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Today In History - enter events here!

I can´t say how reliefed I am.

A slow history day, this one, at least as far as it´s pirates - or sailing related:

In 1607 English settlers land at Cape Henry, Virginia. These would later move to James river and found Jamestown there.
 
<!--QuoteBegin-v_Grimmelshausen+Apr 26 2005, 01:29 AM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(v_Grimmelshausen @ Apr 26 2005, 01:29 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I can´t say how reliefed I am.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->Heh... It's keelhauling or flogging for punishments anyhow; I think it's been established that "walking the plank" is just a novelist's invention and wasn't anything the REAL pirates did... <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="icon_wink.gif" /> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
I know. Or at least, it´s not in the books, but then again, not every ship had its onboard historan, so we´ll never know.

However, this day´s slow as well, it´s just Ferdinand Mangellan who got himself killed in the Battle of Mactan by natives in Phillipines in 1521.
 
Today, in 1672, French troops invaded the Netherlands. This invasion was part of the Third Dutch- Anglo War, in which England had allied with France against the Dutch.
 
For I were not able to post yesterday, today the events for both days:

April 30th:
1492:Columbus recieves the Spanish commision for his exploration.
Today:
1699: Pierre le Moyne d´Iberville founds the first European settlement on Mississippi River.
!707: By the Union Act England and Scotland join together to Great Britain.
 
Today in 1494, Jamaica discovered Columbus! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rolleyes:" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" /> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="icon_wink.gif" />

I guess it's all in who wrote the history books, hm?

Grimm, I thank you for the news of all these interesting happenings throughout history! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/me.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":onya" border="0" alt="me.gif" />
 
I´ll try and keep it up, but I can´t promise anything. The day after tomorrow it´s back to Germany, leaving behind 24/7 wlan connection all over the house and my favourite working couch here <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ib012.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cry" border="0" alt="ib012.gif" /> and it´s back down to a few hours at university computers. I´ve got to find me a job real quick, so I can afford a good connection at home <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mellow.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":|" border="0" alt="mellow.gif" />
 
thanks grim, ill try to get these added to the database this week some time <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/me.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":onya" border="0" alt="me.gif" />
 
<!--QuoteBegin-CatalinaThePirate+May 3 2005, 06:34 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(CatalinaThePirate @ May 3 2005, 06:34 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Where do you find these?  Maybe I should help Keith compile a big list for our Calendar.
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Where did I find what? The anniversaries? Wikipedia.org, I thought I mentioned that already.

Well, today, in 1493, Pope Alexander VI divided the world between Spain and Portugal along the Demarcation Line in the Treaty of Tordesillas, and one year later Cristofer Columbus landed in Jamaica.

In 1626, the Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrived in the New Netherlands, today Manhattan.
 
So, the last update done in Brussels, in two hours time I´ll sit in the train (for almost eight hours...)

In 1640 King Charles I disbands the Parliament and thus starts the Civil War
In 1646 the same King Charles I surrenders to the Scottish Presbyterian Army at Newark.

In 1821 Napoleon Bonaparte dies.
 
On August 23, 1305 William Wallace was executed in London.

In May of 1718 Blackbeard blockaded Charleston, South Carolina, and plundered around 9 ships.

This is a good site with biographies of famous pirates: <a href="http://www.geocities.com/captcutlass/Bio.html" target="_blank">http://www.geocities.com/captcutlass/Bio.html</a>
 
<img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/w00t.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":woot" border="0" alt="w00t.gif" /> That is a good link, Mr. Cotton, thanks!

They've added to it since I was there last time. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />
 
ahh ok, that took a while but i got most of them, the non navel & pirate stuff ill leave for the forum <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

Mr. Cotton, thanks for that, you dont happen to have the actual day do you perchance <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

Up to 69 events/dates so far
 
Back in technological stoneage Germany, and nothing really interesting to us happend during the last days in history, at least according to wikipedia, my main source.
 
Today, in 1502, Columbus left Spain for his fourth and last journey

In 1671, Thomas Blood attempted to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower. He was caught because he was too drunk to carry away his loot.
 
<!--QuoteBegin-v_Grimmelshausen+May 9 2005, 05:53 AM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(v_Grimmelshausen @ May 9 2005, 05:53 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->In 1671, Thomas Blood attempted to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower. He was caught because he was too drunk to carry away his loot.
<div align="right">[snapback]104596[/snapback]</div><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> Oh, that's RIPE! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/buds.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":drunk" border="0" alt="buds.gif" />
 
<img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> Soo funny!! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/buds.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":drunk" border="0" alt="buds.gif" />
 
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