Historical Events

Siege of Damascus Ends

1148 Crusaders abandon their siege of Damascus after only four days leading to the disintegration of the Second Crusade

1586 English astronomer and mathematician Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe on his return to England from Roanoke Island in modern-day North Carolina

Poet Laureate Henry James Pye

1790 Henry James Pye appointed as British Poet Laureate by King George III

1800 Thames River Police is established by an act of British Parliament, replacing the earlier Marine Police (1798-1800) as the world's oldest continuously serving police force

Frankenstein on the Stage

1828 First theatrical performance of Mary Shelley 's novel "Frankenstein" as "Presumption; or, the Fate of Frankenstein" by Richard Brinsley Peake, starr

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