This Week In History – Page 2 – Cora Lee, Regency Romance Author

This Week In History: March 23-29

March 23, 2015January 4, 2015 Cora Lee

March 23, 1775: Patrick Henry delivers his famous “Give me Liberty, or give me Death!” speech at St. John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia.

March 24, 1707: The Acts of Union 1707 is signed, officially uniting the Kingdoms of England and Scotland to create the Kingdom of Great Britain.

March 25, 1811: Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.

March 26, 1812: An earthquake destroys Caracas, Venezuela.

March 27, 1854: The United Kingdom declares war on Russia, entering the Crimean War.

March 28, 1809: Heinrich Wilhelm Mattaus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man.

March 29, 1849: The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab.

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This Week In History: March 16-22

March 16, 2015January 4, 2015 Cora Lee

March 16, 1815: Prince Willem of the House of Orange-Nassau proclaims himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.

March 17, 1805: The Italian Republic (with Napoleon as president) becomes the Kingdom of Italy (with Napoleon as King).

March 18, 1834: Six farm laborers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.

March 19, 1812: The Spanish Constitution of 1812 is established by Spain’s first national sovereign assembly.

March 20, 1815: Napoleon enters Paris with 140,000 regular troops and approximately 200,000 volunteers, beginning his Hundred Days.

March 21, 1801: The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of the Nicopolis in Egypt.

March 22, 1809: Charles XIII succeeds Gustav IV Adolf to the Swedish throne.

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This Week In History: March 9-15

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March 9, 1796: Napoleon marries his first wife, Josephine de Beauharnais.

March 10, 1804: A formal ceremony is conducted in St. Louis, Missouri to transfer ownership of the Louisiana Territory from France to the US.

March 11, 1702: The Daily Courant, England’s first national daily newspaper, is published for the first time.

March 12, 1689: The Williamite-Jacobite War begins in Ireland.

March 13, 1781: William Herschel discovers Uranus.

March 14, 1794: Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.

March 15, 1820: Maine becomes the 23rd US State.

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This Week In History: March 2-8

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March 2, 1798: The Bank of England issues the first one- and two-pound banknotes.

March 3, 1875: The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Quebec.

March 4, 1675: John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England.

March 5, 1872: George Westinghouse patents the air brake.

March 6, 1834: York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto.

March 7, 1814: Napoleon wins the Battle of Craonne against General Blucher.

March 8, 1817: The New York Stock Exchange is founded.

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This Week In History: February 23-March 1

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February 23, 1848: The French Revolution of 1848 begins.

February 24, 1809: London’s Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute.

February 25, 1836: Samuel Colt is granted a US patent for the Colt revolver.

February 26, 1815: Napoleon Bonapart escapes from Elba.

February 27, 1812: Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords.

February 28, 1838: Robert Nelson proclaims the independence of Lower Canada (Quebec).

March 1, 1790: The first US census is authorized.

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This Week In History: February 16-22

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February 16, 1899: Knattspyrnufelag Reykjavikur, Iceland’s first football club, is founded.

February 17, 1753: February 17 is followed by March 1 in Sweden as the country moves from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar.

February 18, 1861: Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont, Savoy, and Sardinia assumes the title of King of Italy.

February 19, 1819: British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands.

February 20, 1472: Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland in lieu of a dowry for Margaret of Denmark.

February 21, 1804: The first self-propelled steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales.

February 22, 1797: Battle of Fishguard begins in Wales, the last successful invasion of the United Kingdom. The French invasion force surrendered two days later.

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This Week In History: February 9-15

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February 9, 1849: New Roman Republic established.

February 10, 1840: Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

February 11, 1808: Jesse Fell burns anthracite on an open grate as an experiment in heating homes with coal.

February 12, 1816: The oldest working opera house in Europe, the Teatro di San Carlo, is destroyed by fire.

February 13, 1867: Work begins on the covering of the Zenne, burying Brussels’ primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.

February 14, 1876: Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone.

February 15, 1804: The Serbian Revolution begins.

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This Week In History: February 2-8

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February 2, 1812: Russia establishes a fur trading colony at Fort Ross, California.

February 3, 1783: Spain recognizes United States independence.

February 4, 1794: The French legislature abolishes slavery throughout all territories of the French Republic.

February 5, 1810: The siege of Cadiz begins.

February 6, 1819: Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.

February 7, 1856: The colonial Tasmanian Parliament passes the second piece of legislation anywhere in the world providing for elections by secret ballot.

February 8, 1693: The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a charter by William III and Mary II.

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This Week In History: January 26-February 1

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January 26, 1788: The British First Fleet sails into Port Jackson to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement in Australia.

January 27, 1785: The University of Georgia is founded, becoming the first public university in the US.

January 28, 1813: Pride and Prejudice is first published in the UK.

January 29, 1856: Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross.

January 30, 1826: The Menai Suspension Bridge connecting the Isle of Anglesey to north coast of Wales is opened.

January 31, 1747: The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.

February 1, 1793: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.

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This Week In History: January 19-25

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January 19, 1812: After a ten day siege, the Duke of Wellington orders British soldiers of the Light and Third divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo.

January 20, 1783: Great Britain signs a peace treaty with France and Spain, officially ending hostilities in the American War of Independence.

January 21, 1793: Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine.

January 22, 1506: The first contingent of Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican.

January 23, 1849: Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded an M.D., becoming the first female doctor in the US.

January 24, 1857: The University of Calcutta is founded.

January 25, 1858: Queen Victoria’s daughter Victoria marries Friedrich of Prussia, using Felix Mendelssohn’s The Wedding March as part of the ceremony.