On this day ......

[unloadonme]

15 October 1881 – Birth of Sir P G Wodehouse, KBE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._G._Wodehouse

 

[Pickwick]

16 October 1793 Marie Antoinette, widow of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.........................................................................

 

[unloadonme]

16 October 1854 – Birth of Oscar Wilde

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

 

[MassRuss]

October 16, 1384 - Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she was a woman!!

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

 

[Pickwick]

16 October 1610 French king Louis XIII is crowned in Rheims.

 

[MassRuss]

October 17, 1853 - Birth of Grand Dutchess Maria Alexandrova, later Duchess of Edinburgh & Duchess of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha

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

 

[Pickwick]

18 October 1541 death of Margaret Tudor, English wife of James IV of Scotland

 

[Pickwick]

16 October 1610 French king Louis XIII is crowned in Rheims.

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[unloadonme]

18 October 1865 – Death of Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, KG, GCB, PC, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_John_Temple,_3rd_Viscount_Palmerston

 

[MassRuss]

October 19, 1813 - Battle of Leipzig concludes. One of Napoleon's worst defeats

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

 

[unloadonme]

19 October 1610 – Birth of James Butler, 1st Duke and 12th Earl of Ormonde.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Butler,_1st_Duke_of_Ormonde

 

[MassRuss]

October 20, 1632 - Birth of English architect Sir Christopher Wren

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

 

[unloadonme]

20 October 1882 – Birth of Bela Lugosi

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

 

[Pickwick]

19 October 1851 death of Marie Thérèse Charlotte, Madame Royale of France the eldest child of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. She has been Queen of France for twenty minutes and thus marks the shortest reign of History in France.

20 October 1720 Caribbean pirate Calico Jack is captured by the Royal Navy. ( Fortunately it wasn't Sparrow Jack )

21 October 1945 Women's suffrage: Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time. (And now we have the FEMEN...)

 

[MassRuss]

October 21, 2013 - Marriage equality comes to NJ. 14 states & DC.

 

[unloadonme]

21 October 1805 – Death at the Battle of Trafalgar of Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, KB

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Nelson,_1st_Viscount_Nelson

 

[MassRuss]

October 22, 1844 - Birth of French actress Sarah Bernhardt

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

 

[Pickwick]

22 October 741 death of Charles Martel, Frankish military leader and politician, Pepin the Short's father, who gave his name to the second dynasty of Frankish kings "Carolingian".

 

[unloadonme]

22 October 1689 – Birth of King John V of Portugal

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

 

[Pickwick]

23 October 1707 The first Parliament of Great Britain meets.