This Week In History Series!

This Week In History: Week 3!

 

January 12^th: 1836 – The ship, HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reach Sydney, Australia. Darwin stayed in Sydney a few days before continuing his voyage.

HMS Beagle.

January 13^th: 1559 - Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey, following the death of her Sister Mary I.

January 14^th: 83 BC - Mark Antony was born in Rome. [Born Marcus Antonius] He was a Roman Politician and General in the Battle of Actium. He was also the Husband of Cleopatra.

Mark Antony.

January 15^th: 1535 - Henry VIII declared himself as the head of the Church in England, leaving the Catholic Church and the Pope.

January 16^th: 1948 - John Carpenter was born in Carthage, New York State, USA.  He is a very famous film director, best known for Halloween, The Thing, Ghosts of Mars and Village of the Damned.

January 17^th: 1882 - Arnold Rothstein was in New York City, New York State. He was an American gambler and mobster, he also fixed the 1919 World Series. (For any Boardwalk Empire fans, you’ll know exactly who he is! He is one of my favourite people in the show.)

 

 

Rothstein in Real life and The character of him in Boardwalk Empire!

 January 18^th: 1486 - King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV joining the two houses, York and Lancaster finally stopping the feud between the two!
   Also on this day in 1893 - British Poet and writer Rudyard Kipling, aged 26 married Carrie Balestier, aged 29 in London.

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