On This Day
1472 – Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland in lieu of a dowry for Margaret of Denmark.
1685 – French explorer René-Robert Cavelier establishes Fort St. Louis at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France’s claim to Texas.
1798 – Prince Louis-Alexandre Berthier, Napoleon’s chief of staff, Marshal of France and Sovereign Prince of Neuchâtel, removes His Holiness Pope Pius VI from power.
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HistoryWow’s Quick Shot Videos
A short, sharp hit of history in video format. Acclaimed Irish playwright and novelist Oscar Wilde was the toast of London society in the 1890s until things came decidedly unstuck through an association with a young British aristocrat, Lord Alfred Douglas, known as ‘Bosie’.
The source for this HistoryWow video is: Oscar and Bosie - A Fatal Passion by Trevor Fisher; General Historical Texts.
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Who Am I?
- I was born in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1809
- My mother had been a slave, but she was freed as a young age, and I grew up a free man.
- I immigrated to Liberia in 1829, part of the movement to establish a country on the African continent for former African American slaves and their free black descendants.
- I opened a store in Monrovia, and later engaged in politics, rising in prominence to become the first Black American President (1848-1856) when Liberia became independent on July 27, 1847.
- After office I served as a general in the Liberian army, before serving as the country’s President (1872-1876) for a second term.
Last week’s answer:
Agnes Sorel (1422-1450)
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HistoryWow’s Highlighted Historical Quotation
“Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this; one dog does not change a bone with another.”
Adam Smith (1723-1790), British economistSource: Forty Thousand Quotations by C.N. Douglas
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HistoryWow’s Featured Historical Figure of Note
Bartolommeo Eustachio (1520-1574)Italian anatomist. A pioneer of modern anatomy, he discovered the Eustachian tube in the ear and the Eustachian valve of the heart. Professor of anatomy at Rome, he wrote Opuscula anatomica in 1564, and Tabulae anatomicae in 1714.
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