24th May
Posted: 24 May 2015, 06:261487 The ten-year-old Lambert Simnel was crowned in Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, with the name of Edward VI in a bid to threaten King Henry VII's reign.
1530 A list of heretical books was drawn up in London. Tyndale's Bible was burnt.
1738 John Wesley first attended evensong at St Paul’s Cathedral, London, then went on to a meeting at Aldersgate where he experienced his conversion. This was the start of Wesley’s Methodism, and over 250 years later there are 54 million Methodists in 60 countries.
1809 Dartmoor Prison was opened to accommodate French prisoners of war. From 1850 it becomes a prison for convicts.
1819 Princess Alexandrina Victoria was born at Kensington Palace in London, the only daughter of the Duke of Kent. As Queen Victoria, she reigned for 63 years, from 1837 until her death in 1901. She married Prince Albert in 1840 and had four sons and five daughters. After Albert’s death in 1861, she went into virtual retirement.
1836 The birth, in York, of Joseph Rowntree, Quaker philanthropist, social reformer and chocalatier businessman.
1895 The actor Henry Irving became the first person from the theatre to be knighted. On his death he was cremated and his ashes buried in Westminster Abbey, thereby becoming the first person ever to be cremated prior to interment at Westminster.
1901 Seventy eight miners died in the Caerphilly pit disaster in South Wales.
1930 Amy Johnson landed at Darwin, Australia and became the first woman to fly from England to Australia.
1941 World War II: The German battleship Bismarck sank the Royal Navy's largest warship HMS Hood off Greenland with the loss of more than 1,400 lives. The ship exploded when a German shell hit the Hood's ammunition store.
1969 The Black and White Minstrel Show, at London's Victoria Palace, closed after completing 4,354 performances over a period of seven years.
1976 British Airways and Air France Concordes arrived at Dulles International Airport, Washington D.C. having made their first commercial crossing of the North Atlantic.
1978 Princess Margaret, sister of Queen Elizabeth II was divorced from her husband, Lord Snowdon, after 18 years of marriage.
1988 Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988 was enacted; a controversial amendment stating that a local authority could not intentionally promote homosexuality.
1989 A jury at the High Court in London awarded £600,000 damages to Sonia Sutcliffe, wife of the Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe, against the satirical magazine Private Eye.
1995 The death of Harold Wilson, Labour politician and Prime Minister from 1964-1970 and again from 1974-1976.
2003 Britain's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest failed to score a single point, a fact later blamed on the UK's stance during the Iraq conflict.
1530 A list of heretical books was drawn up in London. Tyndale's Bible was burnt.
1738 John Wesley first attended evensong at St Paul’s Cathedral, London, then went on to a meeting at Aldersgate where he experienced his conversion. This was the start of Wesley’s Methodism, and over 250 years later there are 54 million Methodists in 60 countries.
1809 Dartmoor Prison was opened to accommodate French prisoners of war. From 1850 it becomes a prison for convicts.
1819 Princess Alexandrina Victoria was born at Kensington Palace in London, the only daughter of the Duke of Kent. As Queen Victoria, she reigned for 63 years, from 1837 until her death in 1901. She married Prince Albert in 1840 and had four sons and five daughters. After Albert’s death in 1861, she went into virtual retirement.
1836 The birth, in York, of Joseph Rowntree, Quaker philanthropist, social reformer and chocalatier businessman.
1895 The actor Henry Irving became the first person from the theatre to be knighted. On his death he was cremated and his ashes buried in Westminster Abbey, thereby becoming the first person ever to be cremated prior to interment at Westminster.
1901 Seventy eight miners died in the Caerphilly pit disaster in South Wales.
1930 Amy Johnson landed at Darwin, Australia and became the first woman to fly from England to Australia.
1941 World War II: The German battleship Bismarck sank the Royal Navy's largest warship HMS Hood off Greenland with the loss of more than 1,400 lives. The ship exploded when a German shell hit the Hood's ammunition store.
1969 The Black and White Minstrel Show, at London's Victoria Palace, closed after completing 4,354 performances over a period of seven years.
1976 British Airways and Air France Concordes arrived at Dulles International Airport, Washington D.C. having made their first commercial crossing of the North Atlantic.
1978 Princess Margaret, sister of Queen Elizabeth II was divorced from her husband, Lord Snowdon, after 18 years of marriage.
1988 Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988 was enacted; a controversial amendment stating that a local authority could not intentionally promote homosexuality.
1989 A jury at the High Court in London awarded £600,000 damages to Sonia Sutcliffe, wife of the Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe, against the satirical magazine Private Eye.
1995 The death of Harold Wilson, Labour politician and Prime Minister from 1964-1970 and again from 1974-1976.
2003 Britain's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest failed to score a single point, a fact later blamed on the UK's stance during the Iraq conflict.