During Elizabeth I’s reign, one in four girls born in England were named after the queen!
\nKing James I of England was the first English monarch to have more than one name.
\nHis full name was Charles James Stuart. The ‘Charles’ was in honor of Prince Charles of France, who was Mary queen of Scots’s brother-in-law during her brief marriage to King Francis.
\nBefore this, all English monarchs were simply baptized ‘Henry’ or ‘Elizabeth’. In the twentieth century, we witnessed how much that tradition has changed – I think Prince Charles has two or three middle names.<\/p>\n
1473-1543 Copernicus discovers that we are orbiting the sun
\n1489 the symbols + and – come into use
\n1494 Whisky distilled in Scotland
\n1498 Chinese discover the toothbrush
\n1503 handkerchiefs begin to be used in England
\n1503 Leonardo paints La Gioconda (the Mona Lisa)
\n1508 Pope Julius II tells Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel
\n1517 Coffee arrives in Europe
\n1520 Chocolate arrives in Europe
\n1521 Martin Luther condemned as heretic and excommunicated
\n1522 Magellan sets out to sail around the world (and proves it’s round!)
\n1533 First lunatic asylums come into use
\n1547 Ivan the Terrible crowned Tsar of Russia
\n1562 Milled coins introduced
\n1565 First graphite pencils
\n1589 Sir John Harington installs the first proper water closet (bathroom)
\n1596 Galileo invents the thermometer
\n1600 Dutch opticians invent the telescope<\/p>\n
Sir Walter Raleigh’s wife kept his head in a red leather bag for 29 years Anne Boleyn<\/a>, Henry VIII’s second wife & Queen Elizabeth’s mother, was widely believed to have eleven fingers and three breasts<\/p>\n there was no coffin provided for Anne Boleyn at her execution. Her body was stuck in an old arrow chest with the head tucked beneath the arm. It is rumored that her heart was cut out & stolen – it was secretly hidden until 1836 (when it was ‘rediscovered’ and buried at a church in Suffolk.)<\/p>\n in Elizabethan times, many women wore a form of make-up which was lead-based – it had the unfortunate habit of eating iinto their skin!<\/p>\n
\n(he had been executed in 1618 by James I)
\nRaleigh introduced the potato to Ireland & tobacco to England
\nwhen Sir Thomas More<\/a> was executed by Henry VIII, his head was parboiled and stuck on a pole at London Bridge. More’s daughter paid the bridgekeeper to knock it down – she caught it, took it home & years later, was buried with it<\/p>\n