RT @parthaskar
Today…in 1806, was born Isambard Kingdom Brunel -one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history.
A resident of #Portsmouth

If you don’t know about him?
Do have a read on this Sunday

Astonishing feats of achievement by an individual

#HistoryTrivia 😊

In 1642 there was great unease about the execution of a godly Catholic priest, Hugh Green, outside Dorchester. There was a reluctance to pull the ladder from under him (they had to get a clown) and then to cut him down while still alive. The man who was to do the quartering was a timorous barber. The barber took so long that Green came to his senses and sat upright.
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In 1102 there was a dispute over whether Canterbury or York had the supremacy in the Church. At an ecclesiatical council in Westminster, Archbishop Gerald of York threw a tantrum because Archbishop Anselm of Canterbury had a chair that was raised higher than Gerald's. Gerald refused to sit down until chairs were on the same level.  Later that year the Pope censured Gerald and ordered him to swear an oath to Anselm.
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Can you name these African scholars who have contributed to World History? #historyknowledge #historytrivia #blackhistory #masterteachers

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BlkHistStudies/status/1613458306734952449

In 1295, King Philippe IV "le Bel" of France debased the Sous to afford state debts, resulting in rapid inflation. His attempts to revaluate the Sous in 1306 led to riots in Paris and him seeking shelter in the Templar's Paris fortress. #HistoryTrivia | Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

The Knossos Palace in Crete, built circa 1650 BCE. Icon of the "Minoan" Civilization of Ancient Greece. We call them "Minoans" after the legendary king Minos... What they called themselves is a question that we may never know for certain. #HistoryTrivia

1556 John Noyes was executed at Litchfield, Suffolk. To get burning coals to start the blaze, officers had to break down the doors of a house where there was a single remaining chimney which had smoke coming out (all other fires in the village being extinguished). It was a forlorn gesture of neighbourly solidarity with the local shoemaker. Killing people in their own parishes was unpopular.
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#history #HistoryTrivia #Tudor

A law passed in 1539 made it a capital offence for a priest to marry a woman. (Strangely, keeping a woman as a concubine resulted only in confiscation of property.) A late amendment allowed married priests three weeks to "put away" their wives without penalty. Archbishop Cranmer sent his wife and children to Germany.

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After the French had been defeated at the Battle of Brémule (20 August, 1119), Henry returned the captured magnificent warhorses to William Clito and Louis the Fat (VI) as humiliating gifts.

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During the Siege of Oxford 1644 there was an outbreak of the plague and cats and dogs were killed as it was thought they were responsible for the spread. All this did was increase the local rat population.

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During the Siege of Oxford 1644 there was an outbreak of the plague and cats and dogs were killed as it thought they were responsible for the spread. All this did was increase the local rat population.

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#history #historytrivia

In medieval England you often had to pop across the channel to sort out a dispute. Henry II kept 25 ships on regular standby for making the crossing. Thomas Becket had 6, the Queen Eleanor had 1.

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In the retribution that followed the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, Flemish widows in the city of London were allowed to take part in the executions of the convicted rioters who were beheaded for beheading their merchant husbands only a few weeks before. Flemish wives struggled with heavy axes and killed their husbands’ murderers. The justice was chillingly biblical.

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