The Castlereagh-Canning Duel
The two politicians fought on September 21st, 1809.
Richard Cavendish
The First Flying Trapeze
The circus act was first performed on 12 November 1859.
Pu Yi, last Emperor of China, is pardoned
The last of the Manchu emperors received a formal pardon on December 4th, 1959.
Birth of Ludwig Zamenhof, creator of Esperanto
The creator of the world's most widely spoken constructed language was born on December 15th, 1859.
Samuel Pepys begins his diary
The diarist began his work on January 1st 1660.
The Saar plebiscite
Richard Cavendish remembers January 13th 1935.
Galileo observes the satellites of Jupiter
The astrononer made a remarkable discovery on January 7th, 1610.
Napoleon divorces Josephine
The Emperor divorced his first wife on December 14th, 1809.
The House of Lords Rejects the 1909 People’s Budget
The budget proposed by the Liberal government was 'a social and political revolution of the first magnitude'. After passing the Commons, it was voted down by the House of Lords on 30 November 1909.
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry
Richard Cavendish recalls the slave liberation movement in 19th-century Kansas.