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1509-1547 HENRY VIII |
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1540 SieGFRieD MAXIMILLIAN SILDENSTEIN IS BORN, DESTINED TO BECOME 1ST EARL OF SILDenstein |
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1546 TYCHO BRAHE IS BORN, DESTINED TO BECOME FAMOUS DANISH ASTRONOMER |
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1547-1553 EDWARD VI |
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GERMAN PAINTER LUCAS CRANACH DIES |
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1553-1558 MARY I |
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1558 IVAN THE TERRIBLE INVADES LIVONIA TO TAKE THE BALKANS |
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1558-1603 ELIZABETH I |
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1561 SieGFRIED MARRIES MARGARET MACFARLANE. A YEAR LATER SIEGFREID WILHEIM IS BORN |
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1560 ECLIPSE OF THE SUN |
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1571 SieGFRIED MAXIMILLIAN PURCHASES TITLE THE EARL OF SILDENSTEIN |
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1571 THE ROYAL STOCK EXCHANGE, FOUNDED BY SIR THOMAS GRESHAM, IS INAUGURATED BY THE QUEEN |
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1575 at the tender age of 13, SieGFRIED wilheim becomes queen's favourite. 1578 BECOMES 2ND EARL OF SILDENSTEIN |
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1588 SAILS WITH LORD HOWARD. SECRETLY MARRIES ELEANOR SHORTLY AFTERWARDS. |
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1588 ENGLAND DESTROYS THE SPANISH ARMADA |
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1603-1625 JAMES 1 OF ENGLAND (JAMES VI OF SCOTLAND 1567-1625) |
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1603 a year after the death of the queen, eleanor commits suicide |
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1605 MIGUEL DE CERVANTES' NOVEL DON QUIXOTE DELIGHTS HIS SPANISH AUDIENCE |
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1614 EDWARD SEIGFRIED BECOMES 3RD EARL OF SILDENSTEIN. 1619 MARRIES MARIA WHO DIES IN CHILDBIRTH |
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1616 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE breaks wind and DIES |
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1620 3rd earl abandons son and sails on the mayflower |
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1622 the frumpy writer marie le jars de gournay writes about sexual equality |
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1625-1649 CHARLES I |
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1643 the earl returns to england with a new family and a new breed of bird, the wild turkey |
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1647 italian fishmonger tommaso aniello brings naples to its knees |
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1648 the 3rd earl dies at the ill-fated battle of preston. william becomes 4th earl |
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1648 mad, crazy sultan ibrahim assassinated |
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1649-1660 OLIVER CROMWELL |
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1665 plague devastates the family; lord george survives. 1669 the earl chokes to death on a pig's trotter |
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1654 an explosion in a gunpowder factory destroys a quarter of the city of delft |
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1660-1685 charles ii |
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1662 disfigured by the pox, lord george becomes 5th earl at the age of seven |
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1662 transvestite highway'man' moll cutpurse dies leaving her sensational memoir of cross-dressing |
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1685-1688 james II
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1685 5th earl marries hortense |
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1685 bishop egbert of hereford arrested for possession of clerical pudenda display tray |
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1688-1702 william and mary |
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1694 james siegfried born. death of his older brothers leave him next in line |
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1687 Chris Cock invents the microscope, swiftly dropping the original name of cockoscope |
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1702-1714 Anne |
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1706 5th earl loses nose at ramillies; silver replacement made. earl dies at malplaquet 1709 |
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1705 astronomer halley claims comets will return |
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1714-1727 George i |
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1717 the dull 6th earl begins to establish the indigo library at sild hall |
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1719 Frederick William I of prussia dismisses MdM von trap following an eruption on his johnson |
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1727-1760 george ii
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1748 6th earl dies of a stroke at 54
1758 7th earl dies at battle of carillon |
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1755 louis xv's beautiful mistress mme de pomadour shops til she drops |
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1760-1820 George III |
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1770 margaret, sister to 8th earl, is associated with henry duke of cumberland |
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1779 captain cook dies after offending hawaiians with pudenda display tray |
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1820-1830 George IV |
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1823 9th earl, known as the 'wicked earl' is crippled by gout |
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1821 napoleon dies of boredom |
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1830-1837 William IV |
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1835 9th earl acquires brass bound buggery box for collection |
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1836 John McAdam, road safety pioneer, dies on the road |
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1837-1901 victoria
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1837 sebastian, gentleman scientist, taxidermist and victorian prig, becomes 10th earl |
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1861 albert dies of typhoid fever. earl's request to stuff him for prosperity denied |
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1862 the earl's famous stuffed winged cat goes on display in sildchester town hall |
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1861-1865 american civil war |
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1869 Albert becomes 11th earl, his life plagued by scandal surrounding his son |
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1894 younger son willliam killed in bulawayo by a matabele warrior |
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1901-1910 Edward VII |
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1909 young charles becomes 12th earl |
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1908 Old age pensions established |
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1910-1939 George V |
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family drops german name of sildenstein and becomes earls of sild |
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1914 first world war |
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jan-dec 1936 Edward VIII |
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1936-1952 George VI |
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1940 earl dies when the backsliders club is bombed in the blitz |
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1945 victory in europe day |
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1952-present elizabeth ii |
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1940-present george montague 13th earl of sild |
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