Historical Events

Battle of Flodden

1513 Battle of Flodden: English forces defeat the Scots near Branxton in Northumberland and kill King James IV of Scotland, the last monarch in Great Britain to be killed in battle

Queen of Scots Crowned

1543 Mary Stuart , at nine months old, is crowned Queen of Scots in the central Scottish town of Stirling

1591 Battle of Flores, Azores: Spanish defeat English (ends September 10)

1739 Stono slave rebellion, South Carolina: 60 enslaved people kill about 20 white people before being killed or later executed. Largest slave uprising in British mainland colonies before American Revolution [1]

1st Glass Plate Photo

1839 English scientist and astronomer John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph

1911 First European post delive

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