In June 1469, Princess Margaret of Denmark married James III, King of the Scots, at Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh. What unusual possessions were included as part of her dowry?
Answer: The Shetland and Orkney Islands. While the Danish King Christian I had originally pledged a cash dowry, he could not afford it, so the islands were used instead.
Source: Scotland by Richenda Miers
1429 – During the Hundred Years’ War with England, French heroine Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges the town of La Charité.
1572 – Death of John Know, Scottish protestant reformer, whose ‘Confession of Faith’ was adopted by the Scottish church in 1560.
1835 – The Texas Provincial Government establishes a horse-mounted police force, the Texas Rangers. Now known as the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety.
1922 – Nine Irish Republican Army members are executed by an Irish Free State firing squad, including famed English author Erskine Childers, arrested for illegally carrying a revolver. Childers will shake hands with each member of the firing squad.
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Thomas Kyd (1558-94)
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‘This melancholy London. I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.’
W.B. Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet and dramatist
Viking king. He united the English and Danish people to become the first ruler since the fall of Rome to rule over all of England. He ruled England through a combination of English and Scandinavian customs.
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