This Week In History – Page 3 – Cora Lee, Regency Romance Author

January 12, 1808: The organizational meeting that led to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society (a former Scottish learned society) is held in Edinburgh.

January 13, 1785: John Walter publishes the first issue of the Daily Universal Register, later renamed The Times.

January 14, 1814: Frederick VI of Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden in return for Pomerania in the Treaty of Kiel.

January 15, 1759: The British Museum opens.

January 16, 1809: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña.

January 17, 1773: Captain James Cook and his crew become the first Europeans to sale below the Antarctic Circle.

January 18, 1788: The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay.

This new year brings a new feature to And Then He Kissed Her! Welcome to This Week In History, a look each Monday at what was happening in the world before we inhabited it. We’ll focus mostly on the Georgian, Regency, Victorian eras in the UK and geographic areas related to it. Don’t be surprised to see the occasional event from the Middle Ages or World War I, though–events separated by large expanses of time can still affect each other. Plus, I adore history from many time periods 😀

January 6, 1781: The British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey.

January 7, 1785: Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England to Calais, France in a gas balloon.

January 8, 1815: Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British at the Battle of New Orleans.

January 9, 1806: Admiral Horatio Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred at St. Paul’s Cathedral.

January 10, 1810: Napoleon divorces his first wife, Josephine.

January 11, 1805: The Michigan Territory is created (yay!).

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