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2 giorni fa · In 1615 the king made his first visit to Cambridge, Prince Charles and the Elector Palatine having come two years before. The royal visit was as great an occasion as the famous visit of Elizabeth in 1564.
3 giorni fa · His son Charles Edward Stuart led a Jacobite rising in 1745, but was again defeated. The risings were the last serious attempts to restore the Stuart dynasty. Charles's claims passed to his younger brother Henry Benedict Stuart, the Dean of the College of Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church.
3 giorni fa · The year following the retirement of Liveing and Marshall (June 1909) the University celebrated both the centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the fiftieth anniversary of the Origin of Species, perhaps the greatest intellectual achievement of any Cambridge man of modern times.
3 giorni fa · Charles II arrived in London on the 30th birthday of what had already been a remarkably eventful life. He came of age in Europe, a child of diplomatic intrigues, broken promises, and unfulfilled hopes. By necessity he had developed a thick skin and a shrewd political realism.
5 giorni fa · The annals of 18th-century Cambridge group themselves round three sets of events: the controversies in which Bentley took part, the policy of the Duke of Newcastle as Chancellor, and the abortive reform movement of the 1770's associated with the name of John Jebb.
5 giorni fa · Frances Teresa Stuart, duchess of Richmond and Lennox was a favourite mistress of Charles II of Great Britain. She also held the title of Duchess of Richmond and Lennox. The daughter of Walter Stuart (or Stewart), a physician in the household of Queen Henrietta Maria when in exile after the death.
4 giorni fa · United Kingdom - Charles I, Civil War, Restoration: Father and son could hardly be more different than were James and Charles. Charles was shy and physically deformed. He had a speech defect that made his pronouncements painful for him and his audiences alike.
