Historical Events

Oration for Henrietta Maria

1669 French state funeral for Henrietta Maria, princess of France, widow of English King Charles I , at St Denis with famous oration by Bishop Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

Wilkes' Duel

1763 English journalist John Wilkes injured in a duel

1764 Native Americans surrender to the British during Pontiac's War of Odawa Chief Pontiac

1776 American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian troops take Fort Washington, New York marking one of biggest losses by US forces

Extracts from Letters to Henslow

1835 "Extracts from Letters to Henslow", a collection of letters written by Charles Darwin during his voyage on the Beagle, is read to the Cambridge Philosophical Society and later published as a pamphlet

Explorers Reveal the Maya to the Wor

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