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2 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.
2 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 Edward (Leopold Charles Edward George Albert; 19 July 1884 – 6 March 1954) was at various points in his life a British prince, a German duke and a Nazi politician. He was the last ruling duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha , a state of the German Empire , from 30 July 1900 to 14 November 1918.
3 giorni fa · Clarendon, who had lived with the king in exile, was his chief political adviser, and Charles’s brother James, duke of York (later James II), was his closest confidant and was entrusted with the vital post of lord admiral.
1 giorno 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.
5 giorni fa · Nevertheless, as Charles’ own end drew near and his courtiers stood in his bedchamber and watched, his brother, the duke of York (later King James II) leaned over the dying monarch and whispered, asking if he should send for a priest.
5 giorni fa · In 1663 he was present at the birth of James Stuart, Duke of Cambridge. He acted as Charles II's ambassador to France throughout the 1660s and was supportive of the policy of friendship towards Louis XIV of France .
