Historical Events

Henry VIII Excommunicated

1533 Pope Clement VII excommunicates England's King Henry VIII

1536 The Convocation of the Clergy subscribes to the Ten Articles, beliefs of the English Church under Henry VIII

Euclid’s Parallel Postulate

1663 Oxford mathematician John Wallis gives a lecture on Euclid’s parallel postulate, first Western attempt to derive the parallel postulate as a theorem

Battle of Drogheda Boyne

1690 Battle of Drogheda Boyne: King William III defeats deposed King James II of England

In the Cottage Where Burns is Born

1818 English poet John Keats writes "In the Cottage Where Burns is Born," "Lines Written in the Highlands," and "Gadfly"

1848 Edmund Hickly achieves the first known 10-wicket innings (Kent vs. England)

1877 Kate Edger

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