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Hace 2 días · 1 Athelstan was king of Wessex and the first king of all England. 2 James VI of Scotland became also James I of England in 1603. Upon accession to the English throne, he styled himself "King of Great Britain" and was so proclaimed.
Hace 4 días · The offices of gentleman of the bedchamber were in the gift of the Crown. (fn. 1) From 1660 the office of first gentleman was invariably coupled with that of groom of the stole.
Hace 1 día · The burly man's name was Doctor Samuel Johnson, and he wrote to Mrs. Thrale and her husband a brief account of what had happened since the Friday before. On that day Lord George Gordon and the mob went to Westminster, and that night the rioters burnt the Catholic chapel in Duke Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields.
Hace 5 días · His eldest son George Gordon was sentenced to death for treason in 1563, but was later pardoned. In 1567, he restored and inherited his father's title, became the fifth earl, and served as the Lord Justice of Scotland.
Hace 5 días · It afterwards followed the descent of the manor, to the Marquess of Huntly, who still owned it in 1916, but it passed soon after to the Rev. W. F. Buttle, the present patron. The rectory was united to that of Chesterton by Order in Council of March 1863.
Hace 3 días · The office of prime minister developed in Britain in the 18th century, when King George I ceased attending meetings of his ministers and it was left to powerful premiers to act as government chief executive. Sir Robert Walpole is generally considered to have been Britain’s first prime minister.
Hace 3 días · Reviews in History. The Gordon Riots: Politics, Culture and Insurrection in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain – Reviews In History. See Author's Response. For one momentous week, London was convulsed with the most tumultuous series of riots, disorder and arson that its inhabitants had ever experienced.
