This Week in History Series!

This Week in History: Week 13

March 23^rd: 1933, The Enabling Act made by the German Reichstag grants Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers.

 

March 24^th: 1603, The Scottish King James VI, the son of Mary Queen of Scots, becomes King James I of England in succession to Elizabeth I, thus joining the English and Scottish crowns.

 

March 25^th: 1133, Birth of Henry II, King of England, who reigned from 1154 to 1189.

 

March 26^th: 1892, Walt Whitman; an American poet, dies in Camden, New Jersey at the age of 72. Cause of death was Pneumonia.

Walt Whitman

 

March 27^th: 1708, Jacobite Pretender to the English throne James III (son of King James II) flees to Dunkirk. On his father's death in 1701, James declared himself King, as King James III of England and VIII of Scotland and was recognized as such by France, Spain, the Papal States and Modena. These states refused to recognise William III, Mary II or Queen Anne as legitimate sovereigns. As a result of his claiming his father's lost thrones, James was attainted for treason in London on 2 March 1702, and his titles were forfeited under English law. (For More Info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Francis_Edward_Stuart)

 

 

James III

 

March 28^th: 1866, the first ambulance goes into service in Ohio, USA.

 

March 29^th: 1827, 20,000 people attend Ludwig von Beethoven’s burial in Vienna, Austria.

 

That's another week over!

Claire

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