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Hace 4 días · The divide intensified after the viceroy Lord Linlithgow (governed 1936–43) informed India’s political leaders and populace that they were at war with Germany and Hindu and Muslim leaders split on whether to support the war effort.
Hace 2 días · Mary Stuart was born on December 8, 1542, at Linlithgow Palace in Scotland, the only legitimate child of King James V of Scotland and his French wife, Mary of Guise. Following her father's death just days after her birth, Mary became Queen of Scots at the tender age of six days old, thrusting her into the complex world of medieval politics and dynastic rivalries.
Hace 18 horas · The following day, the Viceroy, Lord Linlithgow, without consulting Indian political leaders, announced that India had entered the war along with Britain. There were widespread protests in India. After meeting with Jinnah and with Gandhi, Linlithgow announced that negotiations on self-government were suspended for the duration of the war.
Hace 2 días · Proposal for Conditional Support: In a letter dated August 27, 1942, addressed to the Viceroy, Lord Linlithgow, Savarkar offered conditional support for the British war effort. He proposed that if the British agreed to grant India complete independence after the war, the Hindu Mahasabha would provide their support in the war against ...
Hace 2 días · 1943–1944. Total deaths. Estimated 0.8 to 3.8 million [A] in Bengal alone. The Bengal famine of 1943 was an anthropogenic famine in the Bengal province of British India (present-day Bangladesh, West Bengal and eastern India) during World War II. An estimated 0.8–3.8 million people died, [A] in the Bengal region (present-day Bangladesh and ...
Hace 5 días · I don’t know if it was by design or accident that Mary, Queen of Scots’s tomb is beside that of the mother of her second husband, Lord Darnley. Margaret Douglas’ mother was Margaret Tudor (1489-1541), daughter of Henry VII and widow of James IV of Scotland, who had married Archibald Douglas, the sixth Earl of Angus in 1514 (they divorced in 1527).
Hace 4 días · James called an assembly of the Highland chiefs at Inverness in August 1428, and that resulted in the Lord of the Isles being imprisoned. His kinsmen rose against the king, and though the royal forces were successful at first, the lord’s cousin, Donald Balloch, led Clan MacDonald and their allies to victory over the king’s forces led by the Earl of Mar at the Battle of Inverlochy in 1431.
