Pepys’s Marriage to Elizabeth de St Michel
The bride was fifteen and the groom twenty-two, when they married on December 1st, 1655.
Richard Cavendish
Robert Koch’s Nobel Prize for Medicine
Richard Cavendish remembers the events of December 12th, 1905.
The Foundation of Sinn Fein
The organisation which would become the political arm of the Irish Republican Army was founded as a nationalist pressure group on November 28th, 1905.
The Birth of Marie Antoinette
The future Queen of France was born on November 2nd, 1755
David Livingstone Reaches the Victoria Falls
David Livingstone reached the Victoria Falls on November 17th, 1855.
Death of the Emperor Akbar
The Mughal emperor died on 25 October 1605.
Latimer and Ridley Burned at the Stake
The Oxford Martyrs were killed on 16 October 1555.
The Fauves at the Salon d’Automne
The exhibition that opened in Paris, on October 15th, 1905, 'shocked many who saw, and many more who did not.'
The Death of Dr Barnardo
September 19th, 1905
Juan Perón Overthrown
Following his re-election in 1952, Juan Peron was overthrown on September 19th, 1955.