This Week in History: Week 14
March
30th: 1296 -
Edward I sacks Berwick-upon-Tweed, during armed conflict between Scotland and
England. This was known as Capture
of Berwick, it was the first
significant battle of the First War of Scottish Independence. After a raid on the
town of Carlisle on the North-West the English, under Edward I, began the initial conquest of
Scotland in the first phase of the war. They went to capture Berwick-upon-Tweed, a town that at the time sat
just north of the border and was Scotland's most important trading port. The
garrison was commanded by William the Hardy, Lord of Douglas, while the
besieging party was led by Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clifford. They took
the castle, whereupon Douglas surrendered and his life and those of his
garrison were spared.
March
31st: 1855, Charlotte
Brontë, English novelist best known for Jane Eyre, died at age 38.
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| Charlotte Bronte |
April
1st: 1815, Birth
of Otto Von Bismarck. Born in Schönhausen, Prussia,
Now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
He was the German Chancellor from 1866 to 1890.
April
2nd: 1836, English
novelist and social critic Charles Dickens aged 24 marries Catherine Thomson
Hogarth who was aged 20.
April
3rd: 1043, Edward
the Confessor was crowned king of England at Winchester Cathedral.
April
4th: 1581,
Francis Drake was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I aboard his ship the Golden Hind
at Deptford, South-East London.
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| Sir Francis Drake being Knighted. |
April
5th: 1614, American
Indian princess Pocahontas the daughter of chief Powhatan marries English
colonist John Rolfe.
That's it for this week!
Claire
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