Historical Events

1529 Cardinal Thomas Wolsey stripped of office as Lord Chancellor of England

1586 Battle at Zutphen: Dutch army, assisted by the English, against the Spanish

Ben Jonson Arrested After Duel

1598 Playwright and poet Ben Jonson is arrested and jailed for manslaughter as the result of a duel where he killed actor Gabriel Spenser [1]

1st British Prime Minister

1735 Robert Walpole becomes the first British "Prime Minister" (actually First Lord of the Treasury) to live at 10 Downing Street

Jacobite Army

1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie 's army returns to Edinburgh

Coronation of George III

1761 Coronation of King George III and Queen Charlotte of the United Kingdom

An Edict by the King of Prussia

1773 Benjamin Franklin publishes a hoax letter, "An Edict by

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