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30th January 1649: Charles I beheaded at Banqueting House

30th January 2020
Tagged as: Charles I, Civil War, England, English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell, Regicide

On the 30^th January 1649 King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland was executed outside the Banqueting House in London.

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5th November 1605: Guy Fawkes discovered during Gunpowder Plot

5th November 2019
Tagged as: Assassination, Britain, Catholicism, Church of England, England, Gunpowder, House of Lords, James I and VI, Politics, Protestantism, Regicide, Religion, Scotland

On the 5^th November 1605, the Gunpowder Plot was foiled when Guy or Guido Fawkes was discovered guarding 36 barrels of gunpowder that had been placed in an undercroft below the House of Lords in London.

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30th January 1649: Charles I beheaded at Banqueting House

5th November 1605: Guy Fawkes discovered during Gunpowder Plot

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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

24th October 1929: Black Thursday marks the start of the Wall Street Crash

23rd October 1739: The War of Jenkins’ Ear begins when England declare war on Spain

22nd October 1797: The first high altitude parachute descent

21st October 1805: The Battle of Trafalgar sees the British Navy under the command of Nelson defeat the combined fleets of France and Spain

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

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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