https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history daily 0.75 2026-02-28 https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/ohddebtrys6el57p01mto2uhbhfj0i monthly 0.5 2026-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/b33af7ea-2ce4-40c3-aa2e-c3ee77f26e77/King+Edward+I.jpg This week in history - March 30th - April 5th - Berwick upon Tweed was stormed by King Edward I 1296 – King Edward I ordered his troops to sack the city of Berwick upon Tweed killing over 7,000 men, women, and children during the course of several days. Edward was angry that Scotland had signed a treaty with France called the Auld Alliance. To show his rage he began by attacking Berwick upon Tweed, which at the time was an important and large city. Edward had given the city a chance to surrender before he attacked, but the officials of the city decided not to give up and took their chance at survival. I guess they regretted that decision pretty quickly when the soldiers stormed the city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/ea5addd8-29fc-4f47-b60a-37883a9fecc9/RAF+Badge.jpg This week in history - March 30th - April 5th - Formation of the RAF 1918 - The Royal Air Force (RAF) was formed by merging the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1cbfb5ef-2d1f-48d2-b264-e77a77e5e25f/Edward+the+Confessor.jpg This week in history - March 30th - April 5th - Edward the Confessor crowned King 1043 - Edward the Confessor was crowned King of England. He did not have any children to inherit the crown and it was his death in 1066 which led to the fight over the English throne between King Harold Godwinson and William, Duke of Normandy at the famous Battle of Hastings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/f76bb675-5cd6-46fd-99e7-688ab45ff418/Martin+Luther+King+Jr.jpg This week in history - March 30th - April 5th - Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr 1968 - Martin Luther King Jr was shot and killed. He was an American civil rights leader who highlighted and fought peacefully against the inequalities between blacks and whites in America. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/march-23rd-29th monthly 0.5 2026-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/bb12cfdf-59c9-473c-b09c-2addc04c4bb1/Queen+Elizabeth+I+Armada+Portrait.jpg This week in history - March 23rd - 29th - Death of Queen Elizabeth I 1603 - Queen Elizabeth I died bringing an end to the Tudor reign of England. Elizabeth had no children and left no heir to the throne, so King James VI of Scotland, her second cousin and closest relative, became King James I of England; with his rule, the reign of the Stuarts began. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/d188d578-ec09-426a-b939-402ead3a4314/Robert+the+Bruce.jpg This week in history - March 23rd - 29th - A new king for Scotland 1306 - Robert the Bruce became King Robert I of Scotland. At his lowest point he hid out in a cave after being defeated in battle; the story goes that he was about to give up when he saw a spider try and fail and try again to build a web. This inspired him to regroup his troops and march into battle once more with the now famous phrase, “If at first you don’t succeed, try and try again.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/8ce9d806-ad56-47ba-a47b-78fa92e62bc4/King+Richard+III.jpg This week in history - March 23rd - 29th - Burial fit for a king 2015 - King Richard III’s body was buried in Leicester Cathedral. The king had died at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485 and his body had lain in an unmarked grave that was found underneath a car park in Leicester. DNA testing proved the skeleton to be that of King Richard III and he was finally given a proper burial with all the grandeur fit for a king. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/f4f1ca20-83b6-445d-83ae-0f2f6603a6a4/King%2BCharles%2BI.jpg This week in history - March 23rd - 29th - Charles I became King of England 1625 - King Charles I became King of England when his father king James I died. Charles I is the only English monarch to have been tried and executed for treason. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/47e1aa9c-e282-43b4-a207-4e9c5c21b3f6/viking+longboats This week in history - March 23rd - 29th - Vikings attacked Paris 845 - Vikings attacked the city of Paris on Easter Sunday. They arrived in a fleet of about 120 ships with about 4,000 men and plundered and ransacked Paris until the king gave them 7,000lbs (about 3175kg) of silver to leave. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/dca2f893-962d-412a-8a03-ca831f1c97bf/Wars+of+Roses.jpg This week in history - March 23rd - 29th - Battle of Towton 1461 - The bloodiest battle ever to take place on British soil occurred during a snowstorm in freezing temperatures. Around 28,000 men were killed at the Battle of Towton during the Wars of the Roses. The Wars were battles between cousins over who was the rightful king of England; Richard Duke of York, and then his son Edward of York (whose emblem was the white rose) fought King Henry VI of Lancaster (whose emblem was a red rose). This particular battle was won by Edward who rode into York and removed the head of his dead father from the city gates. Richard had been defeated in a battle three months earlier and his head had been stuck on a spike as a warning to others. Things were definitely very messy back then. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/march-16th-22nd monthly 0.5 2026-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1615489479412-GKOI5PHM3JP2554L4IQI/King+Harold+I.jpg This week in history - March 16th - 22nd - King Harold ‘Harefoot’ died 1040 - King Harold I (Harold Harefoot) died. Harold seized the throne when his father King Cnut (Canute) died in 1035. His dad had left the crown to Harold’s half-brother Hardicanute, but because Hardicanute was busy fighting a war in Denmark with the king of Norway, Harold claimed the throne without any protest. Why the nickname Harefoot? Apparently he was a brilliant hunter who was as quick on his feet as a hare. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1615489521905-L77LHKT2ZPBA47ZEXKXY/King+Edward+the+Martyr.jpg This week in history - March 16th - 22nd - Murder of King Edward the Martyr 978 – King Edward the Martyr was murdered at Corfe Castle whilst visiting his stepmother and half-brother Ethelred. Whilst sitting on his horse at the castle gates waiting to be let into the castle grounds he was stabbed. With his foot still held tightly in the stirrup, his dying body was dragged along the ground as his horse bolted in fright. Edward was only 15 years old. There are rumours that his stepmother had a hand in his murder so that his half-brother Ethelred could become king. Would you agree with this rumour? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/6352db76-69c2-4e97-ba88-a23375d3687e/Alexei+Leonov.jpg This week in history - March 16th - 22nd - First ever space-walk 1965 - Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave a space capsule and ‘space-walk’. The Russian cosmonaut was outside of the spaceship for just over 12 minutes but had difficulty getting back inside because his spacesuit had ballooned so much from the different atmospheric pressure. Alexei said afterwards that he had perspired so much that the sweat sloshed around inside his suit. Imagine how much he must have sweated for it to slosh about! Yuk! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/c5752877-03a5-4097-9b6a-0c1583ec20a0/King+Henry+IV.jpg This week in history - March 16th - 22nd - Death of Henry IV 1413 - King Henry IV died leaving his son, also called Henry, to take the throne and become King Henry V. King Henry IV was said to have a head full of lice, spotty itchy skin and sore red eyes. People said he was being punished for overthrowing the previous king and executing an Archbishop. What do you think may have been causing his bad health? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/4c6ef942-5849-4cc8-a481-b153aea63d59/Sir+Walter+Raleigh.jpg This week in history - March 16th - 22nd - Sir Walter Raleigh was freed from the Tower 1616 - Sir Walter Raleigh was released from the Tower of London by King James I, where he had been imprisoned and sentenced to death for plotting against the King. James I wanted Raleigh to go on an expedition in search of gold so he was released from the Tower to make the king rich. On his return to England Raleigh was thrown back into the Tower of London and then executed two and a half years later. Would you have bothered to return to England if you knew you’d most likely be thrown back into prison? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/2d5f7ea3-cd3d-4053-9759-2a27b9aab0ba/King+Henry+V.jpg This week in history - March 16th - 22nd - Henry V declared King 1413 - Henry V was declared King of England. He was a great warrior king and is famous for leading his troops into battle and beating the French at the Battle of Agincourt. Did you know that when he was 17 years old an arrow struck his face and lodged itself 6 inches (15cm) into his skull, narrowly missing his brain and his spinal cord? He was on the battlefield alongside his father at the time and continued fighting to encourage the pother soldiers to keep battling. Special tongs were made and carefully inserted, all the way, into the wound and used to grip hold of the broken arrowhead and remove it. It took just three weeks for the wound to heal and close-up. He underwent all of this without the use of modern-day anaesthetics or antibiotics. Do you think you would be brave enough to go through that? https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/march-9th-15th monthly 0.5 2026-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/44fc0ca0-bbcf-4f1e-b3dc-9cdb2742edeb/Mary%2BQueen%2Bof%2BScots.jpg This week in history - March 9th - 15th - Queen of Scotland witnessed a gruesome murder 1566 - David Rizzio, the secretary to Mary Queen of Scots, was violently murdered. He was having dinner with the Queen and a small group of guests when he was dragged away and stabbed to death. He was stabbed over fifty times in front of the dinner party. Rumours at the time suggested that Lord Darnley, the queen’s husband, was jealous of Rizzio’s friendship with the queen and that Rizzio was the real father to Mary’s unborn child. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/f588b459-0fa9-4c22-b6d5-98f7c4b0ccbd/Alexander+Graham+Bell.jpg This week in history - March 9th - 15th - The first telephone call was made 1876 - Three days after patenting his new invention, Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call to his assistant in the next room. His famous words were, “Mr Watson, come here I want to see you.” Can you imagine a world without telephones? How would you contact your friends and family? Perhaps you would write to them or visit them more often, or do you think you’d try and invent a machine like a telephone? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/2be7fd90-fddb-4e02-b3a8-957e749b1d37/30mph.jpg This week in history - March 9th - 15th - A speed limit for British roads was introduced 1935 - Britain established a 30mph speed limit for towns and villages in a bid to reduce the number of deaths caused by dangerous driving. The year before this law was made, in 1934, there were over 2 million motor vehicles on Britain’s roads and 7,343 fatalities. In 2025 there were just over 42 million vehicles on the roads with less than 1,600 fatalities. There were however, over 28,000 serious injuries caused by vehicles. Do you think that introducing the speed limit worked? What do you think of the lower 20mph speed limit being introduced to many roads? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/a8490e9f-0d53-40f6-bbad-941ad2a500fc/Albert%2BEinstein.jpg This week in history - March 9th - 15th - Albert Einstein was born 1879 - Albert Einstein, the scientist, was born. He is best known for his ‘Theory of Relativity’ and the concept of mass energy equivalence which is expressed by the famous equation E=mc². If you can understand what all that means, can you please explain it in simple terms to me because I have no idea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/086ca98a-448f-40e8-be05-3d993de778ba/Julius+Caesar.jpg This week in history - March 9th - 15th - Julius Caesar was stabbed to death 44BCE - Julius Caesar, one of the most famous of all Roman Generals, was stabbed to death by the Roman Senate who had become wary of his powers and his desires to become King. Julius Caesar had been warned he would die in the middle of March by a seer who told him to ‘beware the Ides of March’. For Romans ‘the Ides’ meant the middle of the month, therefore ‘the Ides of March’ is around the 15th day of March. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/p4to6c8lppc7w0qtxlrp289trt5979 monthly 0.5 2026-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/2bbe3b61-a8be-4a3b-80ac-5b93636c1457/Queen+Victoria.jpg This week in history - March 2nd - 8th - Man tried to shoot Queen Victoria 1882 - An assassination attempt was made on the life of Queen Victoria whilst she was sitting in her carriage at Windsor Station. Roderick Maclean broke through the crowds and shot at the carriage. He was overpowered by the cheering onlookers and nearby police before he could take another shot at the queen. Queen Victoria remained calm and continued on her way to Windsor Castle, after all she thought it was just an explosion from an engine and not somebody trying to kill her. This was the eighth assassination attempt on her life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/f588b459-0fa9-4c22-b6d5-98f7c4b0ccbd/Alexander+Graham+Bell.jpg This week in history - March 2nd - 8th - Birth of Alexander Graham Bell 1847 - Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. His invention looked very different to today’s mobile phones, it was too large to carry in a pocket and was connected to other telephones by a network of wires. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/b64495a6-f6db-4417-83f6-05fd876294ae/King+Henry+II.jpg This week in history - March 2nd - 8th - King Henry II was born 1133 - King Henry II of England was born in France. He was the son of Empress Matilda, the daughter of King Henry I, and her second husband, Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou. (Anjou is a region in France.) Henry became King of England and began the Plantagenet Dynasty when his cousin King Stephen died. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/5cb540c3-be53-4ce0-8e97-9a58dc54ca87/Aspirin.jpg This week in history - March 2nd - 8th - Aspirin was trademarked 1899 - The painkiller Aspirin was trademarked by the company Bayer. Did you know that the painkiller was originally made from a chemical found in the bark of willow trees? Willow was used by ancient civilisations, such as the Egyptians, as an anti-inflammatory and pain reliever for general aches and pains. In Ancient Greece, Hippocrates gave willow leaf tea to women to relieve the pain of childbirth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1624109948169-Q0KDPI17WGOZNBEAAPDH/Telephone+1937.jpg This week in history - March 2nd - 8th - The telephone was patented 1876 - Four days after his 29th birthday, Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/19f88318-3748-4a4f-94a2-338f9bbfd3c1/Adolf+Hitler.jpg This week in history - March 2nd - 8th - Hitler began to provoke Europe 1936 - Hitler broke the Treaty of Versailles by sending over 20,000 troops into the demilitarised zone along the river Rhine. The zone had been established after World War I to prevent Germany from attacking France; by sending troops there he was beginning to defy the rest of Europe. This action was one of the early signs that World War II was brewing. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/february-23rd-march-1st monthly 0.5 2026-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1640525235216-7JJZB188FTLWFXD3D4NW/Samuel%2BPepys.jpg This week in history - February 23rd - March 1st - Samuel Pepys was born in London 1633 - Samuel Pepys, the famous diarist, was born near Fleet Street in London. In his diary, he recorded events such as the Great Fire of London and the Plague. Do you keep a diary? What do you think people would say if they found your diary 500 years from now? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/bb12cfdf-59c9-473c-b09c-2addc04c4bb1/Queen+Elizabeth+I+Armada+Portrait.jpg This week in history - February 23rd - March 1st - Queen Elizabeth I was excommunicated by the Pope 1570 - Following in the footsteps of her father King Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth I was also excommunicated by the Pope, although not for the same reasons. Pope Pius V issued the papal bull (public decree or order) entitled ‘Regnans in Excelsis’. This declared that Queen Elizabeth I was not part of the Catholic Church and deprived her of her reign over England. It also ordered all English men and women to disobey her laws or commandments and that if they continued to listen to her then they too would be excommunicated. The Pope’s actions caused the English Parliament to pass a law which made it illegal for anyone to bring a Papal Bull into England and another law which made it treasonous to state that Elizabeth I was not the true queen of England. What had Elizabeth I done to deserve this Papal Bull? She had made England a Protestant country again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1613654329468-OS8TBDET7VV35TZNILU0/radar.jpg This week in history - February 23rd - March 1st - Radar was demonstrated for the first time 1935 - Radar was first demonstrated by Robert Watson-Watt in Daventry, England. Radar is a detection system that uses radio waves to determine the distance, speed and angle of various objects. Radar stands for Radio Detection And Ranging. Can you imagine how an air traffic controller would guide all the aeroplanes to the airport without this invention? There would probably be a lot of air collisions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1633443653720-QZM28F3Y850VBIP9094L/Houses+of+Parliament.jpg This week in history - February 23rd - March 1st - Succession to the Crown discussed in Parliament 1998 - The House of Lords in England first discussed putting an end to 1,000 years of male precedence by allowing a monarch’s first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as any first-born son. This would mean that if a King or Queen had a daughter before a son, the girl could become queen before her younger brother became king. If the law was to stay the same then the brother would become King no matter how old he was. It took another 15 years for this to become law under the Succession to the Crown Act (2013). Can you imagine being the older sister to a younger prince, how would you feel if he got to become king over you? Or would you prefer to be in the background and not have to do all the duties that the monarch performs? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/54ec782b-8d19-4111-bc51-cfff3ff3d633/Daffodil.jpg This week in history - February 23rd - March 1st - Happy Saint David’s Day 589 - Saint David, the patron saint of Wales died. He is buried at Saint David’s cathedral on the Pembrokeshire coast in Wales. This day is now known as St David’s day and is celebrated by Welsh people all around the world. People wear daffodils or leeks to celebrate this day in Wales. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/2a9d1162-cbc8-4b2b-92be-cc901e8d214d/Tower+of+London.jpg This week in history - February 23rd - March 1st - Failed escape from the Tower 1244 - Gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr, the son of the Welsh leader Llywelyn the Great died whilst trying to escape from the Tower of London. He had made a makeshift rope out of sheets and blankets and was attempting to climb from his window. The rope broke and Gruffydd fell to his death. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/february-16th-22nd monthly 0.5 2026-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/687de92a-b51c-41f9-8be7-843f7c059cef/Tutankhamun.jpg This week in history - February 16th - 22nd - Tutankhamun’s tomb was discovered 1923 - English archaeologist, Howard Carter entered the sealed burial chamber of Tutankhamun. Carter had been searching for the tomb for six years when he spotted some hidden steps near to the entrance of another tomb. The steps led down to Tutankhamun’s burial chamber which had lain untouched and unnoticed for over 3,000 years. Inside the burial chamber was a vast hoard of treasures and artefacts which were intended to accompany Tutankhamun into the afterlife. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/45069a68-9d9e-482d-b163-c9f7889d7bef/Queen%2BMary%2BI.jpg This week in history - February 16th - 22nd - Birth of Bloody Mary 1516 - Queen Mary I, the daughter of King Henry VIII and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, was born. She became the first ruling queen of England. Did you know that she was given the nickname Bloody Queen Mary for her persecution and execution of Protestants by burning about 300 of them at the stake? Mary was a strict Catholic and had refused to change her faith when her father became Head of the Church of England and made England a Protestant nation. When she became Queen she tried to make England a Catholic country again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1644407983919-RMUX4TWF7XE97SMFQ47M/Phonograph.png This week in history - February 16th - 22nd - The phonograph was patented 1878 - Thomas Edison patented the phonograph - the first device to record and play sound. Can you believe that the way we listen to podcasts and music today derived from this machine? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1613072176594-T3UZEY4WSGG8VO86JKDI/Trevithick+steam+locomotive.png This week in history - February 16th - 22nd - The first railway journey ever took place in Wales 1804 - The first ever railway journey in the world was made in South Wales by Richard Trevithick on his steam locomotive between the ironworks at Penydarren and the Merthyr-Cardiff Canal, a journey of 9 miles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1645030405722-57ERE3SA5ALFMUBT5O6N/Welsh%2BNational%2BDress.jpg This week in history - February 16th - 22nd - French invaders rounded up by a brave Welsh woman called Jemima Nicholas 1797 - The last invasion of Britain took place at Fishguard in Wales. The French troops who tried to invade were not as successful as their ancestors, the Normans, had been over 700 years before. These invading soldiers became distracted by the rich food and wine that they looted from the locals who, in turn, had recently looted it from a grounded Portuguese ship nearby. Whilst the soldiers were enjoying themselves on all the goodies, a brave lady by the name of Jemima Nicholas marched out to Llanwnda where they had landed, and with a pitchfork in her hand, rounded up 12 of the French soldiers and promptly locked them in a church before going off in search of more. By 25th February the invading troops had all surrendered to a local militia group. I doubt the French soldiers ever thought that they’d be beaten by a Welsh woman waving a pitchfork, but I bet they never wanted to see her again. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/february-9th-15th monthly 0.5 2026-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/c143f17c-9336-4c20-ab91-5b7e28202bb3/Lord+Darnley.jpg This week in history - February 9th - 15th - The Queen of Scot’s husband was murdered 1567 - Lord Darnley, Henry Stewart, the husband of Mary Queen of Scots was murdered in the orchard of Kirk o’ Field in Edinburgh; Mary was a suspect in his death. Together they had a son who grew up to become King James VI and I (of Scotland and of England). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/f0f8fc93-2b50-4eec-93e9-1b05bdf038d0/Victoria+and+Albert.jpg This week in history - February 9th - 15th - Queen of England married her cousin 1840 - Queen Victoria married her cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in St James’s Palace in London. They had nine children together and when Prince Albert died in 1861, Queen Victoria was so upset that she began wearing black mourning clothes and continued to wear black for the rest of her life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/f9e3210a-51db-4a41-838b-2406af033099/Eilzabeth+of+York.jpg This week in history - February 9th - 15th - Mother to Henry VIII was born 1466 - Elizabeth of York was born. She was the eldest child of King Edward IV, and married King Henry VII. Through their marriage the two warring houses of the Wars of the Roses were united. Elizabeth was mother to King Henry VIII. She died on her birthday in 1503. Can you work out how old she was when she died? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/125308b4-eb55-49d8-90a6-e1dd8e19e5f6/Lady+Jane+Grey.jpg This week in history - February 9th - 15th - Execution of a would be Queen 1554 - Lady Jane Grey was executed at the Tower of London; she was only 16 years old. When she was just 15 years old she had been declared Queen of England following her cousin King Edward VI’s death, but only nine days later the throne was taken by Queen Mary I, the eldest child of Henry VIII. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/0e650082-a9e9-4074-845d-bee5e1961deb/Charles+Darwin.jpg This week in history - February 9th - 15th - Charles Darwin was born in England 1809 - Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, England. He wrote the Origin of Species which introduced the world to the theory of evolution and the idea that humans evolved from apes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/bbbe8f2a-119c-42d4-912e-256bfe0a2c58/Katherine+Howard.jpg This week in history - February 9th - 15th - Henry VIII executed his fifth wife 1542 - Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII was executed for treason. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1d1ed61f-489a-4e4c-9089-557bd69c66cd/Galileo.jpg This week in history - February 9th - 15th - Galileo arrived in Rome to face charges of heresy 1633 - After a 23-day journey from Florence, Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome to face the Pope and the Roman Church for charges of heresy (a belief different to that of the church). He had openly agreed with the theory made by Nicolaus Copernicus in 1530 that the earth revolved around the sun, and that the Earth was not the centre of the universe as the church believed. Galileo was placed under house arrest for the rest of his life. Can you imagine a time when people believed that the sun and all the other planets moved around the Earth? And can you imagine being put under arrest for thinking differently? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1617458100644-LRIZHOQ5HK9P3PMBV7GA/William+and+Mary.jpg This week in history - February 9th - 15th - William and Mary proclaimed King and Queen of England 1689 - William of Orange (King William III), the Protestant ruler of the Netherlands and his wife, Mary, the daughter of King James II, were proclaimed joint monarchs of Britain. They had claimed the throne after Parliament invited them to invade and take the crown from Mary’s Catholic father, King James II who had fled to France. This event was called The Glorious Revolution because the take-over of the throne had occurred without the need for a war. King William III and Queen Mary II were crowned without any opposition. At their coronation they signed the Bill of Rights which, among other things, prevented a Catholic from becoming king or queen of Britain, and also limited the power of the monarchy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/32338211-ebeb-45ba-bbf4-430b1f5ed049/Captin+James+Cook.jpg This week in history - February 9th - 15th - Captain Cook killed by Hawaiians 1779 - The great English explorer and navigator, Captain James Cook, was killed by native Hawaiians during his third visit to the islands. Before his death Captain Cook had sailed around the world twice and mapped great stretches of the Pacific Ocean on his ship HMS Endeavour. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/february-2nd-8th monthly 0.5 2026-02-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/2bbe3b61-a8be-4a3b-80ac-5b93636c1457/Queen+Victoria.jpg This week in history - February 2nd - 8th - Funeral fit for a Queen 1901 - The funeral of Queen Victoria began on the Isle of Wight where she had died eleven days earlier on the 22nd January. Despite having spent the previous 39 years in mourning and wearing only black clothes, she insisted that she was buried in a white dress and with her wedding veil. Her coffin was carried on board the royal yacht from the Isle of Wight to Gosport in Hampshire where it was then placed on a train and taken to Victoria Station in London. The funeral procession began on the route from Victoria Station to Paddington Station where it was placed on another train and taken to Windsor Castle. Queen Victoria’s coffin was finally laid to rest in Frogmore Mausoleum which she had built for her husband Prince Albert upon his death. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/78398325-14f6-4b28-9e41-f4b6967751e2/Rosa%2BParks.jpg This week in history - February 2nd - 8th - Birth of a successful activist 1913 - Rosa Parks was born in Alabama, U.S.A. She was an American Civil Rights Activist who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger when the bus became crowded. Her actions led to a boycott of the bus company and changes to the law which then made it illegal to have segregated seating on buses. Rosa Parks received numerous awards throughout her career including the Presidential Medal of Freedom which is the highest award given by the U.S.A. to people who have contributed to the national interests of the country, the recipients are chosen by the American President. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/2a44ab24-e67b-4344-a9f0-e95ba3aba5d1/Robert+Peel.jpg This week in history - February 2nd - 8th - Robert Peel, founder of the police force was born in Lancashire 1788 - Robert Peel, British politician and the founder of the modern police force, was born in Lancashire. ‘Peelers’ and ‘Bobbies’ the nicknames given to the early police force were taken from his name. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/dda946bf-3163-485f-8395-08fc5675c36c/Queen+Anne.jpg This week in history - February 2nd - 8th - Queen Anne was born in London 1665 - Queen Anne of England was born in London. She became queen after both King William III and Queen Mary II died childless. She was the younger sister of Queen Mary II; they were both daughters of the deposed King James II and VII. Did you know that she was pregnant 18 times? Sadly, only five of her children were born alive and only one of those survived past infancy. Unfortunately, he died when he was just 11 years old. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/29dc5c1e-0537-42de-b6ab-8826f96418ee/King+Charles+II.jpg This week in history - February 2nd - 8th - King Charles II died at the mercy of his doctors 1685 - King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland died. His father King Charles I had been executed during the English Civil War and for a while the nation had been ruled by Parliament and a Lord Protector (Oliver Cromwell). King Charles II had at least 12 children by his mistresses but had no legitimate heirs. Charles died a slow and painful death suffering at the hands of his doctors who actually thought that they were healing him. Thankfully medicine has progressed a lot since then, Did you know that the years of his reign are called the ‘Restoration Period’? This is because the monarchy had been restored following the English Civil War and the reign of Parliament and the Lord Protector. He was uncle to Queen Anne and Queen Mary II. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/e1343ba8-85a7-493b-9c36-aaf924f7b482/King+George+VI.jpg This week in history - February 2nd - 8th - Death of King George VI 1952 - King George VI died. He had never expected to become king because he was the second son of King George V. His older brother (King Edward VIII) abdicated the throne leaving the job to George who stepped in and became King George VI. He was the grandfather of our current king: King Charles III of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/47a74844-a583-4a2b-b207-fe07ea13e76e/Charles+Dickens.jpg This week in history - February 2nd - 8th - Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth 1812 - Charles Dickens, the famous English author and writer of stories such as Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol, was born in Portsmouth, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/44fc0ca0-bbcf-4f1e-b3dc-9cdb2742edeb/Mary%2BQueen%2Bof%2BScots.jpg This week in history - February 2nd - 8th - Execution of a queen 1587 - Mary, Queen of Scots was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle after being found guilty of plotting to assassinate her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I. Having been forced to abdicate the Scottish throne in favour of her baby son James, Mary was forced to flee to England for safety where she was then held prisoner for 19 years by Queen Elizabeth I who had been wary of her Scottish cousin’s potential claim to the English throne. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/january-26th-february-1st monthly 0.5 2026-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1611159910279-W57YUZB1PT12VRFQ42KC/Australia%2Bflag.jpg This week in history - January 26th - February 1st - Australia Day 1788 - The British established a settlement in Sydney Harbour, Australia. Eleven ships containing 778 convicts arrived to set up a penal colony in an attempt to relieve overcrowded prisons in England. This day has now become known as Australia Day, a day on which Australians recognise and celebrate Australia’s cultural diversity https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/3903eb9a-3706-4704-8998-d06b496ae43e/John+Logie+Baird.jpg This week in history - January 26th - February 1st - Television makes a public appearance 1926 - In London, John Logie Baird, a Scottish inventor, gave the first public demonstration of a television system. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/d56c645f-6fed-4713-9305-f98de9876f58/Auschwitz+Gates.jpg This week in history - January 26th - February 1st - Soviet troops made a terrifying discovery as they rescued prisoners 1945 - Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz. It was only then that the world realised the full extent of the horrors of the camps. The Soviet Army found 648 corpses, more than 7,000 starving prisoners, and storehouses filled with hundreds of thousands of items of clothing that the German army had not had time to burn. During its time, Auschwitz had been the site of over one million murders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/b555f61f-cd14-4091-929f-5ed65b86eaa1/King+Henry+VII.jpg This week in history - January 26th - February 1st - King Henry VII was born in Wales 1457 - Henry Tudor was born in Pembroke Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales. He defeated King Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field ending the Wars of the Roses to become King Henry VII. He was father to Henry VIII who died on this day 90 years later. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/51e62022-8402-4e0a-9848-8465d6da15e1/King+Henry+VIII.jpg This week in history - January 26th - February 1st - Death of King Henry VIII 1547- King Henry VIII died. He was king of England from 1509-1547 and is famous for having six wives and breaking England away from the Catholic Church of Rome. Henry turned England into a Protestant nation just so that he could divorce his first wife Catherine of Aragon, and marry Anne Boleyn. There is a simple phrase for remembering the fate of his six wives - divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. Do you know the names of all of his wives and the order in which they were married to Henry VIII? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/8cacaef5-9e67-4c09-9c6a-dddd7ffd7349/Sir+Francis+Drake.jpg This week in history - January 26th - February 1st - Man responsible for singeing the King of Spain’s beard died 1596 - Sir Francis Drake died of a fever and was buried at sea off the coast of Panama. Drake was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe; he was one of Queen Elizabeth I’s favourites; and is famous for ‘Singeing the King of Spain’s Beard’ when he set light to the Spanish Armada which was heading to England to make war. Around 20 -30 Spanish ships were sunk before they could leave the Port of Cadiz whilst on their way to attack England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/48984545-fb0c-4f59-9fec-2c6f64602c36/King+George+III.jpg This week in history - January 26th - February 1st - Mad King George died 1820 - King George III of Great Britain died at Windsor Castle. He reigned from 1760-1820 and, at the time, was the longest serving English monarch. He had fifteen children with his wife Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and he suffered with serious bouts of mental illness which gained him the nickname Mad King George. He also had the nickname ‘Farmer George’ because of his agricultural interests. During his reign America gained independence from Britain following the American War of Independence. Did you know that he collected over 65,000 books which he donated to start the British Library? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/f4f1ca20-83b6-445d-83ae-0f2f6603a6a4/King%2BCharles%2BI.jpg This week in history - January 26th - February 1st - King Charles I was executed 1649 - King Charles I of Great Britain and Ireland was executed in London during the English Civil War. He is the only English King to have been executed. On the day of his execution, he wore two shirts to stop himself from shivering from the cold winter’s day because he thought the people would think he was shaking with fear. The monarchy was replaced by the Commonwealth of England led by Oliver Cromwell. Cromwell went on to became Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland when the Parliament set up to replace the monarchy failed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/f0e6e42d-974b-41df-8d66-7454ed17be21/Guy+Fawkes.jpg This week in history - January 26th - February 1st - Guy Fawkes escaped execution by falling from the gallows and breaking his neck 1606 - Guy Fawkes died. He was meant to be executed by being hanged, drawn and quartered for his part in the Gunpowder Plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament; but he fell or possibly jumped from the gallows ladder and died of a broken neck. Now dead, Guy thought he’d escaped the cruel punishment that had been in store for him but he thought wrong. King James wasn’t going to let Guy get off that easily. Despite already being dead (so none of what happened next actually hurt him) Guy Fawkes’ body was still quartered (cut into four pieces) and distributed around the country to be put on public display as a warning to anybody else considering treason. What a gruesome thing to happen? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/fab3f00c-177a-4297-bfdf-439ee6da5079/Bonnie+Prince+Charlie.jpg This week in history - January 26th - February 1st - Death of the bonnie prince 1788 - Prince Charles Edward Stuart, better known as Bonnie Prince Charlie, died of a stroke in Rome, Italy. He was 67 years old. He had been leader of the Jacobite Rebellions (1745); an army of Scotsmen who fought unsuccessfully against the English in an attempt to reclaim the throne for his father, James, who was the son of the deposed King James II of England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/08a17b5a-82ea-4c05-ab51-9abf91aec38c/King+Edward+III.jpg This week in history - January 26th - February 1st - Coronation of a teenage king 1327 - King Edward III was crowned King of England at the age of 14 years. His father King Edward II had been deposed and then murdered by his mother and her boyfriend, Roger Mortimer. This made the young Edward, King but because he was so young his mother and Mortimer ruled the country in Edward’s name. He did not always agree with their decisions and when he was old enough to rule himself, he captured Mortimer and had him executed, and for a while confined his own mother to a comfortable life in a castle before allowing her some freedom once more. Did you know that during his reign the Black Death killed nearly a third of the English population? https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/9ujbnn77pdeqceoocot30n0i8qalmy monthly 0.5 2026-01-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/f4f1ca20-83b6-445d-83ae-0f2f6603a6a4/King%2BCharles%2BI.jpg This week in history - January 19th - 25th - The King of England went on trial for treason 1649 - Following his defeat and capture during the English Civil War, King Charles I went on trial for treason and other ‘high crimes’. His trial was one of the most famous events to have taken place in Westminster Hall in the Houses of Parliament. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/334156a0-0052-498e-9e28-f3caac6a19b4/King+George+V.jpg This week in history - January 19th - 25th - Death of King George V 1936 - King George V of Great Britain died, he was 71 years old. During World War I he changed the royal family surname from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor in order to break associations with his family’s German heritage and to make the royal family appear more English. His son David inherited the crown and became King Edward VIII. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/2bbe3b61-a8be-4a3b-80ac-5b93636c1457/Queen+Victoria.jpg This week in history - January 19th - 25th - Death of a Queen 1901 - Queen Victoria died at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight after reigning for 64 years. During her time as queen, the world had changed dramatically with inventions such as the telephone and motorcar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/8cec426b-b0d1-4238-bfb7-8fbda4b94ff3/King+Henry+I.jpg This week in history - January 19th - 25th - Henry I married his 2nd wife, Adeliza 1121 - King Henry I of England married his second wife Adeliza of Louvain at Windsor Castle. Henry’s first wife had died three years before and his only male heir William the Atheling had died in the White Ship tragedy in 1120. It was important for King Henry to marry and to try for another son, unfortunately their marriage remained childless. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1611160918246-LBSF884GQDYI08PDQUUO/HenryVIII+%26+Anne+Boleyn.png This week in history - January 19th - 25th - Henry VIII married Anne Boleyn 1533 - King Henry VIII married his second wife, Anne Boleyn, in a secret ceremony at Whitehall Palace in London. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/acxhzmqod36uf0f2to2x7rhcz9ah7f monthly 0.5 2026-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/f5b28f1c-7292-40cd-8c76-47ee28edc5fa/Wright+brothers+airplane.jpg This week in history - January 12th - 18th - First plane to completely fly a 1km circuit 1908 - Henri Farman, an Anglo-French aviation pioneer and aircraft builder, won the Grand Prix d’Aviation and became the first person to successfully fly a 1 km circuit in his bi-plane the ‘Voisin-Farman I’. It took him 1 min. 28 secs. to fly the circuit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/48adffd1-bc8f-4eea-a829-9f2bf0d95866/Queen%2BElizabeth%2BI%2Byoung.jpg This week in history - January 12th - 18th - Coronation of Queen Elizabeth I 1559 - Queen Elizabeth I was crowned Queen of England at Westminster Abbey in London. Her coronation ceremony mixed both Catholic practices and Protestant ones, with parts of the service being read in Latin and then English. Following the strictly Catholic rule of her older half-sister Queen Mary I, this gave the country a sign of the changes to come. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/32338211-ebeb-45ba-bbf4-430b1f5ed049/Captin+James+Cook.jpg This week in history - January 12th - 18th - First recorded crossing of the Antarctic Circle 1773 - Captain James Cook aboard his ship, the Resolution, became the first to cross the Antarctic Circle approximately 66.5 degrees south of the equator. Despite January being summertime in the southern hemisphere it was still extremely cold, and he wrote in the ship’s diary that although it was impossible for him to continue south towards the South Pole, he was glad he had to turn back northwards for the warmer weather. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/6554d7ed-68d9-4f92-b860-d0b1c9712885/Tudor+Rose.jpg This week in history - January 12th - 18th - Marriage of Henry VII to Elizabeth of York 1486 - King Henry VII married Elizabeth of York, the daughter of King Edward IV. Henry was from the House of Lancaster and by marrying Elizabeth he united the two warring Houses of the Wars of the Roses. To highlight this union he created a new emblem for a new family; the Tudor Rose brings together the red rose of House Lancaster and the white rose of House York into one red and white rose. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/vzwac1fdowraszmd3t49gt1qgduekf monthly 0.5 2026-01-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1cbfb5ef-2d1f-48d2-b264-e77a77e5e25f/Edward+the+Confessor.jpg This week in history - January 5th - 11th - Edward the Confessor died without an heir causing a year of chaos 1066 - Edward the Confessor, King of England died. He left no children or heirs, sparking problems for England and Harold Godwinson, the man who claimed the throne upon his death. This would be a year of great change in English history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/51e62022-8402-4e0a-9848-8465d6da15e1/King+Henry+VIII.jpg This week in history - January 5th - 11th - Henry VIII was forbidden to remarry but wiould that stop him? 1531 - Pope Clemens VII forbade King Henry VIII to remarry. Henry wanted to divorce Catherine of Aragon because she hadn’t given him a son, and then he wanted to marry Anne Boleyn. The Pope’s refusal to grant Henry permission to remarry led to the creation of the Church of England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1621278185385-BWGLJRH6SC2P2C0CDW52/Amy%2BJohnson.jpg This week in history - January 5th - 11th - Amy Johnson and her plane disappeared over England 1941 - Amy Johnson, the British pilot who became the first female pilot to fly solo from Britain to Australia, disappeared whilst flying a plane from Blackpool to Kidlington in Oxfordshire. Her plane crashed into the Thames Estuary and her body has never been found. Her death has remained a mystery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/be7a1a94-b9f3-4c9c-a7e1-e31e928d6af2/King+Harold+II.jpg This week in history - January 5th - 11th - Just one day after the old king died, Harold Godwinson was crowned King of England 1066 - Harold Godwinson was crowned King Harold II at Winchester Abbey the day after Edward the Confessor died. The speed with which he was crowned following the death of the previous king hinted that he knew his position was in jeopardy - being crowned king gave him some security but before the year was out he had to fight off two other claimants to the throne - King Harald Hardrada of Norway and William, Duke of Normandy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/9fff0e9a-c309-49d5-8ad5-982a222f34b8/King+Richard+II.jpg This week in history - January 5th - 11th - Richard II was born in France 1367 - King Richard II was born in France. His father was Edward the Black Prince, son of King Edward III. Richard became king when his grandfather, Edward III, died because his own father had died when he was only nine years old. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1db6fc92-7daa-4031-b726-9ec84afb16b0/Catherine+of+Aragon.jpg This week in history - January 5th - 11th - Catherine of Aragon died 1536 - Catherine of Aragon, the first wife of King Henry VIII and mother to Queen Mary I, died. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1d1ed61f-489a-4e4c-9089-557bd69c66cd/Galileo.jpg This week in history - January 5th - 11th - Moons spotted orbiting Jupiter 1610 - Galileo Galilei noticed the first three moons of Jupiter: Io, Europa and Ganymede. Upon further observation he realised that they weren’t stars but were in fact moons orbiting Jupiter. A few days later he spotted a fourth moon, Callisto. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1d1ed61f-489a-4e4c-9089-557bd69c66cd/Galileo.jpg This week in history - January 5th - 11th - Death of the astronomer Galileo 1642 - Galileo Galilei, the Italian astronomer died. His observations of the solar system led him to confirm Copernicus’ theory that the Earth revolves around the sun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1609586907023-8FE10NTEIGUCQ1YL6YVF/London+Underground.png This week in history - January 5th - 11th - The London Underground opened for the first time 1863 - The London Underground opened its first railway line which ran between Paddington (then called Bishop’s Road) and Farringdon Street. The trains were not run on electricity like they are today, but instead were all steam powered. Can you imagine what it must have been like with all the steam and smoke in those underground tunnels? https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/jdfm7ltoz5vvk6zp3pepflrwoazjya monthly 0.5 2025-12-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/fab3f00c-177a-4297-bfdf-439ee6da5079/Bonnie+Prince+Charlie.jpg This week in history - December 29th - January 4th - Charles Edward Stuart was born in Rome 1720 - Bonnie Prince Charlie, was born in Rome, Italy. His full name was Charles Edward Louis Philip Casimir Stuart, but he is better known as Charles Edward Stuart or Bonnie Prince Charlie. His grandfather was the deposed King James II of England. Bonnie Prince Charlie led the unsuccessful Jacobite rebellion as a young adult to fight for his father’s right to the English and Scottish thrones. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/29dc5c1e-0537-42de-b6ab-8826f96418ee/King+Charles+II.jpg This week in history - December 29th - January 4th - Scotland defied England and crowned Charles II as King of Scotland 1651 - King Charles II was crowned King Charles II of Scotland at Scone but by the beginning of September Charles had fled to France for safety. England at the time was without a monarch; it had executed King Charles I, the father of Charles II and was now being ruled by Parliament. Scotland, horrified by the decision to execute King Charles I, had invited his eldest son, also called Charles, to be its king. England was quite angry at this and began to fight the Scottish resistance defeating them in September at the Battle of Worcester, which is when Charles II decided to flee to France for his own safety. It wasn’t until 1660, nine years later, that England invited him back to be King of England when it restored the monarchy and had a king once more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1640525235216-7JJZB188FTLWFXD3D4NW/Samuel%2BPepys.jpg This week in history - December 29th - January 4th - Samuel Pepys began to keep a diary 1660 - Samuel Pepys began writing in his diary. In it he wrote about the events of his time including detailed accounts of the Great Fire of London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/f4f1ca20-83b6-445d-83ae-0f2f6603a6a4/King%2BCharles%2BI.jpg This week in history - December 29th - January 4th - King Charles I sent 400 soldiers to arrest 5 men 1642 - King Charles I sent an army of about 400 soldiers to Parliament in order to arrest five men. They were to be arrested because of their petition against the king. The petition was called the Grand Remonstrance and contained over 200 clauses of complaints against the king and his reign. The men had been informed of their imminent arrest and were nowhere to be found when the soldiers arrived to arrest them. The English Civil War started shortly afterwards. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/wps48yb9llv0jkq0g33dvky71zsarm monthly 0.5 2025-12-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/04ec9252-69d8-489a-a031-22aa0d7d4d6d/King+John.jpg This week in history - December 22nd - 28th - King John was born 1167 - King John of England was born in Oxford. He was the youngest son of King Henry II and younger brother to King Richard I, the Lionheart. John was the king who was forced to sign the Magna Carta which restricted the power of the monarchy by the English barons who had rebelled against him, he was also the king who lost the crown jewels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/5c494730-9c60-46c7-9f31-025430218976/William+the+Conqueror.jpg This week in history - December 22nd - 28th - The Conqueror was crowned King of England 1066 - William the Conqueror was crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey following his defeat of King Harold II at the Battle of Hastings on October 14th, 1066. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/c5a7aa08-69d6-4b26-860c-e061fe760e35/King%2BStephen.jpg This week in history - December 22nd - 28th - King Stephen grabbed the English crown before his cousin, the Empress Matilda, could get her chance 1135 - King Stephen was crowned in Westminster Abbey a little over three weeks after the death of his uncle, King Henry I. Stephen basically stole the crown from his cousin Matilda, the daughter of Henry, to whom he had pledged allegiance along with many other barons and noblemen. His reign was blighted by The Anarchy, a civil war with Matilda about who was the rightful monarch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/0e650082-a9e9-4074-845d-bee5e1961deb/Charles+Darwin.jpg This week in history - December 22nd - 28th - Darwin set off on a voyage of discovery from Portsmouth on the HMS Beagle 1831 - Charles Darwin set sail from Plymouth, England on the ship HMS Beagle to begin his voyage of discovery. The journey lasted five years, and his discoveries and experiences led him to his theory of evolution, and his book ‘The Origin of Species’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/a940b97c-129b-44c3-b120-c54a1c71b2d5/Queen+Mary+II.jpg This week in history - December 22nd - 28th - Queen Mary II died of smallpox 1694 - Queen Mary II, daughter of the deposed King James II, died of smallpox. She had ruled as Queen of England alongside her husband William III for 5 years. Mary was the first, and so far only, Queen of England to have equal rule alongside the King; this was because she insisted that her husband have equal rule with her when she was invited to take the throne when her father was deposed. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/december-15th-21st monthly 0.5 2025-12-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1db6fc92-7daa-4031-b726-9ec84afb16b0/Catherine+of+Aragon.jpg This week in history - December 15th - 21st - Catherine of Aragon was born in Spain 1485 - Catherine of Aragon, the first wife of King Henry VIII was born in Madrid, Spain. She had been married to Henry’s older brother Arthur, but he died five months after their wedding, leaving Catherine a widow at the age of 16 years. After a lot of arguing about money and her dowry, Catherine became engaged to Henry VIII. They married shortly after Henry became king. Together they had six children but only one survived, a daughter who lived to become Queen Mary I. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/2f5bd5c5-13b3-472c-95b1-5bcdee3f4996/Oliver+Cromwell.jpg This week in history - December 15th - 21st - England appointed a Lord Protector 1653 - Oliver Cromwell was appointed Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland following the English Civil War and the execution of King Charles I. Following the execution of the king in 1649 there had been a Rump government ruling the country, but this had proved to be ineffective mainly because it took the politicians too long to agree on decisions that needed to be made. They decided to elect one person, Oliver Cromwell, to oversee the running of both Parliament and the country, that person was to have the title of, Lord Protector. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/51e62022-8402-4e0a-9848-8465d6da15e1/King+Henry+VIII.jpg This week in history - December 15th - 21st - Henry VIII excommunicated from the Roman Church 1538 - King Henry VIII was excommunicated from the Catholic Church by Pope Paul III. Excommunication had been threatened by the previous pope, Clement VII, when King Henry’s divorced of Catherine of Aragon but it had been suspended in the hope that the king would ‘start to behave’. Henry had previously been awarded the honour ‘Defender of the Faith’ by Pope Leo X for his defence of the Catholic Church against the Protestant Martin Luther so it was possibly hoped that he would again be faithful to the Church. By the time of his excommunication, Henry had divorced Catherine, married and executed Anne Boleyn, married and buried Jane Seymour (she died after giving birth to their son Edward), executed two leading bishops, desecrated religious shrines, and taken Church lands and treasures for himself as Supreme Head of the Church of England. The worst possible punishment that the Roman Church, headed by the Pope, could inflict on Henry was excommunication. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/f5b28f1c-7292-40cd-8c76-47ee28edc5fa/Wright+brothers+airplane.jpg This week in history - December 15th - 21st - First flight by man 1903 - Orville and Wilbur Wright, two brothers, made the first flight by a motorised aircraft at 10:35am in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in the U.S.A. Orville Wright flew 36 metres in 12 seconds on the first attempt; Wilbur flew 53 metres in 12 seconds on the second attempt; then Orville flew again this time for 60 metres in 15 seconds and finally on the last flight of the day Wilbur flew the airplane 259 metres in 59 seconds. Their plane is on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/396dfd20-b373-4de3-86d7-3a3db9ac48b6/Elizabeth%2BGarrett%2BAnderson.jpg This week in history - December 15th - 21st - First English Female GP Died 1917 - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson died. She was the first English female physician (doctor, GP) and founded the first hospital staffed by women. It all happened because she was turned down at every step for being a woman. Back then women weren’t allowed to study medicine and were even denied entrance to medical schools so Elizabeth enrolled as a nursing student and sneakily began attending classes that were for men only. After complaints about her presence in the classes she was banned from attending any more. Undeterred, Elizabeth continued to study by herself and decided to take apothecary exams (pharmacist exams) because despite not being allowed to be doctors, there was no rule stopping women from being pharmacists. Elizabeth passed the exams with flying colours and gained a certificate to dispense medicines. The rules were changed soon after to stop any other women from being able to do this. But dispensing medicines wasn’t enough for her, Elizabeth still wanted to be a doctor; so she learnt French and went to France where women were allowed to study medicine. She gained her medical degree and became a doctor but back in England the British Medical Board refused to recognise her qualification. So instead, she set up her own hospital and staffed it entirely with women. Elizabeth’s will and determination led to a change in the law in 1876 when an Act was passed finally allowing women to enter the medical profession. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/b64495a6-f6db-4417-83f6-05fd876294ae/King+Henry+II.jpg This week in history - December 15th - 21st - Henry II was crowned King of England and began the reign of the Plantagenet Dynasty 1154 - King Henry II was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey alongside his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine. Henry had been king since the October when his uncle, King Stephen, had died. King Stephen had nabbed the English crown from Henry’s mother the Empress Matilda, daughter of Henry I. The original plan was that the English barons and Stephen would honour their pledge to King Henry I that Matilda would inherit the throne upon his death, but they went back on their word and crowned Stephen as king. After years of civil war called ‘The Anarchy’ between Stephen and Matilda, a treaty was signed stating that Matilda’s son Henry would become king upon Stephen’s death. With Henry II now on the throne, the crown was back where it belonged. His reign marked the start of the Plantagenet dynasty on the English throne. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/december-8th-14th monthly 0.5 2025-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/44fc0ca0-bbcf-4f1e-b3dc-9cdb2742edeb/Mary%2BQueen%2Bof%2BScots.jpg This week in history - December 8th - 14th - Birth of Mary Queen of Scots 1542 - Mary Queen of Scots was born in Linlithgow Palace in Scotland. Just six days after her birth her father, King James V died making Mary, Queen of Scotland. Her great-grandfather was King Henry VII of England, her uncle was Henry VIII, and she was a cousin of Elizabeth I, who held Mary captive for eighteen years before beheading her for treason. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/fe3a9458-37d5-4184-bb2a-7489b17342d2/Clifton+Suspension+Bridge.jpg This week in history - December 8th - 14th - Grand opening of Clifton Suspension Bridge 1864 - The Clifton Suspension Bridge was finally opened in Bristol after over 33 years of construction. The day was marked with special occasions; a military display began in Bristol’s Queen Square at 9:30am followed by a march along the main streets towards the bridge - there were enough marching troops to stretch over half a mile long. The marching bands and troops were followed by a procession of local tradesmen, policemen, firefighters and societies; the procession was that long that it took nearly an hour to pass by. There were fairground stalls, acrobats and street vendors; the river below was filled with decorated steam ships. It was a spectacular event that people had crowded to witness. Following an artillery-gun salute (small canons were fired to celebrate), the parade crossed the bridge and returned back again. In the evening there were some fireworks and sparklers for the crowds who were still attending the celebrations which had begun nearly 12 hours before. Sadly, the architect and designer of the bridge, Isambard Kingdom Brunel had died five years before so did not get to see it completed; he missed out on a spectacular opening day for his greatest achievement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/f26f54b0-c511-4a9a-b87d-fadeb184c46a/King+Edward+VIII.jpg This week in history - December 8th - 14th - The King of England gave up the throne for love 1936 - King Edward VIII abdicated the English throne so that he could marry the woman he loved. Edward was in love with an American woman called Wallis Simpson who had already been divorced once and was, at the time, still married to her second husband. The Royal family, the Church of England, and the English government all disapproved of his desire to marry Wallis and for her to become his queen, so he gave up the throne and his right and the right of any of his children to become King or Queen of England. The throne went to his younger brother who became King George VI. He was the father of Queen Elizabeth II and grandfather to King Charles III. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/780f3614-7e41-45e4-b362-d2284f951088/Guglielmo%2BMarconi.jpg This week in history - December 8th - 14th - First transatlantic radio signal sent 1901 - Guglielmo Marconi sent the first transatlantic radio signal from Cornwall, England to Newfoundland, Canada. This scientific breakthrough paved the way for wireless communications; cables of wires would no longer need to be laid in order to transmit telegraph signals between countries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/8cacaef5-9e67-4c09-9c6a-dddd7ffd7349/Sir+Francis+Drake.jpg This week in history - December 8th - 14th - Francis Drake set sail around the world 1578 - Francis Drake, backed by Queen Elizabeth I, set off on his circumnavigation of the globe from Portsmouth, on the south-west coast of England. He set sail in his ship called the Pelican, with four other ships but only the Pelican successfully completed the round the world trip. During the voyage he changed the name of the Pelican to ‘The Golden Hind’. The official backing of Queen Elizabeth I gave Francis Drake permission to piracy against Spanish ships without getting into trouble. He returned from his voyage nearly two years later, his ship was laden with treasures and spices. He was knighted on the deck of his ship by Queen Elizabeth I when it sailed up the River Thames on its return and became ‘Sir’ Francis Drake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/44fc0ca0-bbcf-4f1e-b3dc-9cdb2742edeb/Mary%2BQueen%2Bof%2BScots.jpg This week in history - December 8th - 14th - Six-day-old Baby girl became Queen of Scotland 1542 - A baby girl became Mary, Queen of Scots when her father King James V of Scotland died. He too had become king when he was only a baby after his father died fighting the English at the Battle of Flodden. When he was just a teenager, King James V was held captive for three years whilst his captors, led by his stepfather Archibald Douglas, the Earl of Angus, ruled Scotland in his name. James managed to escape and the first thing he did was to exile his stepfather and confiscate his lands. King James V died of ill health, possibly cholera, shortly after the Battle of Solway Moss where he fought against his uncle, King Henry VIII. His 6-day-old daughter was made Queen of Scotland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/54cb7e4a-c2cb-47a9-9e09-3b304dbb9436/Victoria+and+Albert.jpg This week in history - December 8th - 14th - Queen Victoria devastated as Prince Albert dies 1861 - Prince Albert. the husband and consort of Queen Victoria, died at Windsor Castle. Queen Victoria mourned her husband’s death for the rest of her life; refusing to wear anything but the colour black from that day onwards. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/e1343ba8-85a7-493b-9c36-aaf924f7b482/King+George+VI.jpg This week in history - December 8th - 14th - Make it stand out 1895 - King George VI was born in Norfolk, England. He was the second son of King George V and did not expect to become King of England because he had an older brother. His older brother, King Edward VIII, chose to abdicate the throne (give up the throne) so this meant that the next in line to become king was George. George’s real name was Albert, he had been named after his great grandfather Prince Albert because he was born on the anniversary of Albert’s death. He chose to be called King George VI to emulate his father and try and make the country have faith in the royal family again after the scandal of the abdication of Edward VIII. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/december-1st-7th monthly 0.5 2025-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/8cec426b-b0d1-4238-bfb7-8fbda4b94ff3/King+Henry+I.jpg This week in history - December 1st - 7th - King Henry I died without a male heir 1135 - King Henry I of England died. He had become king in very suspicious circumstances; when his older brother King William II (a.k.a. William Rufus) had been injured and killed in a hunting accident in the New Forest, Hampshire. At the time of the accident Henry is said to have raced to claim the throne instead of consoling his dying brother. Henry left no legitimate male heirs, so his nephew Stephen with the backing of the nobility raced to the throne to be crowned King of England before Henry’s daughter Matilda, who was in France, could be made queen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/78398325-14f6-4b28-9e41-f4b6967751e2/Rosa%2BParks.jpg This week in history - December 1st - 7th - Rosa Parks arrested for not moving seats on a bus 1955 - Rosa Parks was arrested for civil disobedience for refusing to move to the back of a bus and give her seat to a white person in Alabama, U.S.A. Her arrest sparked a boycott of the bus system and led to a Supreme Court ruling against segregation on public transport in America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/680e37ac-d7e4-473d-a641-9dd6fadefd05/Edith+Cavell.jpg This week in history - December 1st - 7th - Edith Cavell was born 1865 - Edith Cavell was born in Norfolk, England. During World War I she became a nurse in German occupied Belgium and treated both German and Allied soldiers alike. She was caught aiding Allied soldiers to escape., found guilty, and sentenced to death for her actions. This led to uproar from governments around the world, but despite their objections, Edith Cavell was executed by firing squad along with others also convicted of the same crime. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/adc026c2-f716-4369-bcc2-5789cbcd9502/King+Henry+VI.jpg This week in history - December 1st - 7th - King Henry VI was born 1421 - King Henry VI of England was born. He became King of England when he was only 9 months old after his father King Henry V died. His reign was split into two parts during the Wars of the Roses which was a war between royal cousins over who had the right to be king. Henry VI was overthrown in 1461 by his cousin, Edward of York, who became King Edward IV. Edward IV was in turn overthrown in 1470 and replaced by Henry VI again. Henry’s second reign of England lasted for a few short months before he was deposed in 1471 and the throne was taken back by King Edward IV once more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/c143f17c-9336-4c20-ab91-5b7e28202bb3/Lord+Darnley.jpg This week in history - December 1st - 7th - Lord Darnley was born 1545 - Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, was born in Yorkshire, England. He married Mary Queen of Scots and was father to King James VI of Scotland and I of England. He was murdered in suspicious circumstances and his wife Mary Queen of Scots was suspected of having a hand in his murder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/67c58071-9c69-4e44-a58d-81e8f194ed2b/Cow+in+tree.jpg This week in history - December 1st - 7th - The Great Storm of 1703 1703 - The Great Storm of 1703 visited Britain overnight from the 7th - 8th December. It was so bad that it reportedly killed between 8,000 and 15,000 people. A description of the aftermath went, “It blew fish out of ponds and onto the banks in London’s St James’s Park, beat birds to the ground and swept farm animals away to their deaths. Oaks collapsed and pieces of timber, iron and lead blasted through the streets. The gales blew a man into the air and over a hedge. A cow was blown into the high branches of a tree…” (www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170309-in-1703-britain-was-struck-by-possibly-its-worst-ever-storm) Sounds absolutely horrific! https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/p9bhuyh7m9ev84ihsp7007xy4t0pjm monthly 0.5 2025-11-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/0e650082-a9e9-4074-845d-bee5e1961deb/Charles+Darwin.jpg This week in history - November 24th - 30th - Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species’ caused controversy when it was published 1859 - ‘On the Origin of Species’ was published by Charles Darwin. His book and theory changed the way people viewed evolution, and raised many questions on Christian beliefs. Despite scientists praising his work many Christians called Darwin a heretic, believing still that God created man in his own image, and that there was no way that humans could have evolved from apes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/8cec426b-b0d1-4238-bfb7-8fbda4b94ff3/King+Henry+I.jpg This week in history - November 24th - 30th - Henry I left distraught when his son and heir drowned at sea 1120 - Prince William Atheling, the son and only legitimate male heir of King Henry I of England drowned in the English Channel in the White Ship tragedy. William was among three hundred of the nobility who were onboard the ship when it sank after hitting a rock. Everybody drowned including the oarsmen and the captain with one exception, a French butcher. The butcher claimed to have seen the Captain purposefully drown himself after hearing that the Prince had already disappeared beneath the sea. The disaster caused problems years later when King Henry died, because arguments arose over who was the rightful heir to the throne. This caused a civil war in England known as The Anarchy; Matilda, Henry’s daughter, was supposed to become Queen but instead her cousin Stephen took the crown with the support of some of the nobility - back then people didn’t think it was right for a woman to rule a country. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/f4f1ca20-83b6-445d-83ae-0f2f6603a6a4/King%2BCharles%2BI.jpg This week in history - November 24th - 30th - City of Newark under siege for the third time 1645 - The third Siege of Newark began during the English Civil War. During this last siege of the castle and town, Scottish forces who had joined with the Parliamentarians were in position to take control of the town. They dug huge earthworks around the town, and the nearby River Devon was dammed to stop the corn mills from being able to work. By the following March the town of Newark still hadn’t surrendered to the Scottish forces; the town’s governor only admitted defeat when King Charles surrendered himself to the Scots in an attempt to split the alliance between the Scots and the Parliamentarians. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/47da57e4-9c69-434e-ba23-f9741f85e7c3/King+Edward+I.jpg This week in history - November 24th - 30th - Edward I called together the Model Parliament 1295 - King Edward I called, what became known as, The Model Parliament. It is regarded as the first representative parliament. The King had called for archbishops, bishops, archdeacons, and proctors from each diocese (a church district), 2 knights from each shire, 2 citizens from each city, 2 representatives from each borough, 7 earls and 42 barons to come together to decide on his request of financial aid for the wars he was waging against France and Scotland. Each representative group met separately to consider the King’s request; clergy (the church), nobles (earls, barons and knights) and commoners (the regular everyday citizens). Each group decided to support the king, with each donating a percentage of their income. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/47da57e4-9c69-434e-ba23-f9741f85e7c3/King+Edward+I.jpg This week in history - November 24th - 30th - Make it stand out 1291 - Eleanor of Castile, the wife of King Edward I, died in Northamptonshire. The king placed crosses at every stopping point her coffin rested, along its route from Northamptonshire back to London. Some of these crosses can still be seen at Geddington, Hardingstone, and Waltham. During their thirty-six years of marriage, Eleanor gave birth to sixteen children but only six of them survived to adulthood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/66a09467-16ad-46a5-a7ec-98d8df863c97/King+Edmund+Ironside.jpg This week in history - November 24th - 30th - King Edmund II ‘Ironside’ died 1016 - King Edmund II of England died. He was also known as Edmund Ironside, a nickname he got for his size and strength. Edmund was the son of King Aethelred the Unready who had lost the English throne to King Sweyn of Denmark. Edmund became King of England when Sweyn died but faced invasions led by Sweyn’s son, King Canute of Denmark, who believed he had the right to the English throne and not Edmund. Edmund was not as easily defeated as his father had been and after several battles with the Danes suggested that he and Canute fight one on one. Seeing how big Edmund was, King Canute is reported to have said it would be an unfair battle and suggested splitting England into two separately governed kingdoms once more. Edmund agreed to the proposal and to a pact that the country would be joined again on the death of either King. Edmund Ironside died in suspicious circumstances just six months after, leaving King Canute to rule over all of England. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/november-17th-23rd monthly 0.5 2025-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/45069a68-9d9e-482d-b163-c9f7889d7bef/Queen%2BMary%2BI.jpg This week in history - November 17th - 23rd - Death of Queen Mary I 1558 - Queen Mary I of England died. She was 42 years old and had no children to inherit her throne. This meant that her half-sister Elizabeth became Queen Elizabeth I. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/f4f1ca20-83b6-445d-83ae-0f2f6603a6a4/King%2BCharles%2BI.jpg This week in history - November 17th - 23rd - King Charles I was born 1600 - King Charles I was born in Dunfermline, Scotland. He was the second son of James VI & I and did not expect to become king. It was only after his older brother Henry died that Charles was destined to rule. Unfortunately, his reign did not go too well, and England was drawn into a bitter and bloody Civil War between Parliamentarians and Royalists. The Royalists lost the war, and Charles was executed. The monarchy was replaced by a Lord Protector of England - Oliver Cromwell but as we all know this Protectorship was not successful because we now have King Charles III on the throne. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/65990bb5-008a-42c7-819c-5611a6b600a4/Queen+ELizabeth+II.jpg This week in history - November 17th - 23rd - Queen Elizabeth married Philip Mountbatten 1947 - Queen Elizabeth II, who was still a princess at the time, married Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey. The BBC recorded and broadcast the event which was shown to 200 million people around the world. Did you know that her wedding cake was 2.75 metres tall? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/f0f8fc93-2b50-4eec-93e9-1b05bdf038d0/Victoria+and+Albert.jpg This week in history - November 17th - 23rd - Victoria and Albert’s first child was born 1840 - Queen Victoria gave birth to the first of her nine children; her daughter Victoria Adelaide Marie Louise. Princess Victoria could fluently speak English, German, and French by the age of 3 years. She grew up and married Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia who became Emperor of Germany. Her son was Kaiser Wilhelm the leader of Germany during World War I. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/9c663816-6189-4edb-a709-880f7ebe7096/Blackbeard.jpg This week in history - November 17th - 23rd - The infamous pirate ‘Blackbeard’ was killed 1718 - The pirate Edward Teach better known as Blackbeard was killed in a fight with a Royal Navy officer. Lieutenant Maynard beheaded the dead pirate and placed the decapitated head at the front of his ship as a warning to all other pirates in the area. Blackbeard was the most famous and feared of all pirates; it is said that he placed lit fuses under his hat that appeared on either side of his face making him appear naturally fierce and wild and as if he came from hell itself. His legendary buried treasure has never been found. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/c1bb4899-5849-41b8-9b91-9c589b8b2d17/King+Eadred.jpg This week in history - November 17th - 23rd - Death of King Eadred 955 - King Eadred, one of the first kings of all England died. He had suffered from poor health all of his life and could barely eat anything. During his reign he defeated the continuous uprisings in Northumbria; the people there had proclaimed the Viking Erik Bloodaxe, then Olaf Sihtricson, and then Erik Bloodaxe again as their king even though they had already acknowledged King Eadred as their overlord. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/23acf820-91d8-442f-8476-122ea6ad4b29/JL+Love.jpg This week in history - November 17th - 23rd - JL Love patented the modern pencil sharpener 1897 - The pencil sharpener as we know it today was patented by J.L. Love. Before this, pencil sharpeners were a lot larger and used a handle to turn the blades to sharpen the pencils. J.L. Love’s design was small enough to put in your pocket or pencil-case. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/november-10th-16th monthly 0.5 2025-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/6b150c31-7bf9-40e6-98a1-99c58ace76dc/Martin+Luther.jpg This week in history - November 10th - 16th - Martin Luther was born 1483 - Martin Luther, the Protestant Reformer, was born in Saxony, a part of Germany. He played a major part in bringing Protestantism to Europe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/5fbe526f-86aa-4302-afe8-2ba79fe2c100/King+George+II.jpg This week in history - November 10th - 16th - George II was born in Hanover, Germany 1683 - King George II was born in Germany. He was the only son of King George I and became king when his father died. King George II had nine children with his wife Princess Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/8cec426b-b0d1-4238-bfb7-8fbda4b94ff3/King+Henry+I.jpg This week in history - November 10th - 16th - The English and Scottish thrones were united in marriage 1100 - King Henry I married Princess Matilda of Scotland in Westminster Abbey. Their marriage united the Norman and Saxon lines to the throne. Matilda, also known as Maud, was the daughter of King Malcolm III of Scotland. She was also the great-great-niece of Edward the Confessor, once King of England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/089b262b-719f-4eaf-b738-1e317e120833/Poppy.jpg This week in history - November 10th - 16th - Armistice Day 1918 - The Armistice (which is an agreement to stop fighting) signed by both the Allies and Germany in World War I, came into effect on the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month. It was called the Treaty of Versailles and it meant that the war was over. Over 8.5 million soldiers had died fighting; over 21 million soldiers were wounded; and the total casualties of the war including prisoners and missing persons was over 37 million people - that’s more than half the population of the U.K today. This day is remembered around the world under various names - Remembrance Day, Armistice Day, Veterans Day. Here in the U.K. people buy and wear red poppies to remember those who fought and died defending our country and our freedom. On Remembrance Sunday, just after the two-minute silence and gun salute, soldiers and veterans march through Whitehall to the Cenotaph to place wreaths of poppies in honour of the fallen soldiers. The red poppy was the first flower to start blooming all over the battlefields where many soldiers had fallen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/8afa88b6-d004-4590-9e9a-ecafa0f0da77/King+Aethelred+the+Unready.jpg This week in history - November 10th - 16th - St Brice’s Day Massacre 1002 - King Aethelred the Unready ordered the killing of all Danes or Vikings in the Anglo-Saxon territories of England in the St Brice’s Day Massacre. He believed that the Vikings were plotting to kill him and his men, and were going to take over England. The order to execute the Vikings in England proved to be a very bad decision as their short fast raids turned into a continual onslught of attacks which lasted over a decade. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/08a17b5a-82ea-4c05-ab51-9abf91aec38c/King+Edward+III.jpg This week in history - November 10th - 16th - Edward III was born 1312 - King Edward III of England was born in Windsor Castle. He was the eldest son of King Edward II and became king when his father died in 1327. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/125308b4-eb55-49d8-90a6-e1dd8e19e5f6/Lady+Jane+Grey.jpg This week in history - November 10th - 16th - Lady Jane Grey found guilty of treason 1553 - Having been imprisoned in the Tower of London for several months, Lady Jane Grey, was found guilty of treason and sentenced to death. Lady Jane was queen of England for just nine days following the death of her cousin King Edward VI. Despite having two sisters, Mary and Elizabeth, Edward VI had proclaimed Jane as his rightful heir, making her queen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/a66410c3-32f8-49fd-925c-0731ec7ca41e/King+William+III.jpg This week in history - November 10th - 16th - King William III was born in The Hague 1650 - King William III of England was born Prince Willem of Orange in The Hague, Netherlands. He was a son of Mary, the daughter of King Charles I, and married Mary his cousin, who was daughter of King James VII & II. Both he and his wife Mary were asked to take the throne when the English Parliament were not happy with how her father, King James VII & II, was ruling England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/3a83aa85-462c-4e47-a0cb-aef6462a330c/King+Charles+III.jpg This week in history - November 10th - 16th - King Charles III was born 1948 - King Charles III was born in London. He is the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and is the oldest person to become King of the United Kingdoms of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/082741e1-0f83-4c50-8c66-f5e8fbc3aa5b/King+Henry+III.jpg This week in history - November 10th - 16th - Death of King Henry III 1272 - King Henry III of England died. Henry was only nine years old when he became king. At the time a council of regency was set up to help him rule the kingdom because he was so young. In 1264, Henry III and his eldest son, Edward, were captured by English nobility, led by a baron called Simon de Montfort. The nobility were unhappy with the king’s reign and once they had him as a prisoner, they began to rule England in Henry’s name. This meant that they ruled the country pretending the king had agreed to everything they said. Prince Edward managed to escape and raised an army to defeat the opposition at the Battle of Evesham where he successfully killed Simon de Montfort and released his father. When Henry III died his son, Edward became King Edward I. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/november-3rd-9th monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/51e62022-8402-4e0a-9848-8465d6da15e1/King+Henry+VIII.jpg This week in history - November 3rd - 9th - Henry VIII became Head of the Church of England 1534 - The first Act of Supremacy was passed by English Parliament. This meant that King Henry VIII and all subsequent monarchs of England would be Head of the Church of England. The Act confirmed King Henry VIII was now Head of the Church in England and that the Pope no longer held authority in England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/f733a6e2-8ddb-4286-a415-49897213f6f4/Cardinal+Thomas+Wolsey.jpg This week in history - November 3rd - 9th - Cardinal Wolsey arrested for treason 1529 - Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, a once trusted minister of King Henry VIII, was arrested on charges of treason. Thomas had worked closely by the king’s side but his downfall can be blamed partly upon his inability to get the Pope to grant Henry a divorce from Catherine of Aragon. He died on his way to London to face his trial. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/f0e6e42d-974b-41df-8d66-7454ed17be21/Guy+Fawkes.jpg This week in history - November 3rd - 9th - Remember, remember, the 5th of November 1605 - Guy Fawkes was arrested for his part in the Gunpowder Plot after barrels of gunpowder camouflaged with coal were discovered under the Houses of Parliament. The Plot aimed to blow up the Protestant Parliament along with King James VI & I and replace both Government and the king with Catholics. Today we remember this episode of history with Bonfire Night or Guy Fawkes Night; celebrated on 5th November with bonfires, fireworks and sparklers. Sometimes a dummy called a ‘Guy’ is burnt on the bonfire representing Guy Fawkes. Ever since the Gunpowder Plot, whenever a king or queen visits Parliament, even today, royal guards search beneath the Houses of Parliament just in case there are any plotters or explosives lurking in the cellars. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/a66410c3-32f8-49fd-925c-0731ec7ca41e/King+William+III.jpg This week in history - November 3rd - 9th - The Glorious Revolution 1688 - The Glorious Revolution began when Prince William of Orange and his army landed near Torquay in the south of England. This was when he and his wife Mary had been invited by English Parliament to overthrow King James VII & II and take the throne of England. William’s wife Mary was the eldest daughter of the Engish king and next in line to the throne. It was called the Glorious Revolution because it was done peacefully and without a drop of blood being spilt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/adc026c2-f716-4369-bcc2-5789cbcd9502/King+Henry+VI.jpg This week in history - November 3rd - 9th - Coronation of King Henry VI 1429 - King Henry VI was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey. He had been king since the tender age of nine months, when his father Henry V died in 1422. The later years of his reign were marred by the Wars of the Roses and battles with his cousins of House York over who had the right to the throne and be king of England. Henry VI was deposed in 1461 but restored to the throne for a very short time in 1470 before being replaced again by his cousin, King Edward IV. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/14a52891-cc8e-4f2d-b926-cc39e1409fd5/Marie+Curie.jpg This week in history - November 3rd - 9th - Birth of a nobel winning scientist 1867 - Marie Curie the scientist who discovered radium was born in Warsaw, Poland. In 1903 she became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize for Physics for her work on radioactivity; she won it jointly with her husband Pierre Curie, and another scientist, Henri Becquerel. In 1911 she won another Nobel Prize, this time for Chemistry for creating a means of measuring radioactivity. During World War I Marie Curie developed small mobile x-ray units that could be used near to the front line to diagnose injuries of the soldiers fighting there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/fab3f00c-177a-4297-bfdf-439ee6da5079/Bonnie+Prince+Charlie.jpg This week in history - November 3rd - 9th - Bonnie Prince Charlie marched into England 1745 - Prince Charles Edward Stuart or Bonnie Prince Charlie entered England with his Jacobite army. The aim was to march to London with his troops, along with a French army, and claim back the English throne which had been his grandfather’s, King James VII & II, who had been deposed and replaced by William and Mary. The promised support from the French never materialised and by the time the Scots, led by Bonnie Prince Charlie, had reached Derby just 125 miles north of London, the Jacobite officers voted to return to Scotland. They realised that their brave few were no match for the might of the English forces without the French army to support them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/d19b6ef0-66c6-4a85-847c-b9f913508b14/Rupert+Bear.jpg This week in history - November 3rd - 9th - Rupert Bear made his first appearance in the Daily Express 1920 - Rupert Bear made his debut as a comic strip in the English newspaper the Daily Express. Rupert is a young bear who wears a red jumper and yellow check trousers with matching scarf. He goes on adventures with his friends: Bill Badger, Edward Trunk, Podgy Pig, Willie Mouse and many others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/48b8e54a-3520-4245-ae83-31d29e43ff02/King+Edward+VII.jpg This week in history - November 3rd - 9th - Queen Victoria gave birth to her second child 1841 - King Edward VII of Great Britain was born in Buckingham Palace, London. He was the eldest son and second child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. He became king in 1901 when his mother died. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/october-27th-november-2nd monthly 0.5 2025-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/ea3839fb-e4a9-4148-bd22-d169d5c8c6c4/King%2BAthelstan.jpg This week in history - October 27th - November 2nd - Death of King Athelstan 939 - King Athelstan died. He was a grandson of King Alfred the Great and was also the king who can claim to be first King of All England. Athelstan forged alliances with European countries by marrying off his half-sisters to their rulers. When he died his half-brother, Edmund became the new king. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/32338211-ebeb-45ba-bbf4-430b1f5ed049/Captin+James+Cook.jpg This week in history - October 27th - November 2nd - Captain Cook was born 1728 - Captain James Cook was born in Yorkshire, England. He is the famous British explorer who became the first European to explore Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/082741e1-0f83-4c50-8c66-f5e8fbc3aa5b/King+Henry+III.jpg This week in history - October 27th - November 2nd - King Henry III crowned at the age of 9 1216 - King Henry III was quickly crowned King of England at Gloucester Abbey just nine days after his father, King John, had died. Henry was only nine years old. He was given a full ceremonial coronation again in 1220 at Westminster Abbey when he was thirteen. Henry III is the fifth longest serving English monarch - he ruled for 56 years and 29 days. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/4c6ef942-5849-4cc8-a481-b153aea63d59/Sir+Walter+Raleigh.jpg This week in history - October 27th - November 2nd - Queen Elizabeth I’s favourite was executed for treason by King James 1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh was executed by King James VI & I for treason. Walter Raleigh was a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, she had bestowed a knighthood on him giving him the title of ‘Sir’ and had also made him captain of the Queen’s Guard. After her death he was accused of plotting against King James; he was imprisoned in the Tower of London and sentenced to death. His sentence was reduced to life imprisonment but after spending 12 years in the Tower of London he was released and sent on an expedition by King James to find El Dorado, the fabled Golden Land. When Raleigh failed to find El Dorado, he was again thrown into the Tower of London to await his execution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/b555f61f-cd14-4091-929f-5ed65b86eaa1/King+Henry+VII.jpg This week in history - October 27th - November 2nd - Coronation of King Henry VII 1485 - King Henry VII was crowned king of England at Westminster Abbey following his victory at the Battle of Bosworth Field during the Wars of the Roses where he defeated King Richard III. Henry VII was the first of the Tudor kings and united the two warring royal houses; House York and House Lancaster, by marrying a daughter of King Edward IV - Elizabeth of York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/0f3e1da5-8bdd-4e82-99dd-af7fec3bbe53/Halloween.jpg This week in history - October 27th - November 2nd - Halloween Halloween - Halloween began in the Celtic festival of Samhain in ancient Britain and Ireland. It was considered to be the last day of the year, the end of the harvest season and the beginning of the dark winter months. It was the time of year when doorways between this world and the Other-world or Afterlife were at their thinnest. It was when the souls of people who had died were believed to return to visit their homes, and the souls of those who had died during that year were able to journey to the other world. To celebrate the festival people lit huge bonfires and brought harvest foods and sacrificed animals to share in a communal feast. They would then use the flames from the bonfire to light their home fires for the winter and to frighten away any evil spirits. People often wore animal heads and skins at the festival, some say this was to avoid being recognised by the ghosts. When Christianity came to Britain the day became known as All Hallow’s Eve which in turn became Halloween. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/9fff0e9a-c309-49d5-8ad5-982a222f34b8/King+Richard+II.jpg This week in history - October 27th - November 2nd - Richard II married 6-year old Isabella of Valois for a political alliance 1396 - King Richard II married Isabella of Valois. He was 29 years old and she was only 6 years. Their marriage was made for a political alliance with France and King Richard treated Isabella as if she was his daughter. He died four years later leaving Isabella a widow at the age of 10 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/ed03db94-3b6e-4495-bd5f-2a0e9b474ed3/William+Shakespeare.jpg This week in history - October 27th - November 2nd - Shakespeare’s plays premiere 7 years apart On this day, seven years apart, two of William Shakespeare’s plays were first shown at the Royal Banqueting House in Whitehall, London, to an audience which included King James VI & I. 1604 - Othello - a play about an African General who is duped into believing his Italian wife is betraying him. Eventually Othello kills his wife and then commits suicide when he finds out that she was faithful the entire time. 1611 - The Tempest - a play about a storm, an island, a shipwreck, and magic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/058b321f-d8e6-47d5-90e1-7fa209ae38f5/King+Edward+V.jpg This week in history - October 27th - November 2nd - Edward V was born in Westminster Abbey 1470 - King Edward V of England was born in the safety of Westminster Abbey whilst his dad was seeking sanctuary abroad. He was the son of King Edward IV and at the age of 12 years he was declared king on the death of his father. Edward V reigned for just over two months before Parliament declared him to be an illegitimate son and therefore not eligible to be king. His uncle Richard was proclaimed King Richard III and Edward was sent to the Tower of London with his brother for safety. The two boys disappeared shortly afterwards, possibly murdered; their story has become known as the Princes in the Tower. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/october-20th-26th monthly 0.5 2025-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/593d1a91-6ef9-415b-b46c-ff493f7099d9/King+George+I.jpg This week in history - October 20th - 26th - Coronation of King George I 1714 - George Ludwig of Hanover was crowned King George I of Great Britain in Westminster Abbey. His reign brought an end to the Stuart period and the beginning of the Georgian period; a time in English history when the country was ruled by kings named George. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/92d08a88-48de-426c-9ec5-dd843d112546/Florence+Nightingale.jpg This week in history - October 20th - 26th - Florence Nightingale set off for Crimea 1854 - Florence Nightingale left London to tend to the wounded soldiers in the Crimean War. She was given the nickname of ‘the lady with the lamp’ by the men she nursed there because she continued to tend to them by lamplight during the night. Florence Nightingale also improved conditions of the hospital and is the founder of modern nursing in Britain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/f4f1ca20-83b6-445d-83ae-0f2f6603a6a4/King%2BCharles%2BI.jpg This week in history - October 20th - 26th - Charles I defeated the Parliamentarians but failed to get London 1642 - The Battle of Edgehill took place in Warwickshire at the beginning of the English Civil War. King Charles I and his army beat the Parliamentarian forces but failed to get to London first. Instead, Charles I and his army took control of the towns of Banbury and Brentford first which allowed his opponents, the Parliamentarians to reach London and increase their support and forces in the capital city. King Charles I was forced to make Oxford the centre of his headquarters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/c2648112-76ca-4f1e-bee5-598aafb2ffd0/Jane%2BSeymour.jpg This week in history - October 20th - 26th - Jane Seymour, beloved wife of Henry VIII, died 1537 - Jane Seymour, the third wife of King Henry VIII, died just days after giving birth to Henry’s much wanted son Prince Edward. King Henry was left distraught follwoing her death. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/78398325-14f6-4b28-9e41-f4b6967751e2/Rosa%2BParks.jpg This week in history - October 20th - 26th - Civil rights activist died aged 92 2005 - Rosa Parks, the American civil rights activist, died aged 92 years. In December 1955 Rosa had refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Alabama, U.S.A.; she was arrested for doing this. The event sparked a boycott of the bus company which eventually led to a change in the law. The law had previously allowed segregated seating on buses depending on the colour of your skin, but was changed to allow people of all skin colours to sit in any seat on public trasnsport. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/2d5f7ea3-cd3d-4053-9759-2a27b9aab0ba/King+Henry+V.jpg This week in history - October 20th - 26th - Henry V victorious at Agincourt 1415 - King Henry V defeated the French at the Battle of Agincourt. Despite being heavily outnumbered, King Henry and his army managed to overcome all odds and win. The French army suffered heavy losses, including the majority of its nobility, the English army on the otherhand suffered few fatalities. The main weapon used by the English in this battle was the longbow; its archers could shoot up to 15 arrows a minute - that’s one every four seconds. Reports written at the time say the sky turned dark with the number of arrows being rained down upon the French army. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/5fbe526f-86aa-4302-afe8-2ba79fe2c100/King+George+II.jpg This week in history - October 20th - 26th - King of England died on the toilet 1760 - King George II of Great Britain died leaving his grandson to become King George III. It is rumoured that he died whilst sitting on the toilet drinking his favourite cup of hot chocolate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/f3249343-9595-4ae0-b36f-d0b648178e63/King%2BAlfred.jpg This week in history - October 20th - 26th - King Alfred the Great died 899 - King Alfred the Great died. He was an Anglo-Saxon king of Wessex, a kingdom that was situated in the south of England. During his reign he defeated the Vikings, and to try and stop further battles, and loss of life cauased by their invasions, he made peace with the Vikings and gave them some land in England to call their own. The Viking part of England became known as Danelaw. King Alfred also ordered the translation of many books from Latin into English. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/l99jb38eve3oz3h1rbewa6ahhhwaid monthly 0.5 2025-10-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1624119200609-BWNXK9MJ1LSIU6ZPNLWP/Claudius.jpg This week in history - October 13th - 19th - Death by mushroom 54CE - Claudius, the Roman Emperor died after eating poisonous mushrooms. He is the Roman Emperor who managed to conquer Britain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/c5752877-03a5-4097-9b6a-0c1583ec20a0/King+Henry+IV.jpg This week in history - October 13th - 19th - Coronation of King Henry IV 1399 - Henry Bolingbroke was crowned King Henry IV of England at Westminster Abbey after deposing his cousin King Richard II. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/7cfc4a6f-adbd-4166-8d6b-a79d0d9664c7/Magaret+Thatcher..jpg This week in history - October 13th - 19th - First female Prime Minister of the UK was born 1925 - Margaret Thatcher was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire England. She was the first female British Prime Minister. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/be7a1a94-b9f3-4c9c-a7e1-e31e928d6af2/King+Harold+II.jpg This week in history - October 13th - 19th - King Harold was killed at the Battle of Hastings 1066 - The Battle of Hastings took place on the south coast of England between William Duke of Normandy and King Harold II of England. King Harold, also known as Harold Godwinson, was once again defending his throne because less than three weeks before, on 25th September, he had marched his army 185 miles north to fight off King Harald Hardrada of Norway. Now he faced another attack, this time at the other end of the country. William of Normandy believed he was the rightful king of England because King Edward the Confessor (the king before Harold) had promised William the English crown and Harold Godwinson had sworn an oath to support William in this. William was obviously a little annoyed that Harold had taken the throne and was now King Harold II of England, when he had promised to help William become King of England. The battle was closely fought and lasted most of the day but eventually William and his army won when King Harold was killed. Legend has it that he was killed by an arrow to his eye as depicted in the Bayeaux Tapestry. William was crowned King of England on Christmas Day and become known as William the Conqueror. The Battle of Hastings has been famously depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry which is nearly 70 metres long. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/d188d578-ec09-426a-b939-402ead3a4314/Robert+the+Bruce.jpg This week in history - October 13th - 19th - Battle of Byland - Bruce victorious 1322 - During the Scottish Wars of Independence Robert the Bruce defeated King Edward II at the Battle of Byland forcing King Edward II to accept Scottish Independence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/44fc0ca0-bbcf-4f1e-b3dc-9cdb2742edeb/Mary%2BQueen%2Bof%2BScots.jpg This week in history - October 13th - 19th - Mary Queen of Scots was put on trial 1586 - The trial of Mary Queen of Scots began at Fotheringhay Castle in Northamptonshire. Mary was being tried on the charges of conspiracy to assassinate her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I of England. The trial lasted two days and Mary was found guilty, but sentencing was delayed for as long as possible on the orders of Queen Elizabeth I. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/7fb28277-49e2-452a-b222-450f97bce738/King+James+II+and+VII.jpg This week in history - October 13th - 19th - King James VII & II was born 1633 - King James VII and II was born in St James’s Palace in London. He was the second son of King Charles I and became King of England when his older brother King Charles II died. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1633443653720-QZM28F3Y850VBIP9094L/Houses+of+Parliament.jpg This week in history - October 13th - 19th - Parliament burnt to the ground 1834 - A huge fire broke out in the Palace of Westminster destroying both Houses of Parliament and most of the buildings on site. The fire was captured in paintings by the artist J.M.W. Turner who was an eyewitness of the event. The building we know today was designed by Charles Barry and took more than 30 years to build. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/29dc5c1e-0537-42de-b6ab-8826f96418ee/King+Charles+II.jpg This week in history - October 13th - 19th - King Charles II got his revenge 1660 - Four of the ‘59 Regicides’, the men who signed the death warrant for King Charles I of England, were hanged, drawn, and quartered at Charing Cross in London for treason. Following the English Civil War which resulted in the execution of King Charles I, England was once again under the rule of a king. Charles’s son, King Charles II was now in power and he wanted the men who had signed his father’s death warrant to be punished for their treasonous act. Executions had begun on 13th October and by 17th October four had already been tried and executed, the next four men on the list now knew exactly what fate had in store for them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/66a09467-16ad-46a5-a7ec-98d8df863c97/King+Edmund+Ironside.jpg This week in history - October 13th - 19th - The Battle of Assandun - Edmund Ironside lost the battle, and most of England, to King Canute 1016 - The Anglo-Saxons and Vikings faced each other on the battlefield again at the Battle of Assandun. King Edmund Ironside of England was defeated by King Canute of Denmark. After the battle it was agreed that Edmund could keep Wessex, a small part of his kingdom, but King Canute would rule the rest of England. They agreed that whoever died first would become King of all the country, Edmund died a month later in suspicious circumstances and Canute became king of all England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/04ec9252-69d8-489a-a031-22aa0d7d4d6d/King+John.jpg This week in history - October 13th - 19th - King John died shortly after losing the crown Jewels 1216 - King John of England died leaving the throne to his nine-year-old son who became King Henry III. A few days before he died, King John managed to lose the crown jewels in The Wash which is a large river estuary on the east coast of England. The jewels have never been found. King John is most famous for signing the Magna Carta which is a legal document that made the king subject to the rule of law. This meant that he had to obey the law and couldn’t just do as he pleased. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/october-6th-12th monthly 0.5 2025-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/680e37ac-d7e4-473d-a641-9dd6fadefd05/Edith+Cavell.jpg This week in history - October 6th - 12th - Red Cross nurse sentenced to death 1915 - During World War I, Edith Cavell, an English nurse, was found guilty and sentenced to death by a German Court Martial. Edith had been working as a nurse at a Red Cross hospital in Belgium which was occupied by German forces at the time. She treated all wounded soldiers who were admitted to the hospital; both German and Allied. At the same time as nursing she was also running an underground network that was helping Allied soldiers escape to safety, this fact had been discovered by the German Army. Edith was executed by firing squad five days later. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/32338211-ebeb-45ba-bbf4-430b1f5ed049/Captin+James+Cook.jpg This week in history - October 6th - 12th - Captain Cook arrived in New Zealand 1769 - Captain Cook landed in Poverty Bay in New Zealand. The landing and relationship with the native Maoris did not go as smoothly as Cook had hoped and misunderstandings on both sides led to the deaths of several Maoris. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1633005213387-2PWLTL2P3ND0KPQSEV3F/Malala+Yousafzai.jpg This week in history - October 6th - 12th - Shot for going to school 2012 - At the age of 15 years, Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman as she tried to go to school in Pakistan. Luckily Malala survived the near fatal bullet wound. She had been targeted by the Taliban for speaking publicly about the rights of girls to learn in schools. When she was 17 years old, Malala became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 for her charity work - fighting to give every girl around the world the right to an education and the freedom to a future of her own choosing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/f142b8c9-85b3-4b4a-baa0-3f0f20d1f306/Emmeline+Pankhurst.jpg This week in history - October 6th - 12th - Women’s Social and Political Union formed 1903 - Emmeline Pankhurst formed the Women’s Social and Political Union to fight for women’s rights in Britain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/51e62022-8402-4e0a-9848-8465d6da15e1/King+Henry+VIII.jpg This week in history - October 6th - 12th - King Henry VIII declared Defender of the Faith 1521 - Pope Leo X gave the title of ‘Defender of the Faith’ to King Henry VIII as an award for his book supporting the Catholic faith. Although this title was taken away by the Pope when Henry divorced Catherine of Aragon and broke away from the Roman Church, the British Parliament restored the title to the monarchy in 1544. Defender of the Faith is ‘Fidei Defensor’ in Latin, and the letters FD have been regularly used on British coins since the time of King George I. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/5fbe526f-86aa-4302-afe8-2ba79fe2c100/King+George+II.jpg This week in history - October 6th - 12th - King George II was crowned at Westminster Abbey 1727 - King George II was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey. His wife was crowned Queen Caroline by his side. The composer Handel was commissioned to create musical anthems for the coronation; one of them, ‘Zadok the Priest’ has been performed at every coronation of an English monarch ever since. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/503a65b8-3a85-4e0d-8f7a-f816de421251/King+Edward+VI.jpg This week in history - October 6th - 12th - A baby boy was born to King Henry VIII and Jane Seymour 1537 - Edward VI was born to King Henry VIII and his third wife, Jane Seymour. Sadly Jane died days after giving birth to the future king. Edward became king at the age of nine years when his father King Henry VIII died, he was the first Protestant king of England. Unfortunately, Edward did not live long and died when he was fifteen years old. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/september-29th-october-5th monthly 0.5 2025-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1632224754875-VLE3Y2VYSOE2RUFQJRMD/Policeman.jpg This week in history - September 29th - October 5th - Bobbies started walking the beat 1829 - The first units of the Metropolitan Police patrolled the streets of London. They became London’s first regular police force with the police officers becoming known as ‘Bobbies’ or ‘Peelers’ after its founder Sir Robert Peel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/9fff0e9a-c309-49d5-8ad5-982a222f34b8/King+Richard+II.jpg This week in history - September 29th - October 5th - King RIchard II forced to abdicate 1399 - King Richard II of England, abdicated the throne in favour of his cousin, Henry Bolingbroke. Richard had been king since the age of ten and didn’t want to abdicate, but was forced to do so by Henry who was rebelling against King Richard’s rule and his seizure of Henry’s father’s lands and treasures. These lands and treasures should have been given back to Henry when his dad, John of Gaunt, died but the king changed his mind and decided to keep them for himself. Bolingbroke gained the support of many nobles who were also angry with the king. They helped Henry gain power and capture Richard II. When the king abdicated, Henry was crowned King Henry IV. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/dee28c7c-7935-483c-a2c9-5e5777c1e64e/King%2BEadwig.jpg This week in history - September 29th - October 5th - King Eadwig died 59 - King Eadwig of England died at the age of about 19 years. He became king at the age of 15 years when his uncle, King Eadred, died. During his reign the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Northumbria and Mercia revolted against him and declared his brother Edgar to be their king. King Edgar I became king of all England upon Eadwig’s death. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/082741e1-0f83-4c50-8c66-f5e8fbc3aa5b/King+Henry+III.jpg This week in history - September 29th - October 5th - King Henry III was born 1207 - King Henry III was born in Winchester Castle and became king at the age of only nine years. He was the son of King John, the king who had been forced to sign the Magna Carta and who lost the crown jewels in The Wash. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/45069a68-9d9e-482d-b163-c9f7889d7bef/Queen%2BMary%2BI.jpg This week in history - September 29th - October 5th - Coronation of Queen Mary I 1553 - Queen Mary I was crowned at Westminster Abbey. She was the daughter of Henry VIII and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon. Mary was given the nickname Bloody Mary for her persecution of Protestants; she did not like them, she didn’t agree with their beliefs, she and reinstated Catholicism as the religion of England during her reign. Mary ordered the death, by burning, of about 300 Protestants for their religious beliefs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/8ce9d806-ad56-47ba-a47b-78fa92e62bc4/King+Richard+III.jpg This week in history - September 29th - October 5th - Birth of King Richard III 1452 - King Richard III was born in Fotheringhay Castle in Northamptonshire. He became king after usurping his young nephew, Edward V. Richard III was violently killed when he was 32 years old at the Battle of Bosworth Field. This battle brought an end to the Wars of the Roses and saw the beginning of the Tudor period. Legend says that Richard’s crown was found in a bush and placed on the victor's head. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1632226069126-ZPUFOLMW5HQXRL0B4E5R/Rugby%2BBall.jpg This week in history - September 29th - October 5th - First rugby match to be played at Twickenham 1909 - The first rugby match to be played at Twickenham took place between Harlequins and Richmond, the final score was 14-10. The stadium was built on an area that was previously used as a market garden for growing cabbages but is now home to England’s International Rugby Team. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1624118857020-ZPW50RG74VQSR94NPFKV/London+Underground.png This week in history - September 29th - October 5th - First escalator on the Underground began working 1911 - The first escalator on the London Underground began service at Earl’s Court Station. It connected the Piccadilly Line and District Line platforms and made it easier for passengers to move between the platforms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/9aa8d7d9-6bb0-4733-98e7-df520870b452/Steve+Jobs.jpg This week in history - September 29th - October 5th - Steve Jobs the co-founder of Apple died 2011 - Steve Jobs the co-founder of Apple died after a long battle with cancer. He set up Apple Computers in his parents’ garage with his friend Steve Wozniak; their company went on to become the successful computer giant that it is today. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/september-22nd-28th monthly 0.5 2025-09-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1631797451187-SB7I3S1RELSGT9LRBRH0/Anne+of+Cleves.jpg This week in history - September 22nd - 28th - 1515 - Anne of Cleves was born 1515 – Anne of Cleves was born, she was Henry VIII’s fourth wife. Their marriage was chosen to form a political alliance and had been agreed to before they had even met. Unfortunately, upon meeting Anne, Henry decided that he did not find her attractive and did not want to marry her, but it was too late to back out and cancel the wedding. Luckily, Henry VIII was now Head of the Church of England and could divorce Anne without getting permission from the Pope. Their marriage lasted just a short while and within six months of being at the Royal Court she was asked to leave. Anne possibly had the last laugh, unlike the other wives she was awarded a generous allowance and given estates to live in, she was also invited to Court for special events such as Christmas. Anne of Cleves is the only one of Henry VIII’s wives to be buried at Westminster Abbey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/ec5d54cd-dfa6-4a3f-a74c-3802fcf3a91d/Robert+Walpole.jpg This week in history - September 22nd - 28th - 1735 - The first Prime Minister moved into 10 Downing Street 1735 – Robert Walpole became the first Prime Minister to live at 10 Downing Street. The property was a gift from King George II but instead of accepting this personal gift, Robert Walpole asked the king to make it the official residence of the British Prime Minister to be passed on with each leadership. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/48984545-fb0c-4f59-9fec-2c6f64602c36/King+George+III.jpg This week in history - September 22nd - 28th - 1751 - George III was crowned King 1761 – King George III of England was crowned at Westminster Abbey. His wife was crowned Queen Charlotte alongside him. Their procession started out from St James’s Palace at 11:00am where they were carried in sedan chairs along the route to the Abbey. The procession was so long that the coronation ceremony didn’t start until 3:30pm; the two buildings are only a mile apart. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/33c4dc12-cbb6-4837-8255-e40021b30891/Michael%2BFaraday.jpg This week in history - September 22nd - 28th - 1791 - Famous scientist, Michael Faraday, was born in Surrey 1791 – Michael Faraday the English scientist who discovered electromagnetic induction and invented the electric motor was born in Surrey, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1631797641650-YZIVBUL6W766IEXGZGBS/Augustus+Caesar+%28Octavius%29.jpg This week in history - September 22nd - 28th - 63 BCE - The first Emperor of Rome was born 63BCE – Augustus Caesar was born in Rome. He was the great-nephew and adopted son of Julius Caesar who went on to become the first Emperor of Rome. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/be7a1a94-b9f3-4c9c-a7e1-e31e928d6af2/King+Harold+II.jpg This week in history - September 22nd - 28th - 1066 - King Harold II victorious at Stamford Bridge 1066 – The Battle of Stamford Bridge took place between King Harold (Godwinson) II of England and an invading army of vikings led by a contender to the English throne, King Harald (Hardrada) III of Norway,. Hardrada was accompanied by the King of England’s brother Tostig. Despite being exhausted from their 185-mile march north, covering the distance in just four days, King Harold II and his army easily defeated the Vikings. The invading army was taken completely by surprise because they did not expect King Harold and his army to march north and attack. In the fierce fighting that followed, both King Harald Hardrada III, and his accomplice Tostig, were killed. It was reported that of the 300 enemy ships that arrived on the shores carrying the Vikings, only 24 were needed to take the survivors back to Norway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/8cacaef5-9e67-4c09-9c6a-dddd7ffd7349/Sir+Francis+Drake.jpg This week in history - September 22nd - 28th - 1580 - Francis Drake returned to England after circumnavigating the globe 1580 – Sir Francis Drake returned to Portsmouth having become the first Englishman to circumnavigate, or sail all the way around, the world. He had set out three years earlier with the permission of Queen Elizabeth I to explore the west coast of the Americas and at the same time to cause havoc to Spanish ships along the way. (England and Spain were not friendly at the time.) Sir Francis Drake took this permission to devote his voyage to acts of piracy against all the Spanish ships he encountered. When he returned to England aboard his ship, The Golden Hind, it was laden with treasures and spices from around the globe. When the ship was moored on the river Thames in London, Queen Elizabeth I went aboard the ship to greet Drake and bestow a knighthood him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1632224185236-47OS5V5VKSUEQVBWDASU/Egyptian+Hieroglyphs.png This week in history - September 22nd - 28th - 1822 - Egyptian heiroglyphs were decoded 1822 – Egyptian hieroglyphs were deciphered by Jean-Francois Champollion, a French scholar, by using the Rosetta Stone. Champollion could already speak Greek and Coptic the two other languages inscribed on the stone and after years of research and study he finally managed to work out that the hieroglyphs were not just pictures but phonetic sounds. The inscription written on the Rosetta Stone is a decree passed by a council of priests affirming Ptolemy V as pharaoh on the first anniversary of his coronation. The Rosetta Stone is on display in the British Museum in London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/55031b81-4709-44b3-a4e6-bdf20a8fc685/George+Stephenson.jpg This week in history - September 22nd - 28th - 1825 - The first passenger train takes a trip 1825 – George Stephenson’s locomotive No.1 became the first steam locomotive to carry passengers along the first railway track to operate both freight and passengers. - the Stockton-Darlington Railway. Stephenson drove his train at a speed of 15 miles per hour pulling wagons carrying 450 passengers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/5c494730-9c60-46c7-9f31-025430218976/William+the+Conqueror.jpg This week in history - September 22nd - 28th - 1066 - William landed in England, ready to Conquer 1066 - William, Duke of Normandy landed with about 700 ships at Pevensey Bay on the south coast of England to make his claim on the English throne. He immediately started to build a fortification, to shelter his army, within the walls of the Roman fort which once stood there. The next day he marched along the coast to Hastings and waited for King Harold II to arrive from his recent victory against the Vikings at Stamford Bridge near the city of York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/8cec426b-b0d1-4238-bfb7-8fbda4b94ff3/King+Henry+I.jpg This week in history - September 22nd - 28th - 1106 - King Henry I victorious at Tinchebray 1106 - King Henry I (son of William the Conqueror) defeated his own brother, Robert Curthose, at the Battle of Tinchebray in Normandy. Robert believed that he had more right to the English throne than Henry because he was the older brother. The argument between the two brothes began when Richard believed Henry had something to do with the suspicious death of their other brother William Rufus. who had been King of England when he died in a hunting accident in the New Forest. Suspicions arose as to whether it was an accident or not when Henry had raced to claim the throne instead of seeing to his dying brother. Robert was captured and held prisoner until he died in 1134. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/25aadfa1-5bca-4936-b8ca-bdeb9973a237/Alexander%2BFleming.jpg This week in history - September 22nd - 28th - 1928 - Penicillin was discovered by accident 1928 - Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin. He had accidentally left an uncovered petri dish containing bacteria by an open window before going away on summer break. Upon returning to the laboratory Alexander noticed that the dish had became contaminated with mould spores, and more importantly that the bacteria in the dish near to the mould was dying. He isolated the mould and tested it further, finding it could kill a number of different bacteria. He called the mould - penicillin. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/september-15th-21st monthly 0.5 2025-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/55031b81-4709-44b3-a4e6-bdf20a8fc685/George+Stephenson.jpg This week in history - September 15th - 21st - 1830 -George Stephenson’s Manchester Liverpool railway opened 1830 - The Manchester and Liverpool Railway, designed and built by George Stephenson, was opened. It was the first inter-city railway designed to transport both passengers and goods between Manchester and Liverpool. During the opening ceremony William Huskisson an MP was fatally wounded whilst crossing the track to shake hands with the Prime Minister, the Duke of Wellington. He was the first person to be killed by a train. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/2d5f7ea3-cd3d-4053-9759-2a27b9aab0ba/King+Henry+V.jpg This week in history - September 15th - 21st - 1386/7 -Henry V was born 1386 or 87 - King Henry V was born in Monmouth, Wales. He became king when he was about 25 years old after his father King Henry IV died. Henry V is best known for defeating the French at the Battle of Agincourt. Did you know that when he was 16 years old he was hit in the face by an arrow which lodged itself 6 inches (15cm) into his skull and had to be removed by surgeons on the battlefield? They made special tongs to remove the arrowhead from the young warrior prince without the use of an anaesthetic. The wound left an ugly scar which is why the King’s portraits are all of his profile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/7fb28277-49e2-452a-b222-450f97bce738/King+James+II+and+VII.jpg This week in history - September 15th - 21st - 1701 - King James VII & II died in exile 1701 - King James VII & II died whilst in exile in France. He had become King of England and Scotland on the death of his brother King Charles II but because of James’s strong Catholic beliefs the English Protestant government asked his daughter Mary and her husband William to take the throne from him. King James VII & II fled to France after his army also turned against him in favour of William and Mary. His son James Francis Edward Stuart became the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/fab3f00c-177a-4297-bfdf-439ee6da5079/Bonnie+Prince+Charlie.jpg This week in history - September 15th - 21st - 1745 -Bonnie Prince Charlie arrived in Edinburgh 1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie arrived in Edinburgh to cheering crowds and declared his father to be the rightful King of Scotland. His father was James Francis Edward Stuart, son of the deposed King James VII & II. Unable to capture Edinburgh Castle, Bonnie Prince Charlie set up his court at the Palace of Holyroodhouse. His supporters were called Jacobites after Jacobus, the Latin name for James. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1631112698695-AJWYOFIRSYLFM65J97KA/Harriet%2BTubman.jpg This week in history - September 15th - 21st - 1849 -Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery 1849 - Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery in America with two of her brothers. After her escape she helped others gain their freedom through the Underground Railroad which was a system of safe houses across America that helped slaves escape to freedom. Harriet went on to become a leading abolitionist, fighting against slavery, and a spy for the Union Army during the American Civil War. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/c553e09e-2941-44bc-864a-010c422a5c42/Witold%2BPilecki.jpg This week in history - September 15th - 21st - 1940 - Witold Pilecki got himself arrested on purpose 1940 - Witold Pilecki, a Polish soldier and resistance fighter, got himself intentionally arrested by Nazi soldiers. He hoped to be sent to Auschwitz concentration camp so that he could smuggle out information to the Resistance during World War II. He was not prepared for the brutality that he witnessed and endured. He managed to escape in 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/be7a1a94-b9f3-4c9c-a7e1-e31e928d6af2/King+Harold+II.jpg This week in history - September 15th - 21st - 1066 - Battle of Fulford 1066 - At the Battle of Fulford the Saxon Earls, Edwin and Morcar, were defeated by King Harald III of Norway (Harald Hardrada). The Saxon Earls were fighting on behalf King Harold II of England (Harold Godwinson). Their defeat meant that King Harold II who was waiting on the south coast in anticipation of an invasion by William Duke of Normandy, had to march north to battle the Norwegian king who had taken hold of the city of York. King Harold II and his army marched 185 miles north within four days. They battled and defeated the Norwegian invaders and then had to march back south to defend England from the French invasion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/fab3f00c-177a-4297-bfdf-439ee6da5079/Bonnie+Prince+Charlie.jpg This week in history - September 15th - 21st - 1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie victorious at Preston Pans 1745 – At the Battle of Preston Pans the British army were beaten by Bonnie Prince Charlie during the Jacobite Rebellion. The two sides were of about equal size with around 2,000 soldiers each, but the Scots easily beat the English, killing over 300 and capturing 1,400 men. Their own losses were just 30 men killed and 70 wounded. Bonnie Prince Charlie now had control of Scotland with just Edinburgh Castle, Stirling Castle and three forts (William, Augustus and George) in the hands of the English. It would not be long before he marched south and into England. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/september-8th-14th monthly 0.5 2025-09-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/ba9d3e32-7f7f-4063-a504-a1a2fdf7464b/King%2BRichard%2BI.jpg This week in history - September 8th - 14th - Richard the Lionheart was born 1157 - King Richard I of England, was born in Oxford, England. He was also known as Richard the Lionheart and spent most of his reign abroad living in his lands in France or fighting in the Crusades (religious battles between Christians, Muslims and Jews in the Holy Land now known as Israel, Palestine, and parts of Jordan, Lebanon and Syria) His parents were King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/b82e9205-bd68-4208-8d1b-c3e65095025b/King+William+IV.jpg This week in history - September 8th - 14th - William IV was crowned King 1831 - King William IV was crowned King of Great Britain at Westminster Abbey in London. He insisted on a simple coronation in contrast to his brother’s expensive and lavish coronation which had cost a small fortune. William’s thriftiness pleased Parliament. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/65990bb5-008a-42c7-819c-5611a6b600a4/Queen+ELizabeth+II.jpg This week in history - September 8th - 14th - Death of Queen Elizabeth II 2022 – Queen Elizabeth II died after reigning for 70 years 7 months and 2 days. She is the longest reigning British monarch and at the time of her death was the second longest reigning monarch in world history. Upon her death her eldest child, Prince Charles, became King Charles III. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/5c494730-9c60-46c7-9f31-025430218976/William+the+Conqueror.jpg This week in history - September 8th - 14th - William the Conqueror died 1087 - William the Conqueror, the first Norman king of England died of injuries after falling from his horse. He is famous for winning the crown of England from King Harold at the Battle of Hastings, for ordering the construction of the Tower of London, and for the Domesday Book which is a book containing the names of all the people living in England at that time including details of their wealth and belongings. He is also famous for a gruesome piece of history - when trying to squeeze him into his coffin, the king’s stomach exploded letting out such a foul smell that the funeral was rushed through so that everyone could leave the chapel as quickly as possible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/44fc0ca0-bbcf-4f1e-b3dc-9cdb2742edeb/Mary%2BQueen%2Bof%2BScots.jpg This week in history - September 8th - 14th - Mary was crowned Queen of Scots 1543 - Mary Queen of Scots was crowned Queen of Scotland, she was just nine months old. Her father, King James V, had died a week after she was born. Mary’s coronation took place in Stirling Castle and as she was too young to rule a country, her mother Mary of Guise became Regent, ruling in the young queen’s name. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/3a83aa85-462c-4e47-a0cb-aef6462a330c/King+Charles+III.jpg This week in history - September 8th - 14th - Charles III proclaimed King 2022 – King Charles III was officially proclaimed King at St James’s Palace in London. At the age of 73 he is the oldest person to inherit the British throne, the previous holder of this title was King William IV who was 64 years old when he ascended the throne. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1b2b9a32-8ae4-4f15-8db8-0d3f35aea8fe/William+Wallace.jpg This week in history - September 8th - 14th - William Wallace victorious at Stirling Bridge 1297 - William Wallace defeated the English at the Battle of Stirling Bridge. The battle was part of the Wars of Independence whereby Scotland tried to reclaim control of their country from King Edward I of England. Edward I had abused his position of power to gain control of Scotland following the death of both its King Alexander III, and his young heir, Queen Margaret, Maid of Norway who was Alexander’s granddaughter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/2f5bd5c5-13b3-472c-95b1-5bcdee3f4996/Oliver+Cromwell.jpg This week in history - September 8th - 14th - Cromwell ordered massacre of thousands 1649 - Oliver Cromwell ordered the killing of 3,000 royalists at the Massacre of Drogheda in Ireland. Oliver Cromwell had arrived in Ireland to quash the Royalist rebellion that had broken out there in reaction to the new English Republic. Having breached the Irish defences at the town of Drogheda, the English forces went on to slaughter thousands of Irish Royalists which included priests and monks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/26325538-7169-47ac-b1bd-bc5978e9ae2a/King+James+I+and+VI.jpg This week in history - September 8th - 14th - King James VI & I goes under the Thames onboard the first submarine 1624 - The first submarine was demonstrated in London on the River Thames in front of a crowd of about 3,000 spectators. King James VI and I was one of the first passengers invited along for the ride in the submarine. The vessel had been designed by Cornelis Drebbel, a Dutch inventor. It was made of a wooden frame covered in pigskin and capable of carrying 16 passengers. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/september-1st-7th monthly 0.5 2025-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/2f5bd5c5-13b3-472c-95b1-5bcdee3f4996/Oliver+Cromwell.jpg This week in history - September 1st - 7th - A busy day for Oliver Cromwell 1650 - English forces defeated Scottish forces at the Battle of Dunbar. King Charles I had been beheaded in 1649 and Oliver Cromwell was now Lord Protector of England, whilst England accepted Cromwell as their leader, the other countries under England’s rule refused to accept Cromwell as their leader. Instead they acknowledged King Charles II (the late King Charles I’s son) as their rightful ruler. The Battle of Dunbar was fought between English forces led by Cromwell and Scottish forces led by David Leslie in an attempt to bring Scotland under English rule. The Scottish defeat saw Scotland under English occupation and rule for ten years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/20103f76-074c-4f06-a332-994a19b451f5/King+Alexander+III.jpg This week in history - September 1st - 7th - King Alexander III was born 1241 - King Alexander III was born in Roxburgh Castle, Scotland. He became king when he was only seven years old and had a very eventful reign. He married Princess Margaret, daughter of King Henry III of England, when he was only ten years old. He gained control of the Western Isles and the Isle of Man, taking them back from Norway. Sadly, his wife and children all died before him, so when he died he left no direct heir to the throne. His closest relative was his three-year-old granddaughter, Margaret the Maid of Norway. His death followed by the early death of his granddaughter left Scotland without a monarch, this eventually led to the Wars of Independence with England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/0f8d1f38-c119-4849-8c8c-836f7d923aa9/Katherine+Parr.jpg This week in history - September 1st - 7th - Last wife of Henry VIII died 1548 - Catherine Parr, 6th wife of Henry VIII died. Catherine had survived Henry after his death and went on to marry her fourth husband, Thomas Seymour. She became pregnant with her first child with Thomas but died shortly after giving birth to a daughter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/5d6989ed-a7c5-4ce0-a7c4-782947b0fbc4/Douglas+Bader.jpg This week in history - September 1st - 7th - Fighter pilot and amputee Douglas Bader died 1982 - Douglas Bader, the famous RAF fighter pilot died. Bader’s legs were amputated following an aircraft crash near Reading in 1931. Despite demonstrating that he could meet the RAF’s physical requirements on his new artificial legs he was discharged from the Air Force in 1933. At the outbreak of World War II, he undertook a refresher course for the RAF and became a fighter pilot. In 1941 he was shot down over German territory and taken as a prisoner of war. After attempting to escape, he was taken to Colditz Castle, a prisoner of war camp which was supposed to be escape-proof. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/29dc5c1e-0537-42de-b6ab-8826f96418ee/King+Charles+II.jpg This week in history - September 1st - 7th - King Charles II hid in an oak tree 1651 - King Charles II hid in an oak tree to escape from Roundheads (Parliamentarians) after losing at the Battle of Worcester. Charles II had been on the run for three days. When night came, the king climbed down from the tree, and hid in a priest hole of Boscobel House overnight before making his way towards Bristol and then France in the October. (A priest hole is a hiding place made for Catholic priests to hide in during times of Catholic persecution.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/862d7f0d-737e-4a21-a5ec-d74cd9519b07/Queen+Elizabeth+I.jpg This week in history - September 1st - 7th - Another daughter for Henry VIII 1533 - Queen Elizabeth I was born in Greenwich, London. Her parents were Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Despite being female, she became one of the most powerful monarchs of her time. She never married and was nicknamed the Virgin Queen because she never had any children. Elizabeth I was the last of the Tudor monarchs and the time of her reign has become known as the Elizabethan Age. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/august-25th-31st monthly 0.5 2025-08-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1d1ed61f-489a-4e4c-9089-557bd69c66cd/Galileo.jpg This week in history - August 25th - 31st - Galileo demonstrated how to observe the planets using a telescope 1609 - Galilei Galileo demonstrated his first telescope to lawmakers in Venice. His telescopes helped him to observe the other planets and led him to agree with Nicolaus Copernicus that the earth did indeed revolve around the sun. Galileo spent the last ten years of his life under house arrest because his views of the universe differed to those of the Catholic Church. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/32338211-ebeb-45ba-bbf4-430b1f5ed049/Captin+James+Cook.jpg This week in history - August 25th - 31st - Captain Cook left England in search of Australia 1768 - Captain James Cook left Plymouth, England on his first voyage aboard his ship the Endeavour. He was headed for the Pacific Ocean to observe the planetary transit of Venus and to secretly search for a large southern continent - now known as Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/33c4dc12-cbb6-4837-8255-e40021b30891/Michael%2BFaraday.jpg This week in history - August 25th - 31st - Michael Faraday died 1867 - Michael Faraday died at Hampton Court where he had been given rooms to live in recognition of his contribution to science. He was an English scientist whose discoveries and inventions formed the foundation of electric motor technology. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/08a17b5a-82ea-4c05-ab51-9abf91aec38c/King+Edward+III.jpg This week in history - August 25th - 31st - King Edward III victorious at Crecy 1346 - King Edward III of England defeated King Philip VI of France in an early battle of the Hundred Years War at the Battle of Crecy in Northern France. Edward was intent on exerting his claim to the French throne via his mother, Isabella of France. Positioning his troops in a defensive formation, Edward’s heavily outnumbered English soldiers easily defeated the French by using their longbows to rain down arrows on each and every cavalry charge the French sent to attack. By the end of the day Edward III could number his fallen at around 300 men compared to around 14,000 French. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/ec5d54cd-dfa6-4a3f-a74c-3802fcf3a91d/Robert+Walpole.jpg This week in history - August 25th - 31st - Britain’s first Prime Minister was born 1676 - Robert Walpole, the first British Prime Minister, was born in Norfolk, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1629466879091-F8D49M28NMAR66T2S650/volcano.jpg This week in history - August 25th - 31st - Krakatoa erupted causing chaos 1883 - The volcano Krakatoa erupted on the island of Rakata near Sumatra, Indonesia. The eruption could be heard 2,200 miles away in Australia. The blast created 120-foot-high tsunamis (36 metres) which killed 36,000 people on the nearby islands of Java and Sumatra. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1629467101127-O7A9G3C8KLRWXUZHV8X9/Guinness%2BBook%2Bof%2BRecords.jpg This week in history - August 25th - 31st - Are you a record breaker? 1955 - The Guinness Book of Records was first published in Great Britain. It was an immediate success and has continued to be a best seller every year. Are you in the Guinness Book of Records? What is your record? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/f4f1ca20-83b6-445d-83ae-0f2f6603a6a4/King%2BCharles%2BI.jpg This week in history - August 25th - 31st - Scotland defeated Charles I at Battle of Newburn 1640 - The Battle of Newburn between England and Scotland in the Second Bishop’s War took place. The Bishop’s Wars were in retaliation to King Charles I’s attempts to reform the Scottish church by forcing a new book of prayer on it and bringing it into unison with the English church. Scotland won the battle and proceeded to occupy the city of Newcastle asking to be paid before they would leave. King Charles was forced to ask Parliament for financial aid which eventually led to his downfall and the English Civil war. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/f76bb675-5cd6-46fd-99e7-688ab45ff418/Martin+Luther+King+Jr.jpg This week in history - August 25th - 31st - ‘I have a dream…’ 1963 - Martin Luther King Jr delivered his famous speech, “I have a dream…” in Washington DC, USA to a crowd of around 200,000 people. The crowd had been demonstrating against racial discrimination in the USA, and for civil rights, equality and freedom. The speech has become one of the most iconic speeches in American history and is recognised around the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/08a17b5a-82ea-4c05-ab51-9abf91aec38c/King+Edward+III.jpg This week in history - August 25th - 31st - King Edward III victorious at Battle of Winchelsea 1350 - Battle of Winchelsea took place in the English Channel near Winchelsea and Rye. King Edward III was quite angry and frustrated with the Spanish piracy against English ships and wanted to take revenge. Hearing of a fleet of Spanish ships that had been trading with France, he decided it was an opportune moment for battle. A fleet of 50 English ships attacked, fought off and defeated about 40 Spanish ships. That might make the Spanish think twice about attacking any more of Edward’s ships. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/33c4dc12-cbb6-4837-8255-e40021b30891/Michael%2BFaraday.jpg This week in history - August 25th - 31st - Demonstration of the first electric transformer 1831 - Michael Faraday demonstrated the first electric transformer. His demonstration involved an iron ring, some copper wire and a plate battery which showed how electricity can be transferred across space using electro-magnetism. Modern electricity substations today consist of very large transformers that work along the same principle that Faraday demonstrated in 1831. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1ff63a85-463d-4ee8-8fb2-686e505b8bf7/Frankenstein.jpg This week in history - August 25th - 31st - Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, was born 1797 - Mary Shelley the English author who wrote Frankenstein was born in London. She was married to the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/2d5f7ea3-cd3d-4053-9759-2a27b9aab0ba/King+Henry+V.jpg This week in history - August 25th - 31st - Death of King Henry V 1422 - Henry V of England died. leaving his nine-month-old son to become King Henry VI. Henry V is famous for leading English troops to victory in France at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. His victories in France led to his son, Henry VI, becoming King of both England and France. He died in France of battle dysentery shortly after winning the Siege of Meaux. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/august-18th-24th monthly 0.5 2025-08-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/b33af7ea-2ce4-40c3-aa2e-c3ee77f26e77/King+Edward+I.jpg This week in history - August 18th -24th - Coronation of King Edward I 1274 - King Edward I was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey on his return to England from the Crusades. He was named king upon his father’s death in November 1272 but was abroad fighting and did not return to England until 2nd August 1274. He was nicknamed Edward Longshanks because he was 6’2” (188cm) which was very tall for the time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/9fff0e9a-c309-49d5-8ad5-982a222f34b8/King+Richard+II.jpg This week in history - August 18th -24th - King Richard II surrendered to Henry Bolingbroke 1399 - King Richard II formally surrendered to his cousin Henry Bolingbroke promising to abdicate in return for his life. Richard II became king at the age of ten when his grandfather King Edward III died. Richard had been spoilt as a child and expected everything to go his way. This behaviour continued when he became King, and his reign was unpopular amongst some of the nobility. Henry Bolingbroke’s father died whilst he was in exile and all of the lands and riches Henry was due to inherit were confiscated by King Richard II. Angered by this injustice Henry returned to England, raised an army, and captured Richard II without a fight. He then took the crown and became King Henry IV. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/44fc0ca0-bbcf-4f1e-b3dc-9cdb2742edeb/Mary%2BQueen%2Bof%2BScots.jpg This week in history - August 18th -24th - Mary Queen of Scots returned to Scotland 1561 - Mary Queen of Scots returned to Scotland to assume the throne after spending 13 years in France. She had been sent to live at the French Royal Court when she was 5 years old for her own safety and because she was betrothed to Prince Francis, the son of the French king. When she was 15 years old, they married, and a year later, in 1559, he became King Francis II. Unfortunately, King Francis II died in 1560 and left Mary a widow at only 18 years of age. No longer wanted at the French Court, Mary decided to return to Scotland and resume her duties as Queen of Scotland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/fab3f00c-177a-4297-bfdf-439ee6da5079/Bonnie+Prince+Charlie.jpg This week in history - August 18th -24th - Bonnie Prince Charlie arrived in style at Loch Shiel 1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles Edward Stuart) arrived at Loch Shiel by rowing boat in an attempt to challenge his father’s right to the thrones of Scotland and England. His grandfather was the deposed King James VII and II who had been replaced by King William III and Queen Mary II. Bonnie Prince Charlie was met by his supporters and at nearby Glenfinnan the young prince raised his flag in Scotland sparking the second Jacobite rebellion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/b82e9205-bd68-4208-8d1b-c3e65095025b/King+William+IV.jpg This week in history - August 18th -24th - King WIlliam IV was born in London 1765 - King William IV was born in Buckingham Palace, London. He was the third son of King George III and did not expect to become king. When his brother King George IV died without an heir, William became King William IV at the age of 64 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/8ce9d806-ad56-47ba-a47b-78fa92e62bc4/King+Richard+III.jpg This week in history - August 18th -24th - King Richard III died at Bosworth Field 1485 - King Richard III was killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field bringing an end to the Wars of the Roses. He was the last English monarch to die in battle. The Wars of the Roses were between House York and House Lancaster over the right to the English throne. When Richard died, his crown was found lying in a bush and placed upon Henry Tudor’s head. Henry became King Henry VII and married Richard III’s niece Elizabeth Woodville (daughter of King Edward IV) uniting the two warring families. To ‘advertise’ their union Henry VII designed the Tudor rose, incorporating the White rose of York and the Red rose of Lancaster into one rose. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/acc4edd9-3e89-4250-bd1e-0f2bba6b3882/King+James+VI+young.jpg This week in history - August 18th -24th - King James VI was captured and held prisoner 1582 - King James VI of Scotland was captured whilst on a hunting trip by William Ruthven. James was only 17 years old and there were questions over his dedication to the Protestant cause. He was held captive for ten months before escaping by lulling his captors into a false sense of security. On his escape and return to power King James originally pardoned William Ruthven but later ordered his execution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/f4f1ca20-83b6-445d-83ae-0f2f6603a6a4/King%2BCharles%2BI.jpg This week in history - August 18th -24th - Make iKing Charles I raised his flag and started the English Civil War 1642 - The English Civil War began when King Charles I raised his royal standard (flag) at Nottingham. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1b2b9a32-8ae4-4f15-8db8-0d3f35aea8fe/William+Wallace.jpg This week in history - August 18th -24th - Scottish leader William Wallace was executed 1305 - William Wallace was executed in London for high treason. Wallace was a leader in the Scottish Wars of Independence and was caught by English soldiers after being betrayed by a friend. He was hanged, drawn and quartered, and his remains were transported across the country. His limbs were put on display in Perth, Berwick on Tweed, Stirling, and Newcastle upon Tyne as a deterrent to all rebels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1629466879091-F8D49M28NMAR66T2S650/volcano.jpg This week in history - August 18th -24th - Mount Vesuvius erupted in Italy 79CE - Mount Vesuvius erupted burying the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum under its volcanic ash. The cities and their people were preserved under the ash that rained down on them. Archaeologists have found buildings, roads, pots, jewellery, coins, artwork and even paper at the two sites. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/25231a77-0493-4db2-8696-638ee23ebc18/William%2BWilberforce.jpg This week in history - August 18th -24th - William Wilberforce, campaigner for the abolition of slavery, was born 1759 - William Wilberforce was born in Hull. He became a member of Parliament and is most famous for his tireless campaigning for the abolition of slavery. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/august-11th-17th monthly 0.5 2025-08-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/ac39a606-1399-49a6-aec8-43bb37b2ae2d/Edward+Baliol.jpg This week in history - August 11th - 17th - Edward Baliol victorious at Dupplin Moor 1332 - In Scotland, the Battle of Dupplin Moor took place between Edward Balliol, a contender for the Scottish throne, and the Earl of Mar, who was defending the crown for the young King David II, the son of Robert the Bruce. Despite being outnumbered eight men to one, Edward Balliol won the battle with the help of English forces and was crowned King of Scotland a few days later. His reign did not last long and he was deposed within the year. However, with the help of the English king Edward Balliol managed to reclaim the Scottish throne but it was not without cost; Edward Balliol had to resign his lands and power by acknowledging King Edward III of England as his over lord. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1628330102169-65B6OXG5HSU1IXJ8TBLQ/King%2BGeorge%2BIV.jpg This week in history - August 11th - 17th - King George IV was born in London 1762 - King George IV was born in St James’ Palace, London. Did you know that King George IV was married illegally to a lady called Maria Fitzherbert whilst he was Prince of Wales? He was forced to divorce her because she was a Catholic and persuaded to marry his cousin, Caroline of Brunswick. He only agreed to marry Caroline because the Government had agreed to pay off his debts of around £650,000 (about £78 million in today’s money). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/55031b81-4709-44b3-a4e6-bdf20a8fc685/George+Stephenson.jpg This week in history - August 11th - 17th - Father of the railways died 1848 - George Stephenson the English engineer and renowned ‘Father of railways’ died. His most famous steam locomotive, the ‘Rocket’, built with his son Robert, was able to pull carriages along at a speed of 36 miles per hour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/a84cbe7b-943c-4f4d-8929-67133df3bd13/Alfred%2BHitchcock.jpg This week in history - August 11th - 17th - Alfred Hitchcock was born in Essex 1899 - Alfred Hitchcock the famous film director of films including Psycho and Rear Window, was born in Leytonstone, Essex. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/92d08a88-48de-426c-9ec5-dd843d112546/Florence+Nightingale.jpg This week in history - August 11th - 17th - Death of the Lady with the Lamp 1910 - Florence Nightingale, the British nurse who improved cleanliness of hospitals and nursing standards during the Crimean war died. She was known as ‘The Lady with the Lamp’ because she continued to care for soldiers throughout the night by lamplight. Florence Nightingale is considered the founder of modern nursing, and despite being a nurse for only a few years of her career, she campaigned tirelessly for better healthcare, wrote several books about nursing, and established a nursing school at St Thomas’s Hospital in London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/3903eb9a-3706-4704-8998-d06b496ae43e/John+Logie+Baird.jpg This week in history - August 11th - 17th - John Logie Baird was born in Helensburgh, Scotland 1888 - The Scottish inventor of television, John Logie Baird was born. He first demonstrated television in 1926 in an attic room in central London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/51e62022-8402-4e0a-9848-8465d6da15e1/King+Henry+VIII.jpg This week in history - August 11th - 17th - Henry VIII defended the Pope at Battle of the Spurs 1513 - King Henry VIII and the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I defeated France at the Battle of the Spurs in Guinegate near Calais, France. The battle was part of the Italian wars (1494-1559) and Henry VIII had agreed to defend the papacy from its enemies and France. (This was years before he fell out with the pope and set up the Church of England.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/2bbe3b61-a8be-4a3b-80ac-5b93636c1457/Queen+Victoria.jpg This week in history - August 11th - 17th - Queen Victoria sent the first telegraph to America 1858 - Queen Victoria sent the first official telegraph across the Atlantic to President James Buchanan of the USA. The message took 16 hours to send by morse code through 2,500 miles of cable which had been laid under the Atlantic Ocean. Unfortunately, the cable did not last long before breaking down. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/4th-10th-august monthly 0.5 2025-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/082741e1-0f83-4c50-8c66-f5e8fbc3aa5b/King+Henry+III.jpg This week in history - August 4th - 10th - King Henry III freed by his son at Battle of Evesham 1265 - The Battle of Evesham saw the English Prince Edward defeat Simon de Montfort the younger (6th Earl of Leicester), free his father King Henry III, and restore royal authority. It all started fifty years before with the Magna Carta and the promises made by King John, and for all kings after him, to stick to some rules. King Henry III had continually broken those rules and pushed the boundaries so that they were in his favour, whilst Simon de Montfort continually tried to restrict the king’s power. Henry III and Simon de Montfort both vied for power and the ultimate rule over England. De Montfort had fought the king, managed to imprison him and his son, Prince Edward, and has holding them both prisoner whilst he ruled England in the captured king’s name. Prince Edward was able to escape, build an army, crush Simon de Montfort at the Battle of Evesham, and free the king. De Montfort was killed and brutally dismembered during the battle as punishment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/a0a529fc-d591-48bc-a53e-9863b319cc10/Anne+Frank.jpg This week in history - August 4th - 10th - Anne Frank arrested for being Jewish 1944 - Anne Frank and her family were found hiding in an attic and arrested in Amsterdam by German Security Police following an anonymous tip off. They were arrested for being Jewish. They had been in hiding with other families for over two years. They were taken to concentration camps across the German occupied territories. Anne and her family were taken to Auschwitz, and then she and her sister were moved to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Anne died shortly before the end of World War II. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/8cec426b-b0d1-4238-bfb7-8fbda4b94ff3/King+Henry+I.jpg This week in history - August 4th - 10th - Henry I crowned king 1100 - Just three days after his older brother William II was killed in a hunting accident, King Henry I was crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey. Henry was the youngest son of William the Conqueror and is suspected of having a hand in his older brother’s death. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1b2b9a32-8ae4-4f15-8db8-0d3f35aea8fe/William+Wallace.jpg This week in history - August 4th - 10th - William Wallace captured 1305 - William Wallace, leader of the Scottish resistance to English rule, was betrayed for a generous ransom and captured near Glasgow. He was taken to London for trial and execution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1628329679607-YHYD2I94G9AT250L13F1/Japan.jpg This week in history - August 4th - 10th - Atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima 1945 - In an attempt to bring Japan to its knees and surrender in World War II, an atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It was the first time an atomic bomb was used in an attack. The city was reduced to rubble, tens of thousands of people died immediately and tens of thousands more died over the following days and weeks from radiation and other illnesses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/b555f61f-cd14-4091-929f-5ed65b86eaa1/King+Henry+VII.jpg This week in history - August 4th - 10th - Henry Tudor landed in Wales 1485 - Henry Tudor’s army landed at Mill Bay near Milford Haven, South Wales. Having been exiled for fourteen years in Brittany, France with his uncle Jasper Tudor, Henry decided it was time to return to England and stake a claim at the crown. He would go on to become King Henry VII. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1627727723945-D29PHTV46SRCA123YSS5/Chimney+Sweep.png This week in history - August 4th - 10th - Chimney Sweepers Regulation Act 1840 1840 - The employment of young boys as chimney sweeps was prohibited by an Act of Parliament. The new law stated that anyone under the age of 21 years should not ascend or descend a chimney or flue (climb up or down inside a chimney) for the purpose of cleaning, sweeping or coring, or for the purposes of extinguishing a fire within the chimney. Coring was a way in which to check the width of the chimney and to check for any obstructions. It also stated that nobody under the age of 16 years was to be employed as an apprentice chimney sweep. This law was very difficult to keep a check on and children continued to be employed in the trade. It wasn’t until 1875 when chimney sweeps had to be licenced by the police that the use of children to sweep chimneys finally stopped. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/b33af7ea-2ce4-40c3-aa2e-c3ee77f26e77/King+Edward+I.jpg This week in history - August 4th - 10th - King Edward I stole the Stone of Scone 1296 - Following his victory at the Battle of Dunbar, the Stone of Scone or the Stone of Destiny was seized by King Edward I from an abbey near Scone and taken to Westminster. The Stone of Scone was the sacred stone upon which Kings of Scotland were crowned. By taking it Edward I was attempting to stop future Scottish kings from being crowned and asserting his own authority over Scotland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/48b8e54a-3520-4245-ae83-31d29e43ff02/King+Edward+VII.jpg This week in history - August 4th - 10th - Edward VII crowned King 1902 - Prince Albert Edward, the eldest son of Queen Victoria was finally crowned King Edward VII, King of Great Britain. The original coronation was meant to take place on 26th June, but shortly beforehand the king had become ill with appendicitis and peritonitis and needed an urgent operation. If he hadn’t postponed the coronation in order to have the operation it was highly likely that he would have died. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1628329679607-YHYD2I94G9AT250L13F1/Japan.jpg This week in history - August 4th - 10th - 2nd Atomic Bomb dropped on Japan 1945 - The Japanese city of Nagasaki was hit by an atomic bomb. It was the second atomic bomb to fall on Japan causing severe devastation, death and disease. The death toll of both Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the site of the first bombing three days earlier, exceeded 135,000. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/29dc5c1e-0537-42de-b6ab-8826f96418ee/King+Charles+II.jpg This week in history - August 4th - 10th - Foundation stone laid at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich 1675 - King Charles II and his royal astronomer, John Flamsteed, laid the foundation stone of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. Within a year John Flamsteed had moved into the Observatory with two servants and had begun making astronomical observations on behalf of the King. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/july-28th-august-3rd monthly 0.5 2025-07-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/bbbe8f2a-119c-42d4-912e-256bfe0a2c58/Katherine+Howard.jpg This week in history - July 28th - August 3rd - Katherine Howard became the 5th wife of Henry VIII 1540 - King Henry VIII of England married his fifth wife, Katherine Howard. Little did Katherine know that the marriage would not last long, or that her fate would end on the executioner’s block. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/c98f55da-5186-4560-9449-7f5c1e771caf/Thomas+Cromwell.jpg This week in history - July 28th - August 3rd - Thomas Cromwell was executed 1540 - Thomas Cromwell, the once trusted adviser and chief minister to King Henry VIII was executed on the king’s orders for treason and heresy. It took three blows of the axe before his head was cut clean from his body. He was executed the very same day that Henry VIII married his fifth wife, Katherine Howard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/b4095ce4-d93b-464c-ba10-9c425157a2ed/Peter+Rabbit.jpg This week in history - July 28th - August 3rd - Beatrix Potter was born in London 1866 - Beatrix Potter, the English author and illustrator, was born in London. Her many stories include tales of Peter Rabbit (pictured), Squirrel Nutkin and Jemima Puddle-Duck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/44fc0ca0-bbcf-4f1e-b3dc-9cdb2742edeb/Mary%2BQueen%2Bof%2BScots.jpg This week in history - July 28th - August 3rd - Mary, Queen of Scots married her cousin 1565 - Mary Queen of Scots, married her cousin, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley. The marriage resulted in the birth of King James VI and ended with the still unsolved murder of Lord Darnley in 1567. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1624121200150-S39HV3OTVBA6YKZ2YA5D/Penguin%2Bbooks.jpg This week in history - July 28th - August 3rd - Paperback books first published 1935 - The first paperback books were published by Penguin. They cost sixpence and were colour coded: orange for fiction, blue for biography and green for crime. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/dda946bf-3163-485f-8395-08fc5675c36c/Queen+Anne.jpg This week in history - July 28th - August 3rd - The end of the Stuart Dynasty on the English throne 1714 - Queen Anne of England died and her second cousin, George of Hanover, became King George I. Her reign signalled the end of the Stuart Dynasty and the beginning of the House of Hanover. and the period in British history called Georgian. She was so large when she died that her coffin was reported to be nearly square in shape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1624119431433-LNUW3VTLB6J97OT8Q5DW/Boy%2BScouts.jpg This week in history - July 28th - August 3rd - The first Boy Scouts camp took place 1907 - The Boy Scouts began with a camp for twenty boys on Brownsea Island in Dorset, England. Robert Baden-Powell hoped that in bringing together boys of differing backgrounds, he would be able to bridge the gaps in society and give everyone the chance to learn new skills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/3710f5dc-2931-4287-bf6c-0fbd5b8bbace/King%2BWilliam%2BII.jpg This week in history - July 28th - August 3rd - King William II died in hunting accident 1100 - King William II (William Rufus, the son of William the Conqueror) was accidentally killed by an arrow whilst hunting in the New Forest in the south of England. William was not a particularly popular king and ruled with an iron fist, this meant he was very strict and ruthless. When the arrow hit him in the chest it is said that he didn’t yell out in pain but instead just broke off the shaft of the arrow (the stick part). This action made him bleed quicker, leading to his death. His younger brother Henry left him in the forest and raced to seize the throne. Do you think it was an accident or could it have been done on purpose so that Henry could become king? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/b447970e-cc38-4ad4-a881-ef0707f3bfdd/Jesse+Owens.jpg This week in history - July 28th - August 3rd - Jesse Owens began his winning streak at the 1936 Olympic Games 1936 - At the Olympic Games in Berlin, the American sprinter Jesse Owens won the first of his four gold medals in the 100m race in front of Adolf Hitler who was the Fuhrer (ruler) of Germany. During the Olympics Jesse also managed to break or equal nine Olympic records and set three world records. These wins dealt a huge blow to Hitler’s Nazi party ideology that the Aryan race were superior in all things. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/d1k8p5tllkcv1m1mcfy041kxqeviaw monthly 0.5 2025-07-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/e121d46d-dd90-4105-8c77-f97e61434b12/Isle+of+Wight.jpg This week in history - July 21st - 27th - French troops invaded England 1545 - Whilst attempting to invade England, French troops landed at different parts of the Isle of Wight. Attempting to catch the islanders by surprise they were themselves surprised to find that the English had spotted their arrival and had already taken to high ground in order to repel any attack. All of the citizens of the Isle of Wight, including women, were required to have military training to defend their homes against the frequent invasions from the French forces, and they soon had the French fleeing back to their ships unable to break through the defences. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1624116582524-G6QAEQEPIB7MMWJY0GJV/Robert+Burns.jpg This week in history - July 21st - 27th - Death of Robert Burns 1796 - Robert Burns the famous Scottish poet died in Dumfries, Scotland. He wrote numerous poems and songs including ‘Auld Lang Syne’ which is the song often sung at the stroke of midnight to say goodbye to the old year and bring in the New Year. He is celebrated annually on Burns Night, January 25th, when people around the world gather for suppers in his honor, reciting his poetry and singing his songs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1b2b9a32-8ae4-4f15-8db8-0d3f35aea8fe/William+Wallace.jpg This week in history - July 21st - 27th - William Wallace defeated at the Battle of Falkirk 1298 - The Battle of Falkirk took place between the armies of King Edward I of England, and Scottish forces led by William Wallace. Using long bows that were nearly two metres long and that could shoot armour piercing arrows at a distance nearly twice the length of a football pitch, the English could attack the Scots from far away. This gave the English army a much better advantage, and with their greater numbers they easily overpowered and defeated the Scots. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/b33af7ea-2ce4-40c3-aa2e-c3ee77f26e77/King+Edward+I.jpg This week in history - July 21st - 27th - Stirling Castle taken by King Edward I 1304 - King Edward I of England took Stirling Castle, the last rebel stronghold of the war between England and Scotland. He had lain siege to the castle and its Scottish defendants led by Sir William Oliphant for three months before there was any sign of surrender. A note of surrender was sent to Edward I on 20th July but was rejected by the king. The rejection was possibly so that Edward could show-off one of his weapons that had been under construction during the siege. The ‘war wolf’ was a type of giant catapult that could hurl projectiles up to 140kg in weight at the castle. Stirling Castle was reclaimed by the Scots ten years later at the Battle of Bannockburn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/44fc0ca0-bbcf-4f1e-b3dc-9cdb2742edeb/Mary%2BQueen%2Bof%2BScots.jpg This week in history - July 21st - 27th - Queen of Scotland forced to abdicate 1567 - Mary Queen of Scots who was imprisoned in Lochleven Castle was forced to abdicate in favour of her 11-month-old son, James, who then became King James VI of Scotland. With the king being so young, Scotland was ruled by Lord James Stewart, Earl of Moray who was Mary’s half-brother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/45069a68-9d9e-482d-b163-c9f7889d7bef/Queen%2BMary%2BI.jpg This week in history - July 21st - 27th - Queen Mary I married Prince Philip of Spain 1554 - Queen Mary I, the eldest daughter of Henry VIII, married Prince Philip of Spain at Winchester Cathedral. Mary was ten years older than Philip and the marriage was not a happy one. They never had any children and Philip spent most of his time abroad. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/3efaacad-d5bd-459c-a913-6fb089434672/King+Edward+IV.jpg This week in history - July 21st - 27th - King Edward IV defeated at Edgecote Moor 1469 - The Battle of Edgecote Moor took place during the Wars of the Roses between the Earl of Warwick (Richard Neville) and King Edward IV. The Lancastrian forces led by Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick (also known as the Kingmaker) defeated Edward’s Yorkist troops. Shortly after they captured King Edward IV; the king was held captive for only a short time before being released. Richard Neville was formally a friend and ally of King Edward IV, and as the saying goes - ‘With friends like that, who needs enemies?’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/a66410c3-32f8-49fd-925c-0731ec7ca41e/King+William+III.jpg This week in history - July 21st - 27th - King William III defeated by Jacobites at the Battle of Killicrankie 1689 - Battle of Killicrankie saw the Scottish Jacobite Highlanders in support of the deposed catholic King James VII and II defeat the troops supporting the protestant King William III of England and Scotland (also known as William of Orange). William was married to King James VII and II’s daughter Mary; both he and his wife had been asked to take the English and Scottish throne when James VII and II was ousted because of his devout religious standing. In other words he had become too Catholic. England welcomed William and Mary with open arms but there were tensions and bloodshed in both Scotland and Ireland following their ascension to the throne. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/july-14th-20th monthly 0.5 2025-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1624115795140-MY7959RVTTPUJVZ9VBE8/French+flag.jpg This week in history - July 14th - 20th - The Storming of the Bastille 1789 - The French Revolution began with the storming of the Bastille Prison in Paris. The revolution lasted over ten years and brought an end to the monarchy in France when both King Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette were executed by guillotine. Bastille Day is celebrated by French nationals around the world every year on 14th July. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/3db2b338-c5a3-4084-b111-f3d7ff41969b/Inigo+Jones.jpg This week in history - July 14th - 20th - Inigo Jones was born 1573 - Inigo Jones the architect, painter and designer who founded the English classical tradition of architecture was born in London. One of his more famous pieces of architecture is the Banqueting House in Whitehall which is where King Charles I was executed in 1649. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/f142b8c9-85b3-4b4a-baa0-3f0f20d1f306/Emmeline+Pankhurst.jpg This week in history - July 14th - 20th - Birth of Emmeline Pankhurst 1858 - Emmeline Pankhurst, founder of the Women’s Social and Political Union, and leader of the women’s suffragette movement in Britain, was born in Manchester. She fought for the right to vote for women and died shortly before seeing her campaign succeed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1631797451187-SB7I3S1RELSGT9LRBRH0/Anne+of+Cleves.jpg This week in history - July 14th - 20th - Anne of Cleves died 1557 - Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII’s fourth wife died. She was married to Henry for just four months before he demanded an annulment to their marriage. In the rhyme we use to remember the fates of Henry VIII’s wives ‘divorced, beheaded, died, divorced beheaded survived’ Anne of Cleves is the second divorced. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/47da57e4-9c69-434e-ba23-f9741f85e7c3/King+Edward+I.jpg This week in history - July 14th - 20th - Jews forced to flee England 1290 - King Edward I ordered the expulsion of Jews from England. This order took effect in November when the Jews living in England had to choose either to convert to Christianity or leave England altogether. This law remained in place for over 350 years; it wasn’t until 1656 that Oliver Cromwell officially allowed their return. Before their expulsion, the Jews had had the protection of the monarchy; being ‘servants’ of the king gave them a special relationship with the law, they were administered by a special court and had some privileges. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/51e62022-8402-4e0a-9848-8465d6da15e1/King+Henry+VIII.jpg This week in history - July 14th - 20th - The Pope’s power in England was revoked 1536 - The Pope’s authority was declared void in England by Parliament. Henry VIII was Supreme Head of the Church of England and the Act Extinguishing the Authority of the Bishop of Rome was written to include the power to punish anybody who defended the Pope in Britain. Priests and other church officers were obliged to take an oath renouncing the pope’s authority or risk execution on grounds of treason. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/e1343ba8-85a7-493b-9c36-aaf924f7b482/King+George+VI.jpg This week in history - July 14th - 20th - Indian Independence Act was signed 1947 - King George VI signed the Indian Independence Act. This gave independence to India and created two new dominions: India and Pakistan. Pakistan was also split into two further countries creating Pakistan and East Pakistan (now called Bangladesh). These areas separated the Muslim, Hindu and Sikh populations and caused the largest migration of humans that was not the result of war or famine. The new countries came into being a month later, on 15th August. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1624117461311-3LZL6T400HFM4FQE8YUL/Tudor+Galleon.jpg This week in history - July 14th - 20th - The Mary Rose sunk in The Channel 1545 - King Henry VIII’s flagship the Mary Rose sank in the English Channel at Portsmouth. The ship was built in 1510 and finally set sail in 1511. Having already fought in two wars against France and Scotland, the ship was part of a defensive fleet when a French armada attacked the Isle of Wight. Unfortunately, and for reasons unknown, it began to capsize and sink to the bottom of the sea just outside Portsmouth taking her crew of about 500 men with her. It is now famous for the salvage operation which brought her to the surface on live television. The ship can now be seen in a museum in Portsmouth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1624116471534-LNAAL68UY4QN7L00VABC/Footprint%2Bon%2Bmoon.jpg This week in history - July 14th - 20th - Man walked in the moon for the first time 1969 - Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon, followed by Buzz Aldrin, after their spacecraft Apollo 11 landed. Their colleague Michael Collins remained inside the spacecraft. As he set foot on the moon, Neil Armstrong said these famous words, “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/july-7th-13th monthly 0.5 2025-07-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/b33af7ea-2ce4-40c3-aa2e-c3ee77f26e77/King+Edward+I.jpg This week in history - July 7th - 13th - King Edward I died 1307 - King Edward I of England died whilst on his way to fight Robert the Bruce, king of Scotland, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/4ddf3232-752b-4d78-a593-875f235ada95/King%2BEdgar.jpg This week in history - July 7th - 13th - Death of King Edgar the Peaceful 975 - King Edgar of England died. Edgar was born in 943 and became King of Mercia and Northumbria at the age of 14 years. Two years later he became king of Wessex and therefore King of all England. His reign was very peaceful which explains his nickname, Edgar the Peaceful. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1631797451187-SB7I3S1RELSGT9LRBRH0/Anne+of+Cleves.jpg This week in history - July 7th - 13th - Anne of Cleeves divorced by King Henry VIII 1540 - Henry VIII divorced his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. Anne did not make any fuss about the divorce and remained friends with Henry who gave her a large yearly allowance and properties to live in, including Hever Castle in Kent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/adc026c2-f716-4369-bcc2-5789cbcd9502/King+Henry+VI.jpg This week in history - July 7th - 13th - King Henry VI defeated in battle 1460 - Wars of the Roses - Richard of York defeated and captured King Henry VI at the Battle of Northampton. Richard tried to claim the throne but eventually settled on the right to succeed the throne when Henry died. This meant that Henry’s son, Edward would have no claim to the throne upon his father’s death. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/0f8d1f38-c119-4849-8c8c-836f7d923aa9/Katherine+Parr.jpg This week in history - July 7th - 13th - Henry VIII married his 6th wife, Katherine Parr 1543 - King Henry VIII married his sixth wife Katherine Parr at Hampton Court Palace. Katherine was the first English queen to publish and write her own books. She cared for and nursed Henry in the last years of his life. And in the rhyme we use to remember the fates of Henry VIII’s wives ‘divorced, beheaded, died, divorced beheaded survived’ Katherine is the queen who survived. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/086ca98a-448f-40e8-be05-3d993de778ba/Julius+Caesar.jpg This week in history - July 7th - 13th - Birth of Julius Caesar 100BCE - Julius Caesar is thought to have been born on this day. Although he never became an emperor, Julius Caesar is possibly the most famous of all Roman military and political leaders. It was his strong desire to become ‘King of Rome’ that led to his eventual downfall. The Roman Senate, who were the people that made all of the decisions, a bit like our government today, did not like Caesar’s growing power and popularity, and decided that they needed to put an end to it. A group of men from the Senate, including some of Julius Caesar’s closest friends got together and ended his power by stabbing him to death. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/june-30th-july-6th monthly 0.5 2025-06-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1624110012910-ICT6DKWS8D55KFPR7P9X/Tower%2BBridge.jpg This week in history - June 30th - July 6th - Tower Bridge opened for the first time 1894 - Tower Bridge across the River Thames opened for the first time. The bridge opens for large sailing vessels to travel up the Thames into London. Did you know that in 1952 a number 78 London bus had to leap from one part of the bridge to the other when the bridge began to open? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1592830107151-PRE3DAYNRS2KRBO4EIY1/Telephone+1937.jpg This week in history - June 30th - July 6th - 999 came into use 1937 - The world’s first emergency telephone service was launched in London. The emergency number to call for police, fire or ambulance was 999. To begin with, this only covered a 12-mile radius around Oxford Circus in London, but was gradually incorporated throughout the UK. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1624109924131-PEFNYGEVGRKSF424C9L8/Telegraph+Morse.png This week in history - June 30th - July 6th - SOS became the international distress signal 1908 - SOS which in morse code is . . . - - - . . . (dot dot dot, dash dash dash, dot dot dot) became the international distress signal for those who need help. This was chosen because it was not likely to be misheard or mistaken for anything else when being interpreted. Despite technological advances in telecommunications, this system can still be used and understood worldwide if you’re unable to use a mobile or radio - simply flash the code using a torch or tap it out on something if you are trapped under debris. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/2f5bd5c5-13b3-472c-95b1-5bcdee3f4996/Oliver+Cromwell.jpg This week in history - June 30th - July 6th - Battle of Marston Moor 1644 - During the English civil war, the Battle of Marston Moor took place in Yorkshire between the royalist forces of King Charles I and the parliamentarian forces led by Oliver Cromwell. This battle was the first victory for the ‘Roundheads’ or parliamentary forces who would later go on to win the civil war after nine years of fighting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/3903eb9a-3706-4704-8998-d06b496ae43e/John+Logie+Baird.jpg This week in history - June 30th - July 6th - Demonstration of colour television 1928 - John Logie Baird, a Scottish engineer and inventor of the television, demonstrated colour television in London. It wasn’t until 1st July, 1967 nearly forty years later, that Britain would launch Europe’s first colour television service when BBC2 aired the Wimbledon Tennis Championships using colour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1624109898081-CGRMDXE3RFEEARSJAV4W/American%2BFlag.jpg This week in history - June 30th - July 6th - America declared independence 1776 - The United States of America proclaimed independence from Britain with the Declaration of Independence. Every year on this day Americans around the world celebrate American Independence Day or ‘the Fourth of July’ as it is commonly called. It took another seven years (1783) for the United States of America to be formally independent of Britain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1613661693868-LWGVWGAJ0WGZXC7G2H4F/sheep.jpg This week in history - June 30th - July 6th - First successful cloning of a mammal 1996 - The world’s first cloned mammal, Dolly the sheep was born in Scotland at the Roslin Institute which is a part of Edinburgh University. She was cloned using cells taken from another sheep. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1624111403797-UVHVJKYU0BOO1QPGQJMU/The+Shard.jpg This week in history - June 30th - July 6th - Opening of The Shard 2012 - The Shard which was the tallest building in Europe at the time was formally opened in London; there are now four buildings in Russia that are taller. The Shard stands at 309.6m tall and is 95 storeys high and is still the tallest building in the UK. Did you know that there are 36 lifts in the Shard? Some of them travel at up to 6m per second. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/ba9d3e32-7f7f-4063-a504-a1a2fdf7464b/King%2BRichard%2BI.jpg This week in history - June 30th - July 6th - Richard the Lionheart became King 1189 - Richard the Lionheart became King Richard I of England when his father, Henry II, died. Richard only spent six months of his ten year reign in England, most of the time he was abroad fighting in the Crusades or being held prisoner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/503a65b8-3a85-4e0d-8f7a-f816de421251/King+Edward+VI.jpg This week in history - June 30th - July 6th - Death of King Edward VI 1553 - King Edward VI of England died at the age of 15. He left the throne to his cousin, Lady Jane Grey, after declaring his half-sisters to be illegitimate. Jane Grey was never crowned queen because just nine days later Edward’s older sister Mary claimed the throne with popular consent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/7fb28277-49e2-452a-b222-450f97bce738/King+James+II+and+VII.jpg This week in history - June 30th - July 6th - King James II retained the crown 1685 - The Battle of Sedgemoor took place where King James II defeated the Duke of Monmouth (the illegitimate son of King Charles II) who was trying to overthrow his uncle the king and take the English throne for himself. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/jy72gbkxz5zy88eu1tumy5hzrrhuzz monthly 0.5 2025-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/f26f54b0-c511-4a9a-b87d-fadeb184c46a/King+Edward+VIII.jpg This week in history - June 23rd - 29th - Edward VIII was born 1894 - King Edward VIII was born. He was king for just under a year before abdicating the throne so that he could marry Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee. Edward VIII is the only British monarch to abdicate (voluntarily give up the crown). Upon his abdication, his younger brother became King George VI. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/387d633c-ad3e-4b43-8bbd-c6bf38044956/King+Edward+II.jpg This week in history - June 23rd - 29th - King Edward III lost the Battle of Bannockburn 1314 - The Battle of Bannockburn was won by the Scots. Starting on the 23rd June, the battle took place between the Scottish armies led by King Robert the Bruce and the English led by King Edward II. Despite being heavily outnumbered, the Scots won, easily defeating the English. This battle is seen as the end of the Scottish Wars of Independence although this was not officially recognised for another fourteen years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1633442225645-TOLSHA2D4LS0FNAOILCV/King+Henry+VIII.png This week in history - June 23rd - 29th - Coronation of King Henry VIII 1509 - King Henry VIII was formally crowned King of England at his coronation in Westminster Abbey. His wife, Catherine of Aragon was crowned Queen Consort. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/058b321f-d8e6-47d5-90e1-7fa209ae38f5/King+Edward+V.jpg This week in history - June 23rd - 29th - King Edward V declared illegitimate 1483 - The English Parliament declared King Edward V to be illegitimate and therefore not eligible to be king. He was the son of King Edward IV and had become king at the age of 12 when his father died. His uncle Richard, Duke of Gloucester was made protector of the realm whilst the young king reigned because Edward was so young. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/8ce9d806-ad56-47ba-a47b-78fa92e62bc4/King+Richard+III.jpg This week in history - June 23rd - 29th - Richard, Duke of Gloucester became King Richard III 1483 - Richard, Duke of Gloucester became King Richard III because Parliament had decided his nephew, King Edward V to be illegitimate. It was declared that his mother and father were never married and therefore Edward did not have a rightful claim to the throne. Edward V and his younger brother Richard were taken to the Tower of London shortly afterwards and never seen again. It is believed that they were murdered by their uncle so that Edward V could never reclaim the throne although evidence of their survival has recently been discovered. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/fab3f00c-177a-4297-bfdf-439ee6da5079/Bonnie+Prince+Charlie.jpg This week in history - June 23rd - 29th - Bonnie Prince Charlie escaped in disguise 1746 - Following his defeat at the Battle of Culloden, and two months in hiding, Bonnie Prince Charlie evaded capture with the help of Flora MacDonald. She disguised him as an Irish maid and took him to the Isle of Skye where he was able to flee to France. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/3efaacad-d5bd-459c-a913-6fb089434672/King+Edward+IV.jpg This week in history - June 23rd - 29th - Coronation of King Edward IV 1461 - King Edward IV was crowned king of England (for the first time) at Westminster Abbey. He had been declared king in March when he defeated the Lancastrian forces at the Battle of Towton in the Wars of the Roses. It was his sons who were imprisoned in the Tower of London by Richard III. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/51e62022-8402-4e0a-9848-8465d6da15e1/King+Henry+VIII.jpg This week in history - June 23rd - 29th - Birth of King Henry VIII 1491 - King Henry VIII was born in London. He is possibly the most famous of all English kings for marrying six times, beheading two wives, and breaking from the Roman Catholic Church to declare himself Head of the Church of England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/324bd21d-a16e-4854-ba9d-f9a9442b1bcb/Victoria+and+Albert.jpg This week in history - June 23rd - 29th - Coronation of Queen Victoria 1838 - At 19 years of age, Queen Victoria was crowned at her coronation in Westminster Abbey. The ceremony lasted five hours and quite a few things went wrong. First off she was handed the orb at the wrong moment, then the ring was pushed onto the wrong finger and took over an hour to remove, then an elderly peer fell down the steps whilst paying homage to the new queen, and finally a bishop told her the ceremony was over when it wasn’t and Victoria had to return to the coronation seat to finish the ceremony. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1592832203809-SZ4BXXEQU3Q8VTFB511Z/Globe+Theatre.png This week in history - June 23rd - 29th - The Globe Theatre burnt to the ground 1613 - The Globe Theatre caught fire during a performance of Shakespeare’s Henry VIII when a ‘special effects’ cannon was fired, and the thatched roof caught alight. The theatre burnt to the ground very quickly - in the space of about an hour. Although nobody was hurt, one man’s breeches did catch fire; his burning clothes were quickly put out when a bystander threw his beer over them. The theatre was soon rebuilt using the original brick foundations, but this time with a tiled roof. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/june-16th-22nd monthly 0.5 2025-06-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/44fc0ca0-bbcf-4f1e-b3dc-9cdb2742edeb/Mary%2BQueen%2Bof%2BScots.jpg This week in history - June 16th - 22nd - Mary Queen of Scots imprisoned 1567 - Mary, Queen of Scots was imprisoned in Lochleven Castle on an island in the middle of Loch Leven in Scotland. She was accused of adultery and murder and forced to abdicate the throne in favour of her 11-month-old son, King James VI. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/b555f61f-cd14-4091-929f-5ed65b86eaa1/King+Henry+VII.jpg This week in history - June 16th - 22nd - Battle of Deptford Bridge 1497 - King Henry VII defeated Cornish rebels at the Battle of Deptford Bridge. The Cornish rebels were fed up and angry that their Stannary Parliament (independent parliament) had been closed by the king and that they were being heavily taxed to pay for a war against Scotland that had nothing to do with them. Led by Michael Joseph An Gof and Thomas Flamank, the Cornish army of miners, farmers and workers were outnumbered by the English soldiers and easily defeated. Both Michael and Thomas were executed by being hanged, drawn and quartered. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/8cacaef5-9e67-4c09-9c6a-dddd7ffd7349/Sir+Francis+Drake.jpg This week in history - June 16th - 22nd - Sir Francis Drake claimed land in America for Queen Elizabeth I 1579 - Sir Francis Drake landed in California just north of present-day San Francisco to repair his ship. He claimed the area for Queen Elizabeth I by nailing a notice to a tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/26325538-7169-47ac-b1bd-bc5978e9ae2a/King+James+I+and+VI.jpg This week in history - June 16th - 22nd - Birth of King James I & VI 1566 - King James I (of England and Ireland) and VI (of Scotland) was born in Edinburgh. He became king before he was even a year old when his mother Mary Queen of Scots was forced to abdicate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/2a44ab24-e67b-4344-a9f0-e95ba3aba5d1/Robert+Peel.jpg This week in history - June 16th - 22nd - The Metropolitan Police Act 1829 1829 - Robert Peel introduced the Metropolitan Police Act 1829 to Parliament to establish a unified police force for London. The first policemen were called ‘bobbies’ or ‘peelers’ after their founder Robert Peel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/fc5fd319-9590-4248-b8df-d488b1db3f09/Sack+of+Baltimore.jpg This week in history - June 16th - 22nd - Baltimore raided by Barbary pirates 1631 - The Irish village of Baltimore was attacked during the night by Algerian pirates from the Barbary coast. In what has become known as The Sack of Baltimore, nearly all of the villagers, including women and children, were captured by the pirates and taken back to Algiers to be sold into slavery. This was the largest attack on mainland Ireland wiping out an entire village. In the 17th century raids by the Barbary pirates were carried out almost daily on the coasts of Cornwall and Devon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/b82e9205-bd68-4208-8d1b-c3e65095025b/King+William+IV.jpg This week in history - June 16th - 22nd - Death of King William IV 1837 - King William IV of England died. As he had no surviving children his niece, Alexandrina Victoria, became Queen Victoria. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/08a17b5a-82ea-4c05-ab51-9abf91aec38c/King+Edward+III.jpg This week in history - June 16th - 22nd - Death of King Edward III 1377 - King Edward III died. He was crowned king of England at the age of fourteen, and ruled for fifty years before his death. The children of his seven sons and five daughters would be fighting for the throne in the Wars of the Roses nearly eighty years later. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/9fff0e9a-c309-49d5-8ad5-982a222f34b8/King+Richard+II.jpg This week in history - June 16th - 22nd - Richard II became King of England 1377 - Richard II became king of England at the age of ten, following the death of his grandfather Edward III. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/june-9th-15th monthly 0.5 2025-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/47a74844-a583-4a2b-b207-fe07ea13e76e/Charles+Dickens.jpg This week in history - June 9th - 15th - Death of Charles Dickens 1870 - Charles Dickens, the famous British author died. Some of his famous books include Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/c98f55da-5186-4560-9449-7f5c1e771caf/Thomas+Cromwell.jpg This week in history - June 9th - 15th - Thomas Cromwell was arrested 1540 - Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s trusted advisor, was arrested for treason and heresy (heresy is having different religious beliefs) and taken to the Tower of London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1db6fc92-7daa-4031-b726-9ec84afb16b0/Catherine+of+Aragon.jpg This week in history - June 9th - 15th - Catherine of Aragon married Henry VIII 1509 - Henry VIII married his first wife, Catherine of Aragon. Catherine was the widow of Henry’s older brother Arthur who had died in 1502. Despite years of trying, and giving Henry a daughter, Catherine was unable to give Henry a son which displeased the king. To better his chances of getting a male heir Henry wanted to marry Anne Boleyn; so he applied to the Pope in Rome for a divorce from Catherine. The Pope refused to grant a divorce, so Henry broke England away from the Catholic church of Rome, declared himself Supreme Head of the Church of England and divorced Catherine anyway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/a0a529fc-d591-48bc-a53e-9863b319cc10/Anne+Frank.jpg This week in history - June 9th - 15th - Anne Frank’s 13th birthday 1942 - Anne Frank received a diary for her 13th birthday. Shortly afterwards, her family had to go into hiding from the Nazis. For two years they hid in the loft of a house in Amsterdam with four other families. Anne wrote regularly in her diary, until they were captured in 1944. The diary was found by friends who kept it safe until they could return it to her. Unfortunately, Anne died in February 1945, just before the war ended, but her father survived and published her diary which has been translated into more than 70 languages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/9fff0e9a-c309-49d5-8ad5-982a222f34b8/King+Richard+II.jpg This week in history - June 9th - 15th - The Peasants’ Revolt 1381 - A large mob of peasants marched on London and demanded to see King Richard II. People were angry at Parliament’s resistance to make changes to society following the Black Death (Bubonic plague); they wanted the law changed. The Peasants’ Revolt had marched from Kent and Essex growing larger and larger as it passed each town and city, when they reached London they began burning and looting the city. The rebels from Kent were led by Wat Tyler who met with King Richard II (the king was only 14 years old at the time) and gave him a list of changes that the people wanted to happen; they wanted higher wages and for the poorer people to have more equality and more freedom. Wat Tyler was badly wounded during the revolt and taken to St Bart’s hospital in London, he was later killed on the orders of Sir William Walworth, the Lord Mayor of London. To begin with the king agreed to the terms to keep the peasants happy, but he later changed his mind and didn’t keep his promises. Over the next fifty years changes were made and many of the peasants’ demands were met e.g., they could choose who they married and could work where they pleased. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1621277347303-KJMW14L094XXK76GSV5A/Henrietta%2BMaria%2Bof%2BFrance.jpg This week in history - June 9th - 15th - Wedding of Charles I and Henrietta Maria 1625 - King Charles I married the French princess, Henrietta Maria. Together they had 8 children, two of whom went on to become kings of England: Charles II and James I (of England) and VII (of Scotland). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/2f5bd5c5-13b3-472c-95b1-5bcdee3f4996/Oliver+Cromwell.jpg This week in history - June 9th - 15th - Oliver Cromwell won the Battle of Naseby 1645 - The royalist forces of the English Civil War were defeated at the Battle of Naseby by the parliamentarian ‘New Model Army’ led by Oliver Cromwell and Thomas Fairfax. This battle is considered one of the most important of the English Civil War. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/f142b8c9-85b3-4b4a-baa0-3f0f20d1f306/Emmeline+Pankhurst.jpg This week in history - June 9th - 15th - Death of Emmeline Pankhurst 1928 - Emmeline Pankhurst died. Emmeline was a political activist who founded the Women’s Social and Political Union which fought for women's right to vote. The members of the union were called suffragettes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/04ec9252-69d8-489a-a031-22aa0d7d4d6d/King+John.jpg This week in history - June 9th - 15th - Signing of the Magna Carta 1215 - King John signed the Magna Carta at Runnymede. The Magna Carta was a document that implied there were laws that even the king had to abide by. It is seen as the beginning of democracy in England. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/june-2nd-8th monthly 0.5 2025-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/65990bb5-008a-42c7-819c-5611a6b600a4/Queen+ELizabeth+II.jpg This week in history - June 2nd - 8th - Coronation of Queen ELizabeth II 1953 - Queen Elizabeth II was crowned at Westminster Abbey. It was the first British coronation to be televised. Although the queen’s coronation was in 1953, she had been reigning since her father, King George VI, died in February 1952; by the time of her coronation Elizabeth had been queen for 16 months. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/334156a0-0052-498e-9e28-f3caac6a19b4/King+George+V.jpg This week in history - June 2nd - 8th - Birth of King George V 1865 - King George V was born in London. He came to the throne in 1910 and in response to the anti-German feelings of the British population during World War I, he changed the royal surname from the German sounding Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to the more English sounding surname of Windsor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/48984545-fb0c-4f59-9fec-2c6f64602c36/King+George+III.jpg This week in history - June 2nd - 8th - King George III was born 1738 - King George III was born in London. Despite being one of the most cultured of all British monarchs (he gathered a huge collection of books, 65,000 of which were later given to the British Museum), he is remembered most for going mad in the later years of his reign. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/51e62022-8402-4e0a-9848-8465d6da15e1/King+Henry+VIII.jpg This week in history - June 2nd - 8th - Henry VIII and the Cloth of Gold 1520 - Henry VIII and King Francois I of France began their meetings at the ‘Field of the Cloth of Gold’ in France in an effort to improve relations between England and France. It was the start of eighteen days of feasts, tournaments, masquerades and religious services. The event is captured in a painting most probably painted for Henry VIII himself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1640525235216-7JJZB188FTLWFXD3D4NW/Samuel%2BPepys.jpg This week in history - June 2nd - 8th - Samuel Pepys and the Great Plague 1665 - Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary about the Great Plague noting that there were some houses of Drury Lane marked with a red cross. This meant that somebody living there had caught the plague and had to be locked inside for 40 days or until death. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/c5752877-03a5-4097-9b6a-0c1583ec20a0/King+Henry+IV.jpg This week in history - June 2nd - 8th - Henry VI executed the Archbishop of York 1405 - The Archbishop of York, Richard Scrope, and the Earl of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray, were executed for treason under the order of King Henry IV. They were guilty of plotting a rebellion against the king. It was not long after the execution of the Archbishop that King Henry started to suffer from mysterious illnesses, people whispered that it was because he had executed a mand of the Church. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/may-26th-1st-june monthly 0.5 2025-05-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/593d1a91-6ef9-415b-b46c-ff493f7099d9/King+George+I.jpg This week in history - May 26th - 1st June - Birth of King George I 1660 - King George I of Great Britain was born in Hanover, Germany. He was a distant cousin of Queen Anne who had died childless and without an heir to take over the throne. George was chosen because he was a Protestant. There were many other relatives who were closer, in relation on the family tree, to Queen Anne but none were Protestants and the law in Britain had changed in 1701 with The Act of Settlement which allowed only Protestant monarchs to reign. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/29dc5c1e-0537-42de-b6ab-8826f96418ee/King+Charles+II.jpg This week in history - May 26th - 1st June - The British monarchy was restored 1660 - The English monarchy was restored when Charles Stuart was crowned King Charles II of Great Britain. It was his 30th birthday. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/c2648112-76ca-4f1e-bee5-598aafb2ffd0/Jane%2BSeymour.jpg This week in history - May 26th - 1st June - Henry VIII married for a third time 1536 - Just eleven days after beheading his second wife, Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII married his third wife, Jane Seymour. Jane Seymour died shortly after giving birth to Henry’s only son, Edward. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1640525235216-7JJZB188FTLWFXD3D4NW/Samuel%2BPepys.jpg This week in history - May 26th - 1st June - Samuel Pepys stopped writing in his diary 1669 - Samuel Pepys wrote the last entry into his diary because of his failing eyesight. His diary recorded events from his time such as the Great Fire of London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/e0b61cf8-b726-4e98-8cf2-d4f0c93b7dc8/Anne+Boleyn.jpg This week in history - May 26th - 1st June - Anne Boleyn was crowned Queen 1533 - Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, was crowned Queen of England. Her reign did not last long because just under three years later because she was executed for treason. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/may-19th-25th monthly 0.5 2025-05-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/e0b61cf8-b726-4e98-8cf2-d4f0c93b7dc8/Anne+Boleyn.jpg This week in history - May 19th - 25th - Execution of Anne Boleyn 1536 -Anne Boleyn was executed for treason and adultery. King Henry VIII’s second wife and mother to his second daughter Elizabeth I had been found guilty of having an affair with five men including her own brother, Lord Rochford. Anne Boleyn was the mother of Elizabeth I who was only three years old at the time. Within 24 hours of the execution Henry VIII was formally engaged to Jane Seymour; they married eleven days later. Did you know that every year on this day a bunch of red roses is left anonymously on her memorial slab in the Tower of London? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/adc026c2-f716-4369-bcc2-5789cbcd9502/King+Henry+VI.jpg This week in history - May 19th - 25th - Death of King Henry VI 1471 - King Henry VI was murdered whilst imprisoned in the Tower of London. He became king in 1422 before he was even a year old and he was crowned when he was just eight years old. Henry wasn’t given the power to rule England until he was sixteen in 1437. His reign was marred by both his mental health and the Wars of the Roses which saw him lose the throne to his cousin Edward IV twice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1621276813541-4N0IPKRVIJ2P9PMC74PZ/Amelia%2BEarhart.jpg This week in history - May 19th - 25th - First female non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic 1932 - Just five years to the day after Charles Lindbergh flew non stop across the Atlantic, Amelia Earhart completed the first female solo non-stop flight across the same ocean. Flying from Newfoundland to Northern Ireland, she completed the journey in 17 hours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/dca2f893-962d-412a-8a03-ca831f1c97bf/Wars+of+Roses.jpg This week in history - May 19th - 25th - The War of the Roses began 1455 - The first battle in the Wars of the Roses took place at St Albans. The wars spanned thirty years and were between House York and House Lancaster over the English throne. Henry VI of House Lancaster was the king, but his reign was marred by mental health and loss of lands in France leading to disputes over his power. Both families had claim to the throne through their grandfathers who were both sons of King Edward III. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/2bbe3b61-a8be-4a3b-80ac-5b93636c1457/Queen+Victoria.jpg This week in history - May 19th - 25th - Birth of Queen Victoria 1819 - Queen Victoria was born in Kensington Palace, London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/29dc5c1e-0537-42de-b6ab-8826f96418ee/King+Charles+II.jpg This week in history - May 19th - 25th - Return of a king 1660 - Charles II landed back in Dover to take the throne and begin the restoration of the monarchy. This ended military rule and the Commonwealth of England led by Oliver Cromwell. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/may-12th-18th monthly 0.5 2025-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/92d08a88-48de-426c-9ec5-dd843d112546/Florence+Nightingale.jpg This week in history - May 12th - 18th - Birth of the Lady with the Lamp 1820 – Florence Nightingale, the British nurse famous for her contribution to nursing, was born in Italy. She was known as the ‘Lady with the Lamp’ by the soldiers she cared for during the Crimean War. Did you know she was named after the city where she was born? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/e1343ba8-85a7-493b-9c36-aaf924f7b482/King+George+VI.jpg This week in history - May 12th - 18th - Goerge VI crowned King 1937 - The coronation of King George VI took place in Westminster Abbey. George VI is the father of Queen Elizabeth II and only became king when his brother Edward VIII abdicated. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/44fc0ca0-bbcf-4f1e-b3dc-9cdb2742edeb/Mary%2BQueen%2Bof%2BScots.jpg This week in history - May 12th - 18th - Battle of Langside 1568 - Mary Queen of Scots was defeated at the Battle of Langside. Mary had been forced to abdicate in favour of her one-year-old son, James and was trying to reclaim her crown from the Earl of Moray, Lord James Stewart who was the Regent acting on behalf of the young King James VI of Scotland. After the defeat Mary fled to England where she was imprisoned for nineteen years before being executed by her cousin Queen Elizabeth I. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/ccc97c6b-0dfa-4331-b0e4-4b76ff0240b6/King+George+III.jpg This week in history - May 12th - 18th - Two attempts on the King’s life 1800 - There were two assassination attempts on King George III. The first attempt of the day was whilst he was in Hyde Park reviewing a troop of soldiers. The king was shot at and the bullet narrowly missed him. The second attempt took place the same evening when the king, who was not worried or alarmed by the first attack that morning, visited a theatre. He was shot at again as he entered the Royal Box at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, London. As the culprit was caught and detained, the king insisted that the show continue as planned. Would you have been brave enough to go out the same evening if somebody had tried to kill you earlier in the day? https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/may-5th-11th monthly 0.5 2025-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1621278185385-BWGLJRH6SC2P2C0CDW52/Amy%2BJohnson.jpg This week in history - May 5th - 11th - Amy Johnson set off for Australia 1930 - Amy Johnson, a British aviator from Hull, took off in her plane ‘Gypsy Moth’ from Croydon Airport to fly to Australia. Twenty days later she arrived in Darwin and became the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia. Along the way she had to stop for rest, food, repairs and refuelling at: Vienna, Constantinople, Allepo, Baghdad, Bandar Abbas, Karachi, Jhansi, Calcutta, Rangoon, Bangkok, Singora, Singapore, Tjamal, Surabaya, Atambua, and Darwin. Today you can fly to Australia in less than a day, usually with just one stop along the way, can you imagine taking 20 days just to arrive somewhere that we now go to for holidays? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/f3249343-9595-4ae0-b36f-d0b648178e63/King%2BAlfred.jpg This week in history - May 5th - 11th - The Battle of Edington 878 - Alfred the Great defeated the Vikings at the Battle of Edington. This was the decisive battle that forced the Vikings to accept a peace treaty and stop raiding, invading, and battling against the Anglo-Saxons. In return for peace, the Vikings would live in Danelaw, a large area of land to the north of England whilst King Alfred and the Saxons would live in Wessex to the south of England. The Viking’s King Guthrum also agreed to be baptised into the Christian faith. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/334156a0-0052-498e-9e28-f3caac6a19b4/King+George+V.jpg This week in history - May 5th - 11th - King George V 1910 - King George V became the king of the United Kingdom when his father Edward VII died. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/3a83aa85-462c-4e47-a0cb-aef6462a330c/King+Charles+III.jpg This week in history - May 5th - 11th - Charles III was crowned King 2023 - King Charles III was crowned King of the United Kingdom in a ceremony held at Westminster Abbey.He was the 40th reigning monarch to be crowned at Westminster Abbey and is the oldest British monarch to be crowned. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/b33af7ea-2ce4-40c3-aa2e-c3ee77f26e77/King+Edward+I.jpg This week in history - May 5th - 11th - King Edward I lost the Battle of Loudon Hill 1307 – King Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeated King Edward I’s English troops at the Battle of Loudon Hill. The Scottish army of about 600 men was far outnumbered by the English which had roughly five times as many men in its ranks (quick maths … 600 x 5 = 3,000) but that didn’t deter the brave Scots. Instead of facing the English in a large-scale battle, the Scots waged guerrilla warfare and attacked the English army in small hit-and-run style ambushes. This forced the English troops to take a narrow route towards the Scots who were on higher ground; the English were hemmed in on one side by a river and on the other side by thick, wet, boggy marshland. Their cavalry charged towards the Scots but fell into the hidden ditches that had been dug out by the Scots to trap the English horses and their riders. The horses behind were galloping too fast to be able to stop and landed on top of those already fallen. It was a disaster for the English from the start. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/april-28th-may-4th monthly 0.5 2025-04-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/47da57e4-9c69-434e-ba23-f9741f85e7c3/King+Edward+I.jpg This week in history - April 28th - May 4th - Battle of Dunbar - Edward I victorious 1296 - Edward I defeated the Scots at the Battle of Dunbar. The battle was a retaliation or punishment by Edward I for King John Balliol’s refusal to support the English against the French. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/3efaacad-d5bd-459c-a913-6fb089434672/King+Edward+IV.jpg This week in history - April 28th - May 4th - King Edward IV was born in France 1442 - Edward IV, King of England (1461-70 and 1471-83), was born in Rouen, France. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/32338211-ebeb-45ba-bbf4-430b1f5ed049/Captin+James+Cook.jpg This week in history - April 28th - May 4th - First Europeans to land in Australia 1770 - Captain James Cook, the British explorer, landed at Botany Bay Australia. Captain Cook and the crew of his ship, Endeavour, were the first Europeans to land in Australia and encounter Aboriginal people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/19f88318-3748-4a4f-94a2-338f9bbfd3c1/Adolf+Hitler.jpg This week in history - April 28th - May 4th - Death of Adolf Hitler 1945 - Adolf Hitler and his wife, Eva Braun, committed suicide in his Berlin bunker. Shortly afterwards Germany declared an unconditional surrender to the Allied Forces of World War II bringing about the end of the war in Europe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1617478602918-XZJRM0RUGOYXVA7P1RGS/Empire+State+building.jpg This week in history - April 28th - May 4th - Empire State Building opened to the public 1931 - The Empire State Building in New York city was officially opened. It was the world’s tallest building at the time and remained so for 41 years until 1972. Today it is the 60th tallest building in the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1617479664534-6C7E541O7X02VE31YGRP/Penny+Black+Stamp.png This week in history - April 28th - May 4th - First ever adhesive stamps for letters 1840 - The first adhesive postage stamps went on sale in London. The Penny Black featured a white profile of Queen Victoria against a black background and cost one penny. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/e0b61cf8-b726-4e98-8cf2-d4f0c93b7dc8/Anne+Boleyn.jpg This week in history - April 28th - May 4th - Anne Boleyn was arrested and imprisoned 1536 - Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, was arrested for adultery and sent to the Tower of London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/65df4f03-97a2-41f3-b9c1-1f01efc0fad8/Human+heart.jpg This week in history - April 28th - May 4th - First UK heart transplant 1968 – The first heart transplant to be carried out in the UK was performed by Surgeon Donald Ross at the National Heart Hospital in London. It was the world’s 10th heart transplant. Sadly, the patient only survived for a further 45 days. Today around 200 people every year receive a heart transplant in the UK and go on to live long and active lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/3efaacad-d5bd-459c-a913-6fb089434672/King+Edward+IV.jpg This week in history - April 28th - May 4th - Edward IV was made king again 1471 - King Edward IV was restored to the English throne after winning the Battle of Tewkesbury during the War of the Roses. He had previously been King of England from March 1461 - 1470 until he was overthrown by Henry VI but now Edward was back in control again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/7cfc4a6f-adbd-4166-8d6b-a79d0d9664c7/Magaret+Thatcher..jpg This week in history - April 28th - May 4th - The first female Prime Minister 1979 - Margaret Thatcher was sworn in as Britain’s first female Prime Minister. She was leader of the Conservative Party and became the only Prime Minister to win three consecutive general elections in the 20th century. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/april-21st-27th monthly 0.5 2025-04-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/b555f61f-cd14-4091-929f-5ed65b86eaa1/King+Henry+VII.jpg This week in history - April 21st - 27th - Death of King Henry VII 1509 - King Henry VII of England died. He was the first Tudor king and ended the War of the Roses when he won the Battle of Bosworth Field. On his death, his 17-year-old son, also called Henry, become King Henry VIII. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/65990bb5-008a-42c7-819c-5611a6b600a4/Queen+ELizabeth+II.jpg This week in history - April 21st - 27th - Queen Elizabeth II was born 1926 - Queen Elizabeth II was born in London. She was the longest reigning Britsh monarch, reigning for 70 years and 214 days. Elizabeth was the longest reigning queen in the world and the second longest reigning monarch of any soverign state. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/ed03db94-3b6e-4495-bd5f-2a0e9b474ed3/William+Shakespeare.jpg This week in history - April 21st - 27th - Birth and death of a famous playwright 1564 - William Shakespeare, the famous playwright of Tudor England was born. His plays are as popular now as they were in Elizabethan England with many of his stories being used as a basis for films and stories today, such as Disney’s The Lion King (Hamlet). Shakespeare also died on this day in 1616. Can you work out how old he was when he died? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/387d633c-ad3e-4b43-8bbd-c6bf38044956/King+Edward+II.jpg This week in history - April 21st - 27th - Edward II was born 1284 - King Edward II was born in Caernarfon Castle in Wales. He was the fourth son of King Edward I and became King of England in 1307 when his father died. He ruled England until his death in 1327. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/2f5bd5c5-13b3-472c-95b1-5bcdee3f4996/Oliver+Cromwell.jpg This week in history - April 21st - 27th - Birth of Oliver Cromwell 1599 - Oliver Cromwell was born. He was a leading figure of the English Civil War and signed the order for the execution of King Charles I of Great Britain. After the execution of the king Cromwell became Lord Protector of England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/d56c645f-6fed-4713-9305-f98de9876f58/Auschwitz+Gates.jpg This week in history - April 21st - 27th - Auschwitz 1940 - Heinrich Himmler ordered the establishment of Auschwitz in the suburbs of Oswiecim which was a Polish city annexed to the Third Reich by the Nazis. Auschwitz was a concentration camp originally designed to accommodate the mass arrest of Polish people in the early stages of World War II. By 1942 Auschwitz had become the largest extermination centre where mass executions of European Jews, better known as the Holocaust, was carried out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/c553e09e-2941-44bc-864a-010c422a5c42/Witold%2BPilecki.jpg This week in history - April 21st - 27th - Pilecki escaped Auschwitz 1943 - Three years to the day of its inception, Witold Pilecki, a Polish resistance fighter, escaped from Auschwitz. He had got himself imprisoned voluntarily in September 1940 as a plan to gain information about Auschwitz, he was not prepared for the brutality that he witnessed and endured. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/april-14th-20th monthly 0.5 2025-04-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/3efaacad-d5bd-459c-a913-6fb089434672/King+Edward+IV.jpg This week in history - April 14th- 20th - King Edward IV won the Battle of Barnet 1471 - The War of the Roses continued with the Battle of Barnet. House Lancaster headed by the Earl of Warwick, a former friend and ally of the king, led an army of 15,000 men against the 10,000 men led by King Edward IV of House York. The Earl of Warwick was killed in the battle which lasted about four hours, leaving King Edward IV victorious. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/fab3f00c-177a-4297-bfdf-439ee6da5079/Bonnie+Prince+Charlie.jpg This week in history - April 14th- 20th - The Battle of Culloden 1746 - The Battle of Culloden took place on Drummossie Moor overlooking Inverness in Scotland. It was the final battle fought during the Jacobite Rebellion in an attempt to reinstate a Stuart king to the British throne. Being the grandson of the deposed King James VII and II, Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) believed the British throne was his father’s birth right and led the Jacobite forces in an attempt to overthrow King George II. His failure led to a complete change in the infrastructure and communities of the Scottish Highlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/9fff0e9a-c309-49d5-8ad5-982a222f34b8/King+Richard+II.jpg This week in history - April 14th- 20th - King Richard II listened to the Canterbury Tales 1397 - Geoffrey Chaucer read his Canterbury Tales aloud to King Richard II possibly at his royal court in Portchester, Hampshire. The Canterbury Tales are a collection of 24 stories about pilgrims from all backgrounds in society travelling to Canterbury on pilgrimage and telling stories to each other. The tales were enormously popular in Medieval England. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/april-7th-13th monthly 0.5 2025-04-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/7cfc4a6f-adbd-4166-8d6b-a79d0d9664c7/Magaret+Thatcher..jpg This week in history - April 7th - 13th - Britain’s first female Prime Minister died 2013 - Margaret Thatcher died. She was the first female to become a British Prime Minister and also the only Prime Minister to be voted in three consecutive times in the 20th century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/2d5f7ea3-cd3d-4053-9759-2a27b9aab0ba/King+Henry+V.jpg This week in history - April 7th - 13th - Coronation of King Henry V 1413 – King Henry V was crowned at Westminster Abbey. Did you know that it snowed on the day of his coronation? This was taken as a sign to mean that there were hard times ahead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/3efaacad-d5bd-459c-a913-6fb089434672/King+Edward+IV.jpg This week in history - April 7th - 13th - Death of Edward IV 1483 – King Edward IV died. He was King of England from 1461 – 1470 and again from 1471 – 1483. Edward was one of the two kings fighting over the crown of England during the Wars of the Roses, the other was King Henry VI. Edward IV’s son, also called Edward became, King Edward V for a short time before being deposed by his uncle Richard. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/march-31st-april-6th monthly 0.5 2025-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/ea5addd8-29fc-4f47-b60a-37883a9fecc9/RAF+Badge.jpg This week in history - March 31st - April 6th - Formation of the RAF 1918 - The Royal Air Force (RAF) was formed by merging the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1cbfb5ef-2d1f-48d2-b264-e77a77e5e25f/Edward+the+Confessor.jpg This week in history - March 31st - April 6th - Edward the Confessor crowned King 1043 - Edward the Confessor was crowned King of England. He did not have any children to inherit the crown and it was his death in 1066 which led to the fight over the English throne between Harold Godwin and William, Duke of Normandy at the famous Battle of Hastings.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/f76bb675-5cd6-46fd-99e7-688ab45ff418/Martin+Luther+King+Jr.jpg This week in history - March 31st - April 6th - Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr 1968 - Martin Luther King Jr was shot and killed. He was an American civil rights leader who highlighted and fought peacefully against the inequalities between blacks and whites in America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/ba9d3e32-7f7f-4063-a504-a1a2fdf7464b/King%2BRichard%2BI.jpg This week in history - March 31st - April 6th - The Lionheart was killed 1199 - King Richard I of England, better known as Richard the Lionheart, was killed in France whilst besieging a castle in Châlus, Aquitaine. Did you know that he is buried in the same chapel in France as his parents, King Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine? https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/waua1qxexyf9cdoanb2j898ocfgbme monthly 0.5 2025-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/862d7f0d-737e-4a21-a5ec-d74cd9519b07/Queen+Elizabeth+I.jpg This week in history - March 24th - 30th - Death of Queen Elizabeth I 1603 - Queen Elizabeth I died bringing an end to the Tudor reign of England. Elizabeth I had no children and left no heir to the throne, so King James VI of Scotland, her second cousin and closest relative, became King James I of England; with his rule, the reign of the Stuarts began. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/8ce9d806-ad56-47ba-a47b-78fa92e62bc4/King+Richard+III.jpg This week in history - March 24th - 30th - Burial fit for a king 2015 - King Richard III’s body was buried in Leicester Cathedral. The king had died at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485 and his body had lain in an unmarked grave that was found underneath a car park in Leicester. DNA testing proved the skeleton to be that of King Richard III and he was finally given a proper burial with all the grandeur fit for a king. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/f4f1ca20-83b6-445d-83ae-0f2f6603a6a4/King%2BCharles%2BI.jpg This week in history - March 24th - 30th - Charles I became King of England 1625 - King Charles I became King of England when his father James I died. Charles I is the only English monarch to have been tried and executed for treason. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/47e1aa9c-e282-43b4-a207-4e9c5c21b3f6/FEBC6DD9-ABB3-4CB1-AE04-6694E49CA38B.jpg This week in history - March 24th - 30th - Vikings attacked Paris 845 - Vikings attacked the city of Paris on Easter Sunday. They arrived in a fleet of about 120 ships with about 4,000 men and plundered and ransacked Paris until the king gave them 7,000lbs (about 3175kg) of silver to leave. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/dca2f893-962d-412a-8a03-ca831f1c97bf/Wars+of+Roses.jpg This week in history - March 24th - 30th - Battle of Towton 1461 - The bloodiest battle ever to take place on British soil occurred in freezing temperatures and a snowstorm. Around 28,000 men were killed at the Battle of Towton during the Wars of the Roses. The Wars were battles between cousins over who was the rightful king of England; Richard Duke of York, and then his son Edward of York (whose emblem was the white rose) fought King Henry VI of Lancaster (whose emblem was a red rose). This particular battle was won by Edward who rode into York and removed the head of his dead father which had been placed on a spike at a gateway to the city. Richard had been defeated in a battle three months earlier and his head was stuck on a spike as a warning to others. Things were definitely very messy back then. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/b33af7ea-2ce4-40c3-aa2e-c3ee77f26e77/King+Edward+I.jpg This week in history - March 24th - 30th - Berwick upon Tweed was stormed by King Edward I 1296 – King Edward I ordered his troops to sack the city of Berwick upon Tweed killing over 7,000 men, women, and children during the course of several days. Edward was angry that Scotland had signed a treaty with France called the Auld Alliance. To show his rage he began by attacking Berwick upon Tweed, which at the time was an important and large city. Edward had given the city a chance to surrender before he attacked, but the officials of the city decided not to give up and took their chance at survival. I guess they regretted that decision pretty quickly when the soldiers stormed the city. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/march-17th-23rd monthly 0.5 2026-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1615489479412-GKOI5PHM3JP2554L4IQI/King+Harold+I.jpg This week in history - March 17th - 23rd - King Harold ‘Harefoot’ died 1040 - King Harold I (Harold Harefoot) died. Harold seized the throne when his father King Cnut (Canute) died in 1035. His dad had left the crown to Harold’s half-brother Hardicanute, but because Hardicanute was busy fighting a war in Denmark with the king of Norway, Harold claimed the throne without any protest. Why the nickname Harefoot? Apparently he was brilliant hunter who was as quick on his feet as a hare. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1615489521905-L77LHKT2ZPBA47ZEXKXY/King+Edward+the+Martyr.jpg This week in history - March 17th - 23rd - Murder of King Edward the Martyr 978 – King Edward the Martyr was murdered in Corfe Castle whilst visiting his stepmother and half-brother Ethelred. He was stabbed whilst still sitting on his horse waiting to be let into the castle grounds. With his foot held tightly in the stirrup, his dying body was dragged along the ground as his horse bolted in fright. Edward was only 15 years old. There are rumours that his stepmother had a hand in his murder so that Ethelred could become king, what do you think? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/6352db76-69c2-4e97-ba88-a23375d3687e/Alexei+Leonov.jpg This week in history - March 17th - 23rd - First ever space-walk 1965 - Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave a space capsule and ‘space-walk’. The Russian cosmonaut was outside of the spaceship for just over 12 minutes but had difficulty getting back inside because his spacesuit had ballooned so much from the different atmospheric pressure. Alexei said afterwards that he had perspired so much that the sweat sloshed around inside his suit. Imagine how much he must have sweated for it to slosh about! Yuk! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/c5752877-03a5-4097-9b6a-0c1583ec20a0/King+Henry+IV.jpg This week in history - March 17th - 23rd - Death of Henry IV 1413 - King Henry IV died leaving his son Henry to take the throne and become King Henry V. King Henry IV was said to have a head full of lice, spotty itchy skin and sore red eyes. People said he was being punished for overthrowing the previous king and executing an Archbishop. What do you think may have been causing his bad health? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/4c6ef942-5849-4cc8-a481-b153aea63d59/Sir+Walter+Raleigh.jpg This week in history - March 17th - 23rd - Sir Walter Raleigh was freed from the Tower 1616 - Sir Walter Raleigh was released from the Tower of London by King James I, where he had been imprisoned and sentenced to death for plotting against the King. James I wanted Raleigh to go on an expedition in search of gold so he was released from the Tower to make the king rich. On his return to England Raleigh was thrown back into the Tower of London and then executed two and a half years later. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/2d5f7ea3-cd3d-4053-9759-2a27b9aab0ba/King+Henry+V.jpg This week in history - March 17th - 23rd - Henry V declared King 1413 - Henry V was declared King of England. He was a great warrior king and is famous for leading his troops into battle and beating the French at the Battle of Agincourt. Did you know that when he was 17 years old an arrow struck his face and lodged itself 6 inches (15cm) into his skull, narrowly missing his brain and his spinal cord? Special tongs were made and carefully inserted, all the way, into the wound and used to grip hold of the broken arrowhead and remove it. It took just three weeks for the wound to heal and close-up. He underwent all of this without the use of modern-day anaesthetics or antibiotics. Do you think you would be brave enough to go through that? https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/smeke7anqj7aoelocjh5th0wrqz2ur monthly 0.5 2025-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1624109948169-Q0KDPI17WGOZNBEAAPDH/Telephone+1937.jpg This week in history - March 10th - 16th - The first telephone call was made 1876 - Three days after patenting his new invention, Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call to his assistant in the next room. His famous words were, “Mr Watson, come here I want to see you.” Can you imagine a world without telephones? How would you contact your friends and family? Perhaps you would write to them or visit them more often, or do you think you’d try and invent a machine like a telephone? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/2be7fd90-fddb-4e02-b3a8-957e749b1d37/30mph.jpg This week in history - March 10th - 16th - A speed limit for British roads was introduced 1935 - Britain established a 30mph speed limit for towns and villages in a bid to reduce the number of deaths caused by dangerous driving. The year before this law was made there were over 2 million motor vehicles on Britain’s roads and 7,343 fatalities. In 2020 there were nearly 39 million vehicles on the roads with less than 2,000 fatalities. There were however, over 25,000 injuries caused by vehicles. Do you think that introducing the speed limit worked? What do you think of the lower 20mph speed limit being introduced to many roads? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/a8490e9f-0d53-40f6-bbad-941ad2a500fc/Albert%2BEinstein.jpg This week in history - March 10th - 16th - Albert Einstein was born 1879 - Albert Einstein, the scientist, was born. He is best known for his ‘Theory of Relativity’ and the concept of mass energy equivalence which is expressed by the famous equation E=mc². If you can understand what all that means, can you please explain it in simple terms to me because I have no idea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/086ca98a-448f-40e8-be05-3d993de778ba/Julius+Caesar.jpg This week in history - March 10th - 16th - Julius Caesar was stabbed to death 44BCE - Julius Caesar, one of the most famous of all Roman Generals, was stabbed to death by the Roman Senate who had become wary of his powers and his desires to become King. Julius Caesar had been warned he would die in the middle of March by a seer who told him to ‘beware the Ides of March’. For Romans ‘the Ides’ meant the middle of the month therefore ‘the Ides of March’ is around the 15th day of March. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/march-3rd-9th monthly 0.5 2025-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/f588b459-0fa9-4c22-b6d5-98f7c4b0ccbd/Alexander+Graham+Bell.jpg This week in history - March 3rd - 9th - Birth of Alexander Graham Bell 1847 - Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/b64495a6-f6db-4417-83f6-05fd876294ae/King+Henry+II.jpg This week in history - March 3rd - 9th - King Henry II was born 1133 - King Henry II of England was born in France. He was the son of Empress Matilda, the daughter of King Henry I, and her second husband, Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou. (Anjou is a region in France.) Henry became King of England and began the Plantagenet Dynasty when his cousin King Stephen died. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/5cb540c3-be53-4ce0-8e97-9a58dc54ca87/Aspirin.jpg This week in history - March 3rd - 9th - Aspirin was trademarked 1899 - The painkiller Aspirin was trademarked by the company Bayer. Did you know that the painkiller was originally made from a chemical found in the bark of willow trees? Willow was used by ancient civilisations such as the Egyptians as an anti-inflammatory and pain reliever for general aches and pains. In Ancient Greece, Hippocrates gave willow leaf tea to women to relive the pain of childbirth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/f588b459-0fa9-4c22-b6d5-98f7c4b0ccbd/Alexander+Graham+Bell.jpg This week in history - March 3rd - 9th - The telephone was patented 1876 - Four days after his 29th birthday, Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/19f88318-3748-4a4f-94a2-338f9bbfd3c1/Adolf+Hitler.jpg This week in history - March 3rd - 9th - Hitler began to provoke Europe 1936 - Hitler broke the Treaty of Versailles by sending over 20,000 troops into the demilitarised zone along the river Rhine. The zone had been established after World War I to prevent Germany from attacking France, by sending troops there he was beginning to defy the rest of Europe. This action was one of the early signs that World War II was brewing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/44fc0ca0-bbcf-4f1e-b3dc-9cdb2742edeb/Mary%2BQueen%2Bof%2BScots.jpg This week in history - March 3rd - 9th - Queen of Scotland witnessed a gruesome murder 1566 - David Rizzio the secretary to Mary Queen of Scots was murdered. He was dragged away from having dinner with Mary and a small group of guests and stabbed to death. He was stabbed over fifty times in front of the Queen. Rumours at the time suggested that Lord Darnley, was jealous of Rizzio’s friendship with the queen and that Rizzio was the father to Mary’s unborn child. https://www.histominoes.com/this-week-in-history/february-24th-march-2nd monthly 0.5 2025-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/bb12cfdf-59c9-473c-b09c-2addc04c4bb1/Queen+Elizabeth+I+Armada+Portrait.jpg This week in history - February 24th - March 2nd - Queen Elizabeth I was excommunicated by the Pope 1570 - Following in the footsteps of her father King Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth I was also excommunicated by the Pope, although not for the same reasons. Pope Pius V issued the papal bull (public decree or order) entitled ‘Regnans in Excelsis’. This declared that Queen Elizabeth I was not part of the Catholic Church and deprived her of her reign over England. It also ordered all English men and women to disobey her laws or commandments and that if they continued to listen to her then they too would be excommunicated. The Pope’s actions caused Parliament to pass a law which made it illegal for anyone to bring a Papal Bull into England and another law which made it treasonous to state that Elizabeth I was not the true queen of England. What had Elizabeth I done to deserve this Papal Bull? She had made England a Protestant country again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1613654329468-OS8TBDET7VV35TZNILU0/radar.jpg This week in history - February 24th - March 2nd - Radar was demonstrated for the first time 1935 - Radar was first demonstrated by Robert Watson-Watt in Daventry, England. Radar is a detection system that uses radio waves to determine the distance, speed and angle of various objects. Radar stands for Radio Detection And Ranging. Can you imagine how an air traffic controller would guide all the aeroplanes to the airport without this invention? There would probably be a lot of air collisions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1633443653720-QZM28F3Y850VBIP9094L/Houses+of+Parliament.jpg This week in history - February 24th - March 2nd - Succession to the Crown discussed in Parliament 1998 - The House of Lords in England first discussed putting an end to 1,000 years of male precedence by allowing a monarch’s first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as any first-born son. This would mean that if a King or Queen had a daughter before a son, the girl could become queen before her younger brother became king. If the law was to stay the same then the brother would become King no matter how old he was. It took another 15 years for this to become law under the Succession to the Crown Act (2013). Can you imagine being the older sister to a younger prince, how would you feel if he got to become king over you? Or would you prefer to be in the background and not have to do all the duties that the monarch performs? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/54ec782b-8d19-4111-bc51-cfff3ff3d633/Daffodil.jpg This week in history - February 24th - March 2nd - Happy Saint David’s Day 589 - Saint David, the patron saint of Wales died. He is buried at Saint David’s cathedral on the Pembrokeshire coast in Wales. This day is now known as St David’s day and is celebrated by Welsh people all around the world. 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He was overpowered by the cheering onlookers and nearby police before he could take another shot at the queen. Queen Victoria remained calm and continued on her way to Windsor Castle, after all she thought it was just an explosion from an engine and not somebody trying to kill her. 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