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4 days ago · The mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel HMS Bounty occurred in the South Pacific Ocean on 28 April 1789. Disaffected crewmen, led by acting-Lieutenant Fletcher Christian, seized control of the ship from their captain, Lieutenant William Bligh, and set him and eighteen loyalists adrift in the ship's open launch.
4 days ago · The first was the refusal of seven bishops to instruct the clergy of their dioceses to read the Declaration of Indulgence in their churches. The king was so infuriated by this unexpected check to his plans that he had the bishops imprisoned, charged with seditious libel, and tried.
6 days ago · ‘The Reckoning’ is another masterful courtroom drama but with a difference. Sandwiched between the shocking opening and the final understated denouement, is a vivid, sometimes harrowing, portrayal of the suffering of American POWs at the hands of the Japanese during World War Two, specifically, the Bataan March.
3 days ago · Other Britons believed, with George III, that rebellion against a monarch was sinful and that Parliament’s authority must be preserved. Conventional patriotism became stronger after 1778, when France, Spain , and belatedly the Dutch, allied themselves with the Americans against Britain.
2 days ago · The period of the Scandinavian invasions. in United Kingdom in History. Also known as: Britain, Great Britain, U.K., United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Written by. Mark A. Kishlansky. Frank Baird, Jr., Professor of History, Harvard University. Author of Parliamentary Selection and others. Mark A. Kishlansky, Linda J. Colley.
1 day ago · The Wars of the Roses, known at the time and in following centuries as the Civil Wars, were a series of civil wars fought over control of the English throne from 1455 to 1487. The wars were fought between supporters of the House of Lancaster and House of York, two rival cadet branches of the royal House of Plantagenet.
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2 days ago · The Enlightenment was preceded by and overlaps the Scientific Revolution and the work of Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, Francis Bacon, Pierre Gassendi, and Isaac Newton, among others, as well as the rationalist philosophy of Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Leibniz, and John Locke.
