For the next 7 weeks I will be doing a series on the six wives of Henry VIII! For the last year I've been doing tons of research on these six women so I am very excited to share their stories with you all! I will be posting every Monday. May 3 - Why Katherine of Aragon Wasn’t Lying May 10 - Why Anne Boleyn Was Innocent May 17 - Why Jane Seymour & Henry VIII’s Marriage Wasn’t True Love May 24 - Why Henry VIII Was Lying About Anna of Cleves May 31 - Why Catherine Howard Wasn't "Just a Stupid Teenager" June 7 - Why Katherine Parr Was So Impressive June 14 - Historical & Modern Representations of the Six Wives Hi, all! I've decided that I will be taking a break from this blog for the month of April. See you all in May!
April 1st, 1204: Eleanor of Aquataine, queen of France, died.
April 2nd, 1931: Seventeen year old Jackie Mitchell pitched a game against the Yankees and struck out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. April 3rd, 1934: Jane Goodall, world’s best expert on chimpanzees, was born. April 4th, 1928: Maya Angelou, activist and author, was born. April 5th, 1887: Anne Sullivan taught the word “water” to Helen Keller, partly by pouring water on her hands. April 6th, 1931: ‘Little Orphan Annie’ aired on NBC Radio for the first time. April 7th, 1987: The National Museum of Women in the Arts opens, the first museum devoted to female artists. April 8th, 1783: Catherine the Great of Russia, the country’s longest reigning female leader, annexed the Crimea. April 9th, 1933: Ruth Bryan Owen becomes the first woman to represent the U.S. as a foreign minister. April 10th, 1930: Dolores Huerta, activist, labor organizer, and co-founder of the United Farm Workers union was born. April 11th, 1908: Jane Matilda Bolin, first African American female U.S. judge, and first black woman to earn a law degree from Yale was born. April 12th, 1533: Anne Boleyn is declared Queen of England. April 13th, 1909: Eudora Welty, writer, photographer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom was born. April 14th, 1866: Anne Sullivan, trailblazer in education and teacher of Helen Keller was born. April 15th, 2019: Aretha Franklin posthumously received the Pulitzer Prize Special Citation Honor, first individual woman to win it since 1930. April 16th, 1971: Selena, famous singer, was born. April 17th, 1983: Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her book The Color Purple. April 18th, 1916: Edith Wharton was appointed Chevalier of Legion of Honour for her contribution to the war effort. She was an author, and later became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Literature. April 19th, 1909: Joan of Arc received beatification by the Roman Catholic Church. April 20th, 1902: Marie and Pierre Curie isolated the radioactive compound radium chloride. April 21st, 2019: Greta Thunberg spoke at an Extinction Rebellion protest in London amid protests. April 22nd, 1976: Barbara Walters became the first female nightly network news anchor in the U.S. April 23rd, 1702: Queen Anne Stuart was crowned queen at Westminster Abbey.
April 25th, 1918: Ella Fitzgerald, singer considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century, was born. April 26th, 1933: Carol Burnett, popular actress, comedian, singer, and writer was born. April 27th, 1927: Coretta Scott King, civil rights, human rights, and peace activist, was born. April 28th, 1960: Elena Kagan, fourth female Supreme Court Justice in the U.S. was born. April 29th, 1429: Joan of Arc arrived at the siege of Orleans during the Hundred Years War between France and England. April 30th, 1997: 42 million people watch Ellen DeGeneres, TV personality, publicly come out as gay. Resources -
The month of March was very post heavy. Going forward I will be posting once a week on Mondays.
Two of the posts will be dedicated to research on Queen Anne Stuart, and the other two will just be whatever I feel like writing! See you all this coming Monday! |
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