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@HistoryRls

News and Information from the Royal Latin School History Department 📕📗Run by Sasha, Abi, Rose and Eleanor

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This Week in History 6/2/1918: Women aged 30 and over are granted the vote in Great Britain🗳️ 7/2/1992: The Maastricht Treaty is signed by 12 countries from the European Community to create the European Union🇪🇺 Part 1 @TheRoyalLatin
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8/2/1587: Mary, Queen of Scots, is beheaded after being convicted of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth I👑 9/2/1972: British government declares a state of emergency after month-long coal miners' strike⛏️ 10/2/1916: Military conscription begins in Britain🪖
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Our history captains along with Ms Breene were honoured to be invited to attend the Buckingham Civic Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony this morning @TheRoyalLatin @RLS_Headteacher
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At the service, Abi and Eleanor read poignant Holocaust poetry to the local community members in attendance as well as MP Greg Smith @TheRoyalLatin @RLS_Headteacher
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This Week in History 23/1/2020: China locks down the city of Wuhan in an effort to control the city's COVID-19 epidemic☣️ 24/1/1848: Carpenter James Wilson Marshall found nuggets of gold in California's American River, ushering in a gold rush🪙 Part 1 @TheRoyalLatin
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25/1/1890: National Afro-American League founded in Chicago, one of earliest civil rights organizations in America🇺🇸 26/1/1950: Constitution of independent India comes into effect; Rajendra Prasad elected India's first president🇮🇳 Part 2
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This Week in History 5/12/1848: US President James K. Polk triggers the Gold Rush of 1849 by confirming a gold discovery in California🪙 6/12/1921: Anglo-Irish treaty signed, ending the three year Irish War of Independence🇮🇪 @TheRoyalLatin
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7/12/1941: the Japanese military attacks the US naval base at Pearl Harbour⛴️ 8/12/1915: John McCrae's poem 'In Flanders Fields' appears anonymously in Punch magazine🪖 9/12/1868: The world's first traffic lights are installed near Westminster Bridge🚦
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This Week in History 21/11/164 BC: the rededication of the second temple in Jerusalem, commemorated since as Hanukkah🕎 22/11/1963: President John F. Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas🇺🇸 @TheRoyalLatin
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23/11/1499: Pretender to the Tudor throne Perkin Warbeck hanged for attempting to escape the Tower of London🏰 24/11/1859: Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species"🦎 25/11/1955: Race segregation forbidden on trains and buses between US states🚍
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Year 12 getting ready to welcome you to the Options Evening tonight. Do pop along to room 21, main block this evening @TheRoyalLatin
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This Week in History 14/11/1994 First public trains run through the channel tunnel linking England and France🚇 15/11/1920: The League of Nations holds its first meeting in Geneva🇨🇭 16/11/1532: Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro captures Inca Emperor Atahualpa @TheRoyalLatin
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17/11/1558: Queen Elizabeth I ascends to the English throne👑 18/11/1916: The end of the Battle of the Somme after over 4 months of bloody conflict🪖 19/11/1933: Women allowed to vote in Spain🇪🇸 20/11/1945: the Nuremberg War trials begin with 24 Nazi leaders put on trial
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Members of 7V had a chance to view photos of Arthur Robbins who was with Howard Carter 100 years ago when the tomb of Tutankhamun was opened! @TheRoyalLatin
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This Week in History: 7/11/2020: Joe Biden declared winner of the US Presidential race🇺🇸 8/11/1923: Hitler and the Nazi stage the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich🍺 9/11/1989: The Berlin Wall was opened by the East German government🇩🇪 10/11/1793: France ends the forced worship of God🇫🇷
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11/11/1918: World War I ends🪖 12/11/1933: First known photo of so-called Loch Ness monster is taken by Hugh Gray🦕 13/11/1856: the Big Ben bell chimes for the first time🔔 @TheRoyalLatin
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This Week in History 31/10/2011: the World population reaches 7 billion inhabitants🌍 1/11/1348: the Black Death reaches London around this date🤧 2/11/2000: The first resident crew, including one American and two Russians, arrived at the International Space Station.🚀 Part 1
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3/11/1534: The Act of Supremacy is passed, making Henry VIII Head of the Church of England👑 4/11/1922: Howard Carter discovered the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun🔎 5/11/1605: Guy Fawkes attempts to blow up King James I and the British Parliament🎇 Part 2 @TheRoyalLatin
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This Week in History 17/10/79 AD: the date that Mt. Vesuvius is thought to have erupted, destroying Pompeii🌋 18/10/1922: BBC founded🎥 19/10/1781: British surrender in Yorktown, ending of the US Revolutionary War🇺🇸 Part 1 @TheRoyalLatin
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20/10/1963: Nelson Mandela and 8 others on trial for conspiracy charges in South Africa 🇿🇦 21/10/1805: Battle of Trafalgar, Admiral Nelson defeats combined French and Spanish fleet🌊 22/10/1879 Thomas Edison perfects carbonised cotton filament light bulb💡 Part 2
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This Week in History 10/10/1903: Women's Social and Political Union formed by Emmeline Pankhurst👩‍💼 11/10/1521: Pope Leo X titles King Henry VIII 'Defender of the faith'👑 12/10/1900: First Modern Submarine is commissioned by the US Navy🌊 @TheRoyalLatin
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13/10/1943: Italy declares war on former axis partner Germany🇮🇹 14/10/1066: Norman invasion of England and the Battle of Hastings🏹 15/10/1815: Napoleon Bonaparte begins exile on Island of St Helena⛵ 16/10/1916: Margaret Sanger opens first birth control clinic in the US🤰
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The First 'This Week in History' of the new year! 12/9/1992: Astronaut Mae Jemison became the first African American woman to fly in space👩‍🚀 13/9/1501: Michaelangelo begins work on his Statue of David👨‍🎨 Part 1 @TheRoyalLatin
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14/9/1901: US President William McKinley died, 8 days after being shot🇺🇸 15/9/1821: Multiple Central American countries granted independence from Spain 🇨🇷🇸🇻🇬🇹🇭🇳🇳🇮 16/9/1795: the Mayflower ship departs Plymouth for America🌊 Part 2
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This Week in History 11/7/1804: Alexander Hamilton fatally shot in a duel against Aaron Burr🇺🇸 12/7/1543: Henry VIII married his last wife Catherine Parr👸 13/7/1985: The benefit concert Live Aid took place🎸 Part 1 @TheRoyalLatin
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14/7/1789: A Paris mob stormed the Bastille, capturing the prison🇫🇷 15/7/1965: Space probe Mariner 4 returned close up pictures of the surface of Mars🚀 16/7/1945: The US tested the first atomic bomb in New Mexico 17/7/1955: Disneyland opened in Anaheim, California 🏰 Part 2
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Our team of students ready to help at the open day this afternoon!!!😁 @TheRoyalLatin
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If you're here for the 11+ open day come and see the History Department 4:30-8! @TheRoyalLatin
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We are in Room 27, top floor of main block!
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Last week I completed some work experience at the Discover Bucks Museum in Aylesbury. The museum contains lots of artefacts from all over Buckinghamshire. This thread will show some of what they have to offer. -Sasha, year 12 @TheRoyalLatin @BucksMuseum
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Royal Bucks Hussars hat worn by Stanley Freeman who took part in one of the last ever cavalry charges of the British army and part of the Lenborough hoard found in 2014.
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This Week in History 4/7/1776: Declaration of Independence approved by the Second Continental Congress🇺🇸 5/7/1996: the first successfully cloned mammal, Dolly the Sheep was born🐑 6/7/1885: Louis Pasteur successfully tested an antirabies vaccine💉 Part 1 @TheRoyalLatin
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7/7/1550: Chocolate was thought to have been introduced to Europe🍫 8/7/1497: Vasco da Gama sailed from Lisbon to India, opening a sea route from Western Europe to Asia🌊 9/7/1762: Catherine the Great overthrew Peter III, beginning her reign as empress of Russia👑 Part 2
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This Week in History 27/6/1929: The first demonstration of colour television takes place in New York📺 28/6/1914: Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated, leading to the outbreak of WW1 29/6/1613: The Globe Theatre in London destroyed in a fire🎭 Part 1 @TheRoyalLatin
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30/6/1934: The Night of the Long Knives, Hitler ordered the execution of many members of the Nazi SA 1/7/1535: Sir Thomas More put on trial for treason for refusing to accept Henry VIII as Head of the Church of England⛪ Part 2
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This Week in History 20/6/1837: Queen Victoria became Queen of England 👑 21/6/1791: Fleeing French King Louis XVI and family captured at Varennes-en-Argonne 🇫🇷 Part 1 @TheRoyalLatin
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22/6/1633: Accused of heresy, Galileo was forced to recant his support of the belief that the Sun was the centre of the solar system ☀️ 23/6/2016: the UK voted for Brexit 🇬🇧 24/6/1497: John Cabot became the first European since the Vikings to set foot in North America 🌊 Part 2
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