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Historical Collections, Or a brief Account Of the most Remarkable Transactions OF The two last PARLIAMENTS ....
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[iv] + 302 pages in all.
Page [i] (the main title page) reads: "Historical Collections,
Or a brief ACCOUNT Of the most Remarkable TRANSACTIONS Of
The two last PARLIAMENTS Held and Dissolved AT Westminster and Oxford.
LONDON,
Printed for Simon Neale, at the three Pidgeons
in Bedford-Street in Covent Garden, 1681."
Page 1 is headed thus: "HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS O R, TRANSACTIONS OF
THE LATER PARLIAMENT, IN A DIALOGUE BETWEEN FAME and TRUTH."
Page 132 is headed thus: "THE SPEECH OF WILLIAM HOWARD Late Lord
Viscount Stafford,Upon the Scaffoldon Tower-Hill, immediately before
his Execution, Wednesday, Decemb. 29. 1680."
Page 189 is headed thus : "Historical Collections, A LIST OF BOTH
HOUSES OF Parliament, Which met at Westminster, upon the 21st. of
October, 1680. and was Dissolv'd on the 18th.of January following."
Page 229 (a subsidiary title page) reads: "Historical Collections, OR
THE CONTINUATION Of the PROCEEDINGS Of the PARLIAMENT, Begun and
Dissolved AT OXFORD, LONDON, Printed in the YEAR 1681."
Page 251 is headed thus: "Historical Collections, A NEW AND TRUE
CATALOGUE OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS, Together with the Knights, Citizens,
Burgesses, and Barons OF THE CINQUE-PORTS; That were Returned to seve
in the Parliament of ENGLAND Assembled at OXFORD the twenty-first of
March 1681."
Pages 299-302 are an alphabetical index headed "The Contents."
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THANK YOU FOR READING THROUGH TODAY'S REVISION OF THIS PAGE
HEREWITH TOO A BRIEF SELECTION OF TODAY'S HISTORICAL ANNIVERSARIES:-
21st. March
Events
630 - Byzantine emperor Heraclius restores the True Cross to
Jerusalem.
717 - Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid.
1188 - Accession to the throne of Japan by emperor Antoku.
1413 - Henry V becomes King of England.
1801 - The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and
French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis in Egypt.
1804 - Code Napolion is adopted as French civil law.
1821 - First revolutionary act in Monastery of Agia Lavra,
Kalavryta, Greek War of Independence.
1844 - The original date predicted by William Miller for the
return of Christ.
1871 - Otto von Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the
German Empire.
1871 - Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to
find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
1918 - World War I: Second Battle of the Somme begins.
1928 - Charles Lindbergh is presented the Medal of Honor for
his first trans-Atlantic flight.
1933 - Construction of Dachau, the first Nazi Germany
concentration camp, is completed.
1935 - Shah Reza Pahlavi formally asks the international
community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, which means 'Land
of the Aryans'.
1943 - Massacre of the town of Kalavryta, Greece by German
Nazi troops.
1945 - World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma.
1960 - Apartheid: Massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa:
Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African
demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
1965 - Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9 which is the
last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
1965 - Martin Luther King Jr leads 3,200 people on the start
of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to
Montgomery, Alabama.
1990 - Namibia becomes independent after 75
years of South African rule.
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