Richard Cavendish

The Duke of Burgundy, named 'bold' for his bravery at the age of 14 in the Battle of Poitiers, died on April 27th, 1404.

Oxford beat Cambridge in the hundreth meeting on April 3rd, 1954.

The first pope to call himself ‘servant of the servants of God’ died on March 12th, 604.

The ‘most controversial character in the history of discovery’ was born on March 9th, 1454. But who was Amerigo Vespucci?

The events leading up to Britain and France's declarations of war on Russia on successive days on 27 and 28 March 1854.

The clergyman and chemist Joseph Priestley died February 6th, 1804, aged seventy-one.

The Battle of Port Arthur began on February 8th, 1904.

The King of Sicily died on February 26th, 1154.

The Hampton Court Conference opened on January 14th, 1604. The most important product of the conference was the King James Bible.

France ceded Naples to Spain on January 31st, 1504.