Historical Events

Southampton Plot

1415 The Southampton plot to assassinate English king Henry V and put Edmund Mortimer on the throne is uncovered

1423 Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant - the French army is defeated by the English on the banks of the river Yonne in Burgundy

1620 Pilgrim Fathers depart Leiden, Netherlands, for England on their way to America

1667 Peace of Breda: Second Anglo-Dutch War ends with Suriname exchanged for New Netherland (New York, New Jersey, and parts of Connecticut and Delaware)

Daniel Defoe Put in the Pillory

1703 Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet but is pelted with flowers

1737 Prince Frederick of Wales escapes English court

Kilmarnock Edition

1786

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