History of the English Speaking Peoples - History of the English Speaking Peoples The History of the English Speaking Peoples was written by Winston Churchill. It is a four-volume history documenting English (as opposed to England's) history from the Norman Conquest to the beginning of World War I. The fourth volume, titled The Great Democracies, proceeds from the fall of Napoleon to 1914, with an extended treatment of the American Civil War..
Hook and Cod wars - was married to emperor Louis IV of Bavaria, and resided in Bavaria. She appointed their second son William (the later count William V of Holland) as ruward of Holland, which meant that he ruled as her representative. In 1350, the nobles of Holland asked Margaret to return to Holland. As a reaction, the Cod league was formed in May 23, 1350 by a number of supporters of William. On September 5 of the same year, the Hook league was formed. Soon afterward, these factions clashed, and a civil war began. Edward III, Margaret's brother in law, came to her aid, winning a naval engagement off Veere in 1351; a few weeks later the Hooks and their English allies were defeated by William and the Cods at Vlaardingen, an overthrow which ruined.
Hundred Years' War - Hundred Years' War The Hundred Years' War, a conflict between England and France, is generally considered to have lasted 116 years, beginning in 1337 and ending in 1453. The effective beginning of the war was the decision of King Edward III of England to make a claim on the throne of France following the death of King Charles IV of France in 1328. Edward's claim was through his mother, Isabella of France, Charles's sister. However, the French quoted the Salic law in order to bypass female heirs. Edward refused to do homage to Philip VI of France in 1337 and war began soon afterward. Edward's campaigns against the French knights were mostly successful. He was far less successful against the castles. He defeated the French at the Battle.
Hussite Wars - known as the Utraquists or Calixtines (from the Latin calix (the chalice), in Czech: kalich); while the more extreme Hussites soon became known as the Taborites, from the city of Tabor that became their centre. Under the influence of his brother Sigismund, king of the Romans, King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia endeavoured to stem the Hussite movement. A certain number of Hussites lead by Nicolas of Hus - no relation of John Hus - left Prague. They held meetings in various parts of Bohemia, particularly at Usti, near the spot where the town of Tabor was founded soon afterwards. At these meetings they violently denounced Sigismund, and the people everywhere prepared for war. In spite of the departure of many prominent Hussites the troubles at Prague continued. On 30 July 1419,.
Falklands War - Falklands War The Falklands War (in Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas, or the Malvinas War) was a conflict between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands between March and June 1982. Though surprised by an Argentinian attack on the islands, Britain eventually prevailed and the islands remained in British hands, in accordance with the wishes of the inhabitants. In Argentina, the conclusion of the war led to the downfall of the military junta and the restoration of a system of democracy. Background Ownership of the islands had long been disputed. In the 16th Century, the French were first to establish a claim by right of occupation, only to be expelled by Spain, which then ceded the Falklands to England. The islands remained unoccupied, however, and.
Karim Shah - kings) but used that of the vakil (regent). By 1760 Karim Khan had defeated all his rivals and controlled all of Iran except Khorasan, in the northeast, which was ruled by Shahrokh, the blind grandson of Nader Shah. During Karim Khan's rule Iran recovered from the devastation of 40 years of war. He made Shiraz his capital, constructing many fine buildings. Moreover, he reorganized the fiscal system of the kingdom, removing some of the heavy burdens of taxation from the agricultural classes. An active patron of the arts, he attracted many scholars and poets to his capital. Karim Khan also opened Iran to foreign influence by allowing the English East India Company to establish a trading post in Bushire, the Persian Gulf port (1763). In advancing his policy of developing trade,.
Kenelm Digby - success: on January 18 he arrived off Gibraltar and captured several Spanish and Flemish vessels. From February 5 toMarch 27 he remained at anchor off Algiers on account of the sickness of his men, and extracted a promise from the authorities of better treatment of the English ships. He seized a rich Dutch vessel near Majorca, and after other adventures gained a complete victory over the French and Venetian ships in the harbour of Iskanderun on the June 11. His successes, however, brought upon the English merchants the risk of reprisals, and he was urged to depart. He returned to become a naval administrator and later Governor of Trinity House. His wife died in 1633, prompting an eulogy by Ben Jonson, and Digby was stricken with grief, secluding himself in Gresham.
Kingston upon Hull - Riding of Yorkshire, but is a unitary authority. The council is today called Hull City Council, and refers to the city as Hull. Details Unusually for an English City, Hull has no cathedral. It does, however, have the Holy Trinity church, the largest parish church in England. Hull has an extensive museum and visitor quarter which includes Wilberforce House, Hull and East Riding Museum, The Ferens Gallery, The Maritime Museum, Streetlife and Transport Museum, The Spur Lightship, The Arctic Corsair and The Deep. It also features the University of Hull and a branch of the University of Lincoln. Hull is the home of the Queens Gardens and the Humber Bridge, the third-longest single-span suspension bridge in the world. The city has a football team playing at national league level, Hull City.
Kingston Lacy - the family seat of the Bankes family (until the 17th century, they had resided at Corfe Castle but this was destroyed in the English Civil War). The original building - designed by Sir Roger Pratt (c.1663) with interiors designed by Inigo Jones but executed by his heir John Webb - was extensively remodelled by Sir Charles Barry during the 19th century..
Knights of the Garter (1349-1699) - John of Aviz, King of Portugal, brother-in-law of King Henry IV (1400) Sir Thomas Erpyngham (app c.1401) Edmund Stafford, 5th Earl of Stafford, Lord High Constable (1402) Ralph Nevill, 1st Earl of Westmorland (1402) Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent (1403) Richard Grey, 4th Lord Grey of Codnor (app c.1403) William Ros, 7th Lord Ros of Hamlake (1403) Sir John Stanley (1404) Eric VII, King of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, son-in-law of King Henry IV (1404) John Lovell, 5th Lord Lovell of Tichmarsh (1405) Hugh Burnell, 2nd Lord Burnell (app c.1406) Edward Cherleton, 3rd Lord Cherleton of Powys (1408) Gilbert Talbot, 5th Lord Talbot, afterwards Lord Strange of Blackmere (app c.1408) Sir Robert Umfraville (1408) Sir John Cornwall (app c.1410) Henry Scrope, 3rd Lord Scrope of Masham (1409) Thomas Morley, 4th.
January 1 - Register, was published. 1801 - Legislative union of Kingdom of Great Britain and Kingdom of Ireland completed to form United Kingdom 1801 - Discovery of 1 Ceres, first known asteroid 1801 - USS Chesapeake takes first prize the French privateer La Jeune Creole 1804 - End of French rule in Haiti. 1808 - Importation of slaves into the United States is banned 1863 - Abraham Lincoln delivers the Emancipation Proclamation during the second year of the American Civil War. 1863 - The first claim under the Homestead Act is made for a farm in Nebraska 1874 - New York City annexes The Bronx 1880 - Construction of the Panama Canal begins 1883 - USS Enterprise (1874) decommissioned 1885 - The Montgolfier brothers cross the English Channel 1887 - Queen Victoria is.
January 3 - from the government of Mexico 1833 - Britain seizes control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. 1834 - The government of Mexico imprisons Stephen F. Austin in Mexico City 1840 - One of the Herald-Sun of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers The Port Phillip Herald is founded by George Cavanaugh. 1861 - American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States 1868 - The Japanese Meiji dynasty is restored and the Shogunate is abolished. 1888 - The 91 cm refracting telescope at Lick Observatory is used for the first time. It was the largest telescope in the world at the time. 1899 - The first known use of the word "automobile", in an editorial in the New York Times 1920 - Boston Red Sox owner Harry Frazee.
January 4 - - Battle of Reading - Ethelred of Wessex defeats Danish invasion army 1493 - Christopher Columbus leaves the New World, ending his first journey 1642 - English Civil War: King Charles I of England attacks Parliament 1717 - The Netherlands, England and France sign the Triple Alliance 1762 - England declares war on Spain and Naples 1847 - Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government 1850 - The first American ice-skating club is formed (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). 1884 - The Fabian Society is founded in London 1885 - The first successful appendectomy is performed (Dr. William Grant; patient was Mary Gartside). 1896 - Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state. 1936 - Billboard magazine publishes its first pop music charts 1944 - World War II: The.
January 23 - earthquake in history kills 830,000 people in Shanxi Province, China. 1570 - The assassination of regent James Stewart, Earl of Moray throws Scotland into civil war. 1571 - The Royal Exchange opens in London. 1579 - The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands. 1719 - The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire. 1789 - Georgetown College becomes the first Catholic college in the United States (Washington, DC). 1849 - Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her MD by the Medical Institute of Geneva, New York, thus becoming the United States' first woman doctor. 1851 - The flip of a coin determines whether a new city in Oregon is named after Boston, Massachusetts, or Portland, Maine, with Portland winning. 1907 - Charles Curtis from Kansas, becomes.
January 16 - 1547 - Ivan the Terrible becomes Tsar of Russia. 1556 - Philip II becomes King of Spain. 1572 - The Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England. 1581 - English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism. 1761 - British capture Pondicherry, India from the French. 1777 - Vermont declares its independence from New York. 1780 - American Revolution: Battle of Cape St. Vincent. 1795 - French occupy Utrecht, Netherlands. 1809 - Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of Corunna. 1847 - John C. Fremont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory. 1883 - The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil service, is passed. 1900 - The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German.
January 9 - to fly in a balloon in the United States. 1806 - Lord Horatio Nelson is buried in St. Paul's Cathedral. 1839 - The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process. 1861 - Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union, preceding the American Civil War. 1878 - Humbert I becomes King of Italy. 1894 - New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts. 1912 - Marines invade Honduras. 1923 - Juan de la Cierva makes first autogiro flight. 1929 - The Seeing Eye is established with the mission to train dogs to assist the blind (Nashville, Tennessee). 1937 - The first issue of Look magazine goes on sale in the United States. 1945 - The United States invades Luzon in the.
Jack London - a more rigorous method." Jack London did not learn of Chaney's putative paternity until adulthood. In 1897 he wrote to Chaney and received a letter in which Chaney stated flatly "I was never married to Flora Wellman," and that he was "impotent" during the period in which they lived together and "cannot be your father." Whether the marriage was, in fact, legalized is unknown. Most San Francisco civil records were destroyed in the 1906 earthquake. (For the same reason, it is not known with certainty what name appeared on his birth certificate). Stasz notes that in his memoirs Chaney refers to Jack London's mother Flora Wellman, as having been his "wife." Stasz also notes an advertisement in which Flora calls herself "Florence Wellman Chaney." Early life Jack London was essentially self-taught..
James Ussher - "Judgement of the Arch-Bishops and Bishops of Ireland" begins: The religion of the papists is superstitious and idolatrous; their faith and doctrine erroneous and heretical; their church ... apostatical; to give them therefore a toleration, or to consent that they may freely exercise their religion ... is a grievous sin. Despite this, Ussher was a relative moderate by the standards of the times, preferring to engage in debate rather than harsh repression. He was widely respected as a learned scholar, albeit a fairly mediocre administrator of his Church. Ussher spent the last sixteen years of his life in England. He travelled there in 1640 but was unable to return home as a consequence of the Irish rising (1641), the English Civil War (1642) and Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth regime. Though courted by.
Jamestown, Virginia - and the 1607 settlement there were named for King James I of England who had recently come to the throne then. That Jamestown Settlement was the first permanent English colony in the New World. Jamestown was founded in 1607 by the London Virginia Company. Three ships, the Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery arrived at Jamestown on May 14, and their crews of 104 men and boys began the first permanent English settlement in North America. Upon landing, secret orders from the Virginia Company are opened which named John Smith as one of the councilors. Smith had been arrested on the voyage over by Admiral Christopher Newport for mutiny and scheduled to hang, but was freed upon the opening of the orders. Despite the fact that Jamestown Island is a.
James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde - whom he was treated with great favour. Writing to the king, Strafford described Ormonde as "young, but take it from me, a very staid head", and Ormonde became Strafford's chief friend and supporter. In 1640, during Strafford's absence, he was made commander-in-chief of the forces, and in August he was appointed lieutenant-general. On the outbreak of the rebellion in 1641 he rendered admirable service in the expedition to Naas, and in the march into the Pale in 1642. The lords justices, who were jealous of his power, recalled him after he had succeeded in relieving Drogheda. He received the public thanks of the English parliament and a jewel of the value of £620. On 15 April 1642 he won the battle of Kilrush against Lord Mountgarret. On 30 August 1642 he.
