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2 giorni fa · Everett Collection/Shutterstock.com. Just before midnight on January 20, 1936, King George V died at Sandringham, in Norfolk, England. His health had gradually declined over the previous few months because of a chronic lung issue that had first appeared in 1928.
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2 giorni fa · George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC, FRS, FRGS, FBA (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925), styled Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911 and then Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a prominent British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who served as Viceroy ...
2 giorni fa · George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was an American Founding Father, military officer, and politician who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797.
3 giorni fa · Irish War of Independence. Field Marshal John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres, KP, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCMG, PC (28 September 1852 – 22 May 1925), known as Sir John French from 1901 to 1916, and as The Viscount French between 1916 and 1922, was a senior British Army officer. Born in Kent, he saw brief service as a midshipman in the ...
4 giorni fa · In 1937, Cristóbal Balenciaga established his Paris ateliers at 10–12 Avenue George V. It was at this historic address that the couturier of couturiers worked, fitted clients, showed collections, and kept an apartment until he retired in 1968. In 2020, the building was restored to reflect the original Balenciaga interiors, part of a long ...
4 giorni fa · Georgy Valentinovich Plekhanov. Russian revolutionary. Written by. Samuel H. Baron. Emeritus Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Author of Plekhanov: The Father of Russian Marxism and others. Samuel H. Baron. Fact-checked by. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica.
4 giorni fa · Role In: Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Day. Charles IX (born June 27, 1550, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, near Paris—died May 30, 1574, Vincennes, France) was the king of France from 1560, remembered for authorizing the massacre of Protestants on St. Bartholomew’s Day, August 23–24, 1572, on the advice of his mother, Catherine de Médicis.
