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23 Apr
The Establishment of the Order of the Garter
- April 23rd1348 (1344) -
What do the following people have in common – Edward, the Black Prince, Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, The Duke of Wellington, Sir Winston Churchill, Sir Robert Walpole,...
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12 Apr
The First Union Flag
- 12th April 1606 -
On the death of the last Tudor monarch, Elizabeth I, the nearest relative was James VI of Scotland. He was the great, great grandson of Henry VII through the marriage of Henry’s daughter, Margaret...
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29 Mar
The Battle of Towton
- Palm Sunday, 29th March 1461 -
Described as one of the bloodiest, largest and longest in our history the battle of Towton was one of the many battles fought between the Lancastrians and the Yorkists in the Wars of...
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21 Mar
The Execution of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer
- March 21st 1556 -
The first half of the sixteenth century saw a massive upheaval in the Church with the spread of Protestantism – the ideals of the German cleric Martin Luther. Nowhere was this...
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30 Jan
The Execution of Charles I - January 30th 1649
It was a bitterly cold Tuesday, 30th January. A scaffold had been erected in Whitehall. The platform had been covered with a black cloth. A block stood in the middle. This was the block on which...
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