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Geeky doctor of history. I specialize in early modern Europe - performance, power, and pop culture.

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in - in 1327, a young king Edward III of celebrates his coronation in Westminster Abbey. His father, Edward II, had celebrated his own coronation there in 1308. Edward II hadn't yet died when his son was coronated, and he hadn't willingly abdicated - the elder king had been overthrown by his wife, Isabella, and a small army of French mercenaries.
As king, the boy overthrew his mother's regency and was exceedingly popular in his lifetime.
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in - in 1846, the Bridge Wars between Juneautown and Kilbourntown ended with the building of 3 bridges across the River and a city charter combining the two towns into the larger city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The reason today why the road grids on either side of the river in don't match up (all bridges across the river have to go at an angle) stems from these two towns vying for precedence (and fighting. With cannons.)
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in - in 1649, Charles I of and was executed just outside the Banqueting House, London. It was a chilly day and he wore an extra shirt so he wouldn't shiver (worried the gathered people would think he was afraid instead of cold). The axe man took his head in one blow.
Unpopular as an adult, Charles was never meant to be king - he only was 11 when his older brother Henry died, making Charles the heir rather than the spare.
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in - in 1587, perhaps the first female English novelist, Lady Mary Wroth (nee Sidney) was born. Learned, literary, and sophisticated, Mary was a favorite of Queen Anna of Denmark and danced in several of her masques. In addition to serving as a patron, she was friends with Ben Jonson and was noted for her writings by him and their contemporaries. She wrote Urania and was the first known woman in to have written a sonnet sequence.
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in - in 1565 Marie de Gournay was born in - Marie was from an educated family (her father was a treasurer for the king). Through the family library, she was able to teach herself Latin and philosophy. She found the works of Montaigne, and after reaching out to him became an 'adopted daughter' of his. She was concerned for women and wrote in defense of their capabilities and equality to men. Marie was also a founder of the French Academy.
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in - in 1789, a group of market-women in , upset about the shortage and high price of bread, began to march toward Versailles. They gathered weapons and allies on the way, marching about six hours (church bells ringing all along the way in solidarity) and ending up over ten thousand supporters strong. By the time the royal family were escorted back to Paris, the crowd was at least sixty thousand.
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in - in 1850, Sarah Biffen died at age 66. Sarah was born without arms and grew up to be a well-respected miniature portraitist who received a pension from Queen Victoria. She built a studio from which she painted and sold her work - she was well known by Charles Dickens who mentioned her in some of his works. She was also commissioned by the queen to paint miniatures of the royal family, which drastically increased her popularity.

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in - Annie Besant (nee Wood) was born in 1847. Annie was born in London, and married at age 20, but the marriage fell apart in a few years. She separated from her husband and began to write - she was an ardent supporter of worker's and women's rights, even publishing a book on contraception (for which she was put on trial and custody of her daughter was given to her ex-husband). She advocated for Irish and Indian Home Rule and independence.
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in - in 1810, Elizabeth Gaskell (nee Stevenson) was born. Elizabeth was born in London to a well-to-do family. After her mother's death, she lived with her aunt in the countryside. There, she received a good education and after her marriage began to publish novels (all have been adapted by the BBC). She explored the lives of working class people in Manchester, and in her lifetime was lauded as the greatest English novelist since Jane Austen.
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in - in 1580, Katherine Brandon died aged 61. The daughter of Maria de Salinas, one of Katherine of Aragon's Spanish ladies-in-waiting, the younger namesake of the queen was a powerful woman in her own right. Baroness Willoughby by birthright, Katherine was a religious reformer who helped publish Katherine Parr's prayer book and built churches for immigrants fleeing persecution. She also possibly helped author parts of Foxe's Book of Martyrs.
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in - in 1915, Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte died aged 50. She was a public health and Indigenous rights advocate. As a child, she saw an older Indigenous woman die after a white doctor refused to treat her. This pushed Susan to become a physician herself, and she was one of, if not the first Indigenous person in the US to do so. She was valedictorian in her medical school cohort and went on to campaign for temperance and TB prevention and education.
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in - the Sultana Marija, Mara Branković, died in 1487 around age 70.
married off in an attempt get the Ottomans to stop invading Serbia (it didn't work), Mara was Sultana for about 16 years, and it was, as it was for so many medieval women, in her widowhood that she was able to guide her own destiny. She lived at the court of her step-son, Mehmed II and acted as a trusted advisor. She was well known for her influence, especially with the Church.
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in - The She-Majesty Generalissima of the English Cavaliers, Henriette Marie, died at the age of 59. She had been married to Charles I, king of when she was 15 years old. Henriette Marie was a loyal wife and queen, fundraising on the Continent during the English Civil Wars. Profoundly determined, she survived being shot at and escaped sharing in her husband's execution by protecting their children and taking them to France.
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#OnThisDay in #history - Elizabeth I was born in 1533. The only surviving child of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII, Elizabeth was generally not raised as an heir to the throne - her little brother was born in 1537, and she had an older sister, Mary. The unlikely queen came to the throne in 1558. Elizabeth had the longest reign (44.5 years) of the Tudors, and one of the longest in English history. She is remembered as the Virgin Queen for never having married.
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in - in 1620 Isabella Leonarda was born in - at age 16, Isabella entered an Ursuline convent, where she began her prolific career. She was well known for her skills in her home city of Novara, and wrote at least 200 songs. She also taught the nuns in her convent how to play music. She was the first woman to publish her sonatas, and did so throughout her life. She died at age 83, after a 60 year long career.
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in - in 1764 Henriette Julie de Lemos was born in the Holy Roman Empire, & her family were of Portuguese & Jewish descent. Henriette grew up in a time of Jewish Emancipation in Berlin and was very well educated. She hosted a literary salon in Berlin after her marriage (her husband led a science group) that became well known. Because of this, she was part of a circle of intellectual elites, artists & authors. She even taught Hebrew to her attendees.
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in - according to tradition, a widow named Stamira sacrificed her life to help save her city, Ancona in 1173. Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa sieged the city after it allied with the Byzantines. Attacked by Venice as well, Ancona had been under siege for over 4 months. To gain some respite, Anconitans threw a barrel with resin over the walls, but couldn't light it - Stamira ran out and did so herself, buying time for her neighbors.
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in - in 1869, Mary Ward died aged 42. She was an astronomer, author, and artist from She was also an expert at microscopy, and her drawings of specimens were published by David Brewster in his articles and books. She was one of 3 women on the mailing list of the Royal Astronomical Society (Queen Victoria and Mary Somerville were the others). Her cousins experimented with steam cars, and she was the first person to have been killed by one.
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in - in 1797 Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin was born in - daughter of political feminist author Mary Wollstonecraft and novelist William Godwin, Mary wed Percy Bysshe Shelley when she was 19. They lived abroad, her returning to England after Shelley's death. She worked as a writer and editor, collecting and annotating her husband's works and creating historical novels, biographical pieces, as well as her best known novel, Frankenstein.
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in - in 1815, Anna Ella Carroll was born in Maryland - as a child, she was educated by her father to act as his aide, which provided her a political and legal curriculum (her father was later governor of the state).
Anna wrote and published pamphlets for political candidates and causes. In 1860, with Abraham Lincoln's election, she freed all the people her family had enslaved, and later worked as a wartime advisor to the president.
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in - in 1559, Sophie Brahe was born. Sophie was the youngest sister of astronomer and scientist Tycho Brahe, and she grew up interested in the sciences, encouraged by him. She learned about medicine, astronomy, and horticulture, often assisting Tycho at Uraniborg. Her astronomical measurements - made without a telescope - were passed on to Tycho's pupil, Johannes Kepler, which he used in his works and so she indirectly influenced Isaac Newton.
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#OnThisDay in #history - in 1628, a courtier and #royal favorite, George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, was killed by John Felton. Parliament had twice wanted to impeach Villiers in his position as Lord Admiral as he was utterly incompetent and corrupt, but the king had protected him both times. The King already had a tenuous relationship with Parliament, but his relationship with Villiers was part of a confluence of factors which led him to rule w/o it for 11 years.
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in - in 1836, Agnes Bulmer died in - Born to a middle class family, she had a good education. An from a young age, she was first published at 14, with The Death of Charles Wesley (published shortly after his death, his son praised her for the work). She wrote what is perhaps the longest poem in English by a woman, Messiah's Kingdom, which took over 9 years to write the over 14000 lines and it took 12 volumes to publish in 1833.
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in - in 1612, the trial of the Samlesbury Witches began in Lancashire . It was a 2 day affair, where 3 women, Jane Southworth, Jennet Bierley, & Ellen Bierley were accused by a teen named Grace Sowerbutts.They were accused of taking the form of animals (a black dog); sucking the innards out of an infant & exhumed its body before boiling it in stew and using its rendered fat to anoint themselves.They were acquitted when Grace recanted.
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in in 1492, the first written grammar of a modern European language, the Gramática de la lengua castellana (or The Grammar of the Castilian Language) was presented by its author Antonio de Nebrija, to Queen Isabel I. When asked why such a text was important, the Bishop of Avila responded that the aims were imperialistic - a conquered people needed to be able to learn the language of their conquerors, and this book would help them to do just that.
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