And the next date in the calendar is....

[Pickwick]

August 30 1483 Death of Louis XI of France

 

[MassRuss]

August 31, 1888 - MaryAnn "Polly" Nichols is murdered in Whitechapel, London, by Jack the Ripper. 1st known victim.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Nichols

 

[unloadonme]

19 August 1596 – Birth of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Stuart,_Queen_of_Bohemia

What happened to 20 to 28 August? You guys!!!

20 August 1914 – Death of Pope Pius X

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_X

 

[MassRuss]

Oops!!

August 21, 1991 - Coup attempt against Gorbachev fails

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Soviet_coup_d'état_attempt

 

[Pickwick]

What happened to 20 to 28 August? You guys!!!

Oops!!

Sorry I was only following the last post...... I sound like a military guy having massacred thousands of people and saying "sorry I was only following the orders"....

Well so here we are...

August 22 1791 Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue. Ending by the Independence of Haiti in 1825.

 

[MassRuss]

^^Lol. The buck stopped with me. Blame the vampire!!

August 23, 1305 - Sir William Wallace hanged, drawn & quartered for high treason (he wasn't following orders, he gave them!!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wallace

 

[unloadonme]

24 August 1759 – Birth of William Wilberforce

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wilberforce

 

[MassRuss]

August 25, 1530 -Birth of Ivan the Terrible

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_the_Terrible

 

[unloadonme]

26 August 1346 – Hundred Years' War: Another French defeat at the Battle of Crécy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Crécy

 

[MassRuss]

August 27, 1776 - Battle of Long Island - The British under General Howe defeat the American Revolutionaries under George Washington in what is now Brooklyn, NYC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Long_Island

An interesting historical tidbit from the Revolutionary period. Some revolutionary period houses on the coast, especially in New England, Long Island & New Jersey sill have the chimneys painted black & white. This was a sign to British seamen who may have needed a place to hide, that the houses belonged to Loyalists. I'm a history nut, & I never knew this till I just read a novel which took place on Cape Cod, MA

 

[unloadonme]

^ I never knew that!

28 August 1906 – Birth of Sir John Betjeman, Poet Laureate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Betjeman

 

[MassRuss]

August 29, 1778 - Battle of Rhode Island (AKA Battle of Quaker Hill, or the Siege of Newport). For all of it's 3 aliases. the battle, between British troops & revolutionaries, was Indecisive!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Rhode_Island

 

[unloadonme]

30 August 1797 – Birth of Mary Shelley

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley

 

[MassRuss]

August 31, 1422 - Death, from dysentery, of King Henry V of England

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_V_of_England

 

[Pickwick]

Eww Poor Man !!!!!!!!!!

September 1 1715 King Louis XIV of France dies of gangrene after a reign of 72 years—the longest of any major European monarch.

 

[unloadonme]

2 September 1883 – Birth of Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archduchess_Elisabeth_Marie_of_Austria

 

[MassRuss]

September 3, 1189 - Richard I (Lionheart) is crowned @ Westminster

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_I_of_England

 

[Pickwick]

September 4 1870 "Emperor" (dictator, usurpateur, thief...........) Napoleon III of "France" (my ass) is deposed and the Third Republic is declared.

 

[unloadonme]

5 September 1548 – Death of Queen Catherine Parr

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Parr

 

[MassRuss]

September 6, 1666 - Birth of Ivan V of Russia, co Tsar with Peter I

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_V