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8th February 1587: Mary Queen of Scots executed in the great hall of Fotheringhay Castle in Northamptonshire

8th February 2022
Tagged as: Assassination, Babington Plot, Elizabeth I, Elizabethan, Execution, Mary, Mary Stuart, Plot, Queen of Scots, Treason

Having been held for 19 years in a variety of castles and manor houses around the British Isles, Mary was accused of plotting to kill Elizabeth in 1586.

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17th November 1558: Queen Elizabeth I’s reign begins after the death of Mary I

17th November 2019
Tagged as: Armada, Catholicism, Elizabeth I, Elizabethan, England, Henry VIII, James I and VI, Monarchy, Parliament, Protes, Shakespeare, Spain

On the 17^th November 1558, Elizabeth I succeeded her half-sister Mary to become queen of England.

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8th February 1587: Mary Queen of Scots executed in the great hall of Fotheringhay Castle in Northamptonshire

17th November 1558: Queen Elizabeth I’s reign begins after the death of Mary I

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

4th July 1950: Radio Free Europe broadcasts for the first time

3rd July 1938: World speed record for steam locomotives set by Number 4468 Mallard at just under 126mph

2nd July 1964: Civil Rights Act signed into law by Lyndon B. Johnson

1st July 1903: The first Tour de France cycling race begins, taking place over nineteen days and six stages

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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