Up to 11 men may have sought election to the 1614 parliament to avoid paying their debts.
Quote of the Day
"Revolution is not an apple that falls when it's ripe. You have to make it fall.
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~ Che Guevara
On This Day
350General Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans and proclaims himself Emperor.
1486The Houses of York and Lancaster were united when Henry VII married Elizabeth of York (the eldest daughter of Edward IV).
1562The Council of Trent was reconvened for its final time. It set out Catholicism's response to the Reformation.
1778Captain James Cook became the first European to visit the Hawaiian Islands, which he named the Sandwich Islands.
178811 British ships with 800 convicts landed at Botany Bay, Australia, intending to found the first penal colony. They moved to a more suitable location eight days later.
1871Wilhelm I was proclaimed German Emperor, 170 years to the day after Frederick I crowned himself King in Prussia.
1904Hollywood's quintessential leading man, Cary Grant, was born in Bristol, as Archibald Leach.
1919The Paris Peace Conference began. It resulted, among other things, in the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations.
1936Rudyard Kipling, Nobel Prize winner and author of The Jungle Book died. His ashes are buried in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey.