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1st |
St Hugh of Grenoble,1052-1131, Bishop and co-founder of the Carthusians. |
| April Fools Day or
Hunting the Gowk. ( cuckoo) Long established festival,
possibly to celebrate the end of winter and
beginning of spring, from the Roman Saturnalia or Kalends. |
| Amalgamation of
Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) and Royal Flying Corps(RFC)as the
RAF. 1918 |
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St Gilbert, Bishop
of Caithness, died 1240 |
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Reginald Heber,
Bishop of Calcutta and prominent hymn writer, died Trichinopoly
1826 |
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Robert III, King
of Scotland, died 1406 |
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2nd |
Constantine, King
of Scotland, died 874 |
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3rd |
Richard of Wyche, Bishop
of Chichester, died 1253, is still remembered for his care of
the poor and sick, his tomb is still visible in Chichester
Cathedral. Some local alms houses are still
known as St Richard's, and he is patron of the
Coachman's Guild in Milan. |
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John Napier of
Merchiston died 1617 |
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4th |
St Ambrose, Bishop of
Milan, died 397, championed - with Basil the Great - the
Church's liberty against secular encroachment. Also a protagonist of
Origen's school of thought. |
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Martin Luther King
assassinated in Memphis, Tennnessee 1968 |
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Grinling Gibbons born, 1648,
famous wood carver who worked with Wren on St Paul's Cathedral |
| 6th |
Richard I, the Lionheart, died near
Limoges,1199.Famous Crusader but irresponsible King |
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Robert Peary became the first man to
reach the North Pole 1909 |
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First modern Olympic Games began in
Athens, 1896 |
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7th |
John Baptiste de la Salle1651-1719,
founder of the Brothers of the Christian Schools.
Present day Approved Schools are a development of his
reformatories for disturbed boys. |
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Dick Turpin, the notorious highwayman, was hanged at Knavesmire,
York 1739 . |
| 8th |
First regular transatlantic
steamship crossing by the Great Western, taking 15 days.1838 |
| 9th |
Lord Lovat, Scottish Jacobite,
beheaded on Tower Hill for high treason. 1747 |
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St Dotto, Abbot in Orkney, 6th
Cy. |
| 11th |
Buchenwald, the first
of the notorious concentration camps, liberated by the Allies 1945, |
| 12th |
First non-stop flight from London to Paris
made by a Frenchman, Pierre Prier in 1911. It took 4 hours. |
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Yuri Gagarin, Russian cosmonaut,
,
orbited the earth in 108 minutes - the first man to do so.1961 |
| 13th |
St Guinoch of
Scotland, 9th Cy. |
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Edict of Nantes,
1598 |
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Thomas
Jefferson born 1743, he drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Richard Trevithick born 1771. He built and demonstrated the
first steam propelled vehicle |
| 14th |
Philip, Grandson of Louis XIV,
called to the throne of Spain, arrived in Madrid on 14th April 1701,. To
create the greatest magnificence for his arrival the City and Church authorities had laid on a splendid
auto-da-fé and had 14 Jews ready for burning. Philip felt that this was
overdoing things a bit and had the Jews deported. |
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Earl of Bothwell died 1577 |
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President Abraham Lincoln
shot by John Wilkes Booth1865. He died the following day |
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SS Titanic, designed to
be unsinkable, struck
an iceberg and sank the following day with a loss of more than
1,500 lives. 1912 |
| 16th |
Culloden 1746 |
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St Magnus of Orkney,
1104 |
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Bernadette Soubiroux.1844-79,
visionary of Lourdes and nun. In1858 at 14 years old
,within a period of 6 months she had 18 visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary who ordered the
building of a church at Massabielle and told Bernadette to drink
from the spring which produces 27,000gallons per week..
The visions were principally concerned with the need for prayer
and penance. Apart from the period of the visions
her life was humdrum in the extreme. |
| 17th |
Martin Luther appeared before
the Diet of Worms, prior to his excommunication.1521 |
| 18th |
Lucrezia Borgia,
daughter of Pope Alexander VI by his Mistress, Vanozza dei
Cattanei born 1480, patroness of the arts and accused (perhaps wrongly) of
poisoning her adversaries
Lord Jeffreys, 'Hanging Judge' died of dissipation
in the Tower of London. 1689. |
| 19th |
Robert II, King of Scotland, died
1390 |
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St Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury,
known for personal austerity and lavish almsgiving.
Captured in 1011 by Danish invaders, he refused to pay a ransom of
£3000 and was
killed by his infuriated captors with the ox bones from their
dinner plates at the end of one
of their drunken feasts. He is buried in St Paul's
Cathedral in London |
| 20th |
St Serf or Servanus of
Scotland, 5th Cy. Patron St.of the Orkney Isles. He is also
called the Apostle of West Fife. |
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Captain James Cook discovered New South
Wales. 1770 |
| 21st |
St Eingan or Enean, King of
Scots. About 590. |
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Baron von Richthofen,
the 'Red Baron' German ace fighter pilot in World War 1 was shot
down and killed. Friedrich Froebel (1782-1852)
born. Founder of the
kindergarten system of education.
Charlotte Bronte (1816-55) born. Eldest of the Bronte
sisters. |
| 23rd |
St George, patron saint of England.
He died, c.303, in Lydda (Diaspolis) persecuted by Diocletian
and Maxximian. The story of the dragon finishes with George
telling the people not to be afraid, if they would believe in
Jesus Christ and be baptized he would rid them of the
monster. The king and his people agreed,
George killed the dragon and 15,000 men were baptized.
Richard the Lionheart, at the siege of Antioch, had visions of SS George and
Demetrius foretelling the defeat of the
Saracens. He placed himself and his army under
George's protection and gained the City. |
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Williams Shakespeare & Wordsworth died 1616 &
1850 respectively
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| 24th |
St Wilfrid c.633-709, apostolic
pioneer, monastic founder, builder of churches and patron of
arts |
| 25th |
Mark, possibly John Mark,
travelled
widely after Christ's death. His body was
brought to Venice, early in the 9th century, where it lies in the
rebuilt basilica, with the magnificent murals of his life, death
and translation |
| 28th |
League of Nations founded 1919 |
| 29th |
Catherine of Siena, Dominican nun and
influential spiritual leader in the Middle Ages, died 1380 |
| 30th |
Pius V 1504-72, Dominican friar,
bishop and pope, noted for his monastic austerity, reforming
activities,
defence of Christendom against Islam,
kindness to the poor and sick. |
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