This happened exactly five years ago. Never found out what it was, but it's a handy little kitchen knife:
I looked up at the skylight in my study which is at the end of the garden just now and saw this... Knife-throwing competition ? Dropped by a magpie? Threat? A sign?
8 Apr 1521: Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of #Buckingham, summoned to #London#otd. He was executed on 17 May 1521 for having encompassed the King's (Henry VIII's death)
(Magdalene College Cambridge and Trinity College Cambridge - Stafford carrying the Sword of State)
1 Apr 1545: The foundation of Potosí (now in Bolivia) a city on a vast mountain of silver #otd Source of much of #Spain’s vast wealth for decades to come.
Embroidered picture depicting St Mary Magdalene reading while reclining in the Garden of Golgotha, the burial place of Jesus. Instruments of the Passion and of the Resurrection on the borders.
29 Mar 1626: Charles I defends the Duke of Buckingham against #Parliament in a speech written by William Laud #otd#HistParl Almost exactly year earlier on his deathbed, James VI & I had asked Charles to protect Buckingham.