This Week in History Series!

This Week in History: Week 27

June 29^th: 1613, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre burns down during a production of Henry VIII, a stage canon ignited the thatched roof and burned down the theatre in less than 2 hours.

 

June 30^th: 1882, Death of Charles J. Guiteau, he was an assassin, who assonated President Garfield, he was found guilty and hanged at 40 years of age.

 

July 1^st: 1905, Albert Einstein introduced his theory of relativity.

 

July 2^nd: 1850, Death of Robert "Bobbie" Peel. He was a British Prime Minister and the founder of the London Police. He died at 62 years old.

 

July 3^rd: 1793, Birth of English poet John Clare. He was born in Helpston.

 

July 4^th: 1862, Charles Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll,  created Alice in Wonderland for Alice Liddell on a family boat trip on the river Isis (Thames) in Oxford.

 

July 5^th: 1973, the Isle of Man began issuing their own postage stamps.

 

Thanks for Reading!

 

Claire

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