This Day in History

Susan · Post by **Susan** » Sun August 2nd, 2009, 12:08 pm

Today in royal history:

August 2, 1100 Suspicious death of William II in the New Forest, buried at Winchester Cathedral

August 2, 1589 - Assassination of Henri III of France by Jacques Clement at Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine; buried at the Basilica of Saint Denis

August 2, 1858 Birth of Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, second wife of William III of the Netherlands

August 2, 1868 Birth of Constantine I of Greece

Susan · Post by **Susan** » Mon August 3rd, 2009, 12:43 pm

Today in royal history:

August 3, 1271 - Death of John, son of Edward I, at Wallingford Castle, Berkshire, buried in Westminster Abbey
John was the eldest son and fourth child of Edward I and Eleanor of Castile. He died at age 5 in Wallingford Castle, Berkshire while in the care of his uncle Richard, Earl of Cornwall, who was taking care of his brother's children while he and his wife were on Crusade. John was buried in Westminster Abbey on the north side of Edward the Confessor's tomb.

August 3, 1460 - Death of James II of Scotland at Roxburgh Castle, buried at Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh
James died at age 29 when a cannon he was standing next to during a siege exploded.

August 3, 1770 Birth of Frederick William III, King of Prussia

August 3, 1872 - Birth of Haakon VII of Norway
Born Prince Carl of Denmark, he became King of Norway when the union between Sweden and Norway was dissolved in 1905.

August 3, 1986 - Birth of Prince Louis of Luxembourg, son of Grand Duke Henri

August 3, 1986 - Birth of Charlotte Casiraghi, daughter of Princess Caroline of Monaco

Rowan · Post by **Rowan** » Mon August 3rd, 2009, 4:05 pm

Today in non-royal history...

3 August 1492: Christopher Columbus departed from Palos de la Frontera with the Santa María, the Pinta and the Santa Clara (a.k.a. Niña) headed first to the Canary Islands. After restocking provisions and making repairs, the small fleet then set sail for what would turn out to be a 6 week voyage to discover a land he thought to be India.

Susan · Post by **Susan** » Tue August 4th, 2009, 12:46 pm

[quote=""Rowan""]Today in non-royal history...

3 August 1492: Christopher Columbus departed from Palos de la Frontera with the Santa María, the Pinta and the Santa Clara (a.k.a. Niña) headed first to the Canary Islands. After restocking provisions and making repairs, the small fleet then set sail for what would turn out to be a 6 week voyage to discover a land he thought to be India.[/quote]

Well, we could sort of relate it to royalty via Ferdinand and Isabella!

Susan · Post by **Susan** » Tue August 4th, 2009, 12:48 pm

Today in royal history:

August 4, 1338 - Death of Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I, buried at the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk
(Thomas was an ancestor of two of the wives of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard.)

August 4, 1514 - Wedding of Margaret Tudor (her 2nd), daughter of Henry VII, and Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus, at Kinnoul Church

August 4, 1699 Death of Maria Sofia of the Palatinate, wife of Pedro II of Portugal, in Lisbon, Portugal; buried at the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora, Lisbon

August 4, 1900 - Birth of The Honorable Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, wife of George VI, mother of Elizabeth II

August 4, 1906 - Birth of Marie-Jose of Belgium, wife of Umberto II of Italy

Ken · Post by **Ken** » Tue August 4th, 2009, 2:33 pm

August 4th, 1265. Battle of Evesham. Simon de Montfort and his son Hal killed by the lord Edward's (later Edward 1) army. Simon's body was mutilated and his hands, feet, head and privates were cut off. This defeat signalled the end of the so-called Baron's war.

Susan · Post by **Susan** » Wed August 5th, 2009, 12:36 pm

Today in royal history:

August 5, 1301 - Birth of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, son of Edward I, at Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire

August 5, 1828 Birth of Louise of the Netherlands, wife of Karl XV of Sweden and Norway

August 5, 1901 - Death of Victoria, Princess Royal, Queen Victoria's eldest daughter, wife of German Emperor Frederick III, mother of German Emperor William II, at Friedrichshof, Krönberg-Taunus, Germany, buried at Friedenskirche, Potsdam, Germany

Ash · Post by **Ash** » Wed August 5th, 2009, 2:50 pm

Forgot this - On Aug. 4, 1944, Anne Frank, 15, was arrested along with her sister, parents and four other people by German security after they had spent two years hiding from the Nazis in a building in Amsterdam. (Anne, who'd kept a now-famous diary during her time in hiding, died in March 1945 at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.)

Susan · Post by **Susan** » Wed August 5th, 2009, 4:07 pm

[quote=""Ash""]Forgot this - On Aug. 4, 1944, Anne Frank, 15, was arrested along with her sister, parents and four other people by German security after they had spent two years hiding from the Nazis in a building in Amsterdam. (Anne, who'd kept a now-famous diary during her time in hiding, died in March 1945 at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.)[/quote]

Ash, thanks for posting this. On my recent European trip, I visited the warehouse where Anne and her family hid. It was a very moving experience to stand in her room there. Because of a curriculum change, I will be teaching her diary this year. It will be a powerful thing to tell my students I was in the place she hid.

Ash · Post by **Ash** » Wed August 5th, 2009, 7:52 pm

You might also have them read Book Theif, about a young German girl dealing with the war in her village.