 1770, a procession passed by the imperial summer...
The Pendle Witches: How a Nine-Year-Old Girl Sentenced Her Family to Death On the 18 August 1612,...
Names in Medieval England The names of the English have changed. Before the invasion of William I...
PRINCESS HELENA The birth of Princess Helena Augusta Victoria at Buckingham Palace, London, on 25th May 1846,...
Edward comes from the Anglo-Saxon name Eadweard, which means wealth (Ead) and protector (Weard). England, or parts...
