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In March 1296, Edward I launched an invasion of Scotland, sparking the First War of Scottish Independence.
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March and 1296
John renounced his homage in March 1296 and by the end of the month Edward stormed Berwick-upon-Tweed, sacking the then-Scottish border town.
* March 2 – Marjorie Bruce, daughter of Robert I of Scotland ( b. 1296 )
In December, more than 200 of Edward's tenants in Newcastle were summoned to form a militia by March 1296 and in February, a fleet sailed north to meet with his land forces in Newcastle.
The war began in earnest with Edward I's sack of Berwick in March 1296, followed by the Scottish defeat at the Battle of Dunbar and the abdication of John Balliol in July.
The Scots forayed into England in March 1296 — this incursion together with the French treaty angered the English king and provoked an invasion of Scotland taking Berwick on 30 March before defeating the Scots army at Dunbar on 27 April.
This poetic transaction is usually dated to January – March, Spring, or August 1296, but Gerónimo Zurita in the seventeenth century specifically dated the embassy of Mountainer to 1298.
* Second Interregnum in Scotland, from 10 July 1296, when John Balliol was deposed, until 25 March 1306, when Robert the Bruce was crowned.
He married Maud Chaworth, before 2 March 1296 / 1297.
On 25 March 1296, a number of the king's Scots supporters, including Robert Bruce of Annandale, and his son, Robert, the twenty-one-year-old earl of Carrick and the future king, swore fealty and solemnly pledged on “ the Holy Gospels ” that they would “ be faithful and loyal ... to King Edward, King of England ”.
Hugh IV of Cyprus ( or Hugh IV of Lusignan ) ( c. 1295 or 1293 – 1296 – 10 October 1359 ) was King of Cyprus from 31 March 1324 to his abdication, on 24 November 1358 and, nominally, King of Jerusalem, as Hugh II, until his death.
Marjorie Bruce or Marjorie de Brus ( 1296 – 2 March 1316 ) was the eldest daughter of Robert the Bruce, King of Scots by his first wife, Isabella of Mar, and the founder of the Stewart dynasty.
The Earl of Dunbar and March, with the Earl of Angus, Robert Bruce the elder, and his son the Earl of Carrick, swore fealty to the English King at Wark on 25 March 1296.
He served in Gascony in 1295 and 1296, and was present at the action around Bordeaux on 28 March 1296, when his standard bearer was captured by the French.
March and Edward
Alfred Edward Housman (; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936 ), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad.
It was only in October 1328, after a short-lived peace treaty between Scotland and England, the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton ( which renounced all English claims to Scotland and was signed by the new English king, Edward III, on 1 March 1328 ), that the interdict on Scotland and the excommunication of its king were finally removed.
The couple divorced in March 1990, and Lambert was awarded custody of their only child Tyler Edward ( July 2, 1984 – May 6, 2010 ), with Plato having visitation rights.
Dolores Agnes Fuller ( born Dolores Eble ; March 10, 1923 – May 9, 2011 ) was an American actress and songwriter best known as the one-time girlfriend of the low-budget film director Edward D. Wood, Jr. She played the protagonist's girlfriend in Glen or Glenda, co-starred in Wood's Jail Bait, and had a minor role in Bride of the Monster.
Edward Bellamy ( March 26, 1850 – May 22, 1898 ) was an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, a Rip Van Winkle-like tale set in the distant future of the year 2000.
He was posted to the battlecruiser HMS Renown in March 1920 and accompanied Edward, Prince of Wales, on a royal tour of Australia in her.
Promoted to lieutenant on 15 April 1920, he transferred to the battlecruiser HMS Repulse in March 1921 and accompanied Edward on a Royal tour of India and Japan.
His uncle, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset tampered with Henry VIII's will and obtained letters patent giving him much of the power of a monarch by March 1547.
* 1949 – Celebrities Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
Oswald was born in New Orleans on October 18, 1939, to Marguerite Frances ( née Claverie ; New Orleans, Louisiana, July 19, 1907 – Fort Worth, Texas, January 17, 1981 ) and Robert Edward Lee Oswald, Sr. ( New Orleans, Louisiana, March 4, 1896 – New Orleans, August 19, 1939 ).
Michael Edward Reagan ( born March 18, 1945 ) is the adopted son of former President Ronald Reagan and his first wife, Jane Wyman.
14 March 1321 / 1322 ), died following the Battle of Burton Bridge, then was posthumously executed for treason by Edward II
* The exhibition Edward Fitzgerald & The Rubaiyat from the collection of Nicholas B. Scheetz at the Grolier Club, January 22 – March 13, 2009.
However, though recently pledged to support King Edward, it is interesting to note that Robert the Bruce sent a letter to the monks at Melrose Abbey in March 1302 which effectively weakened his usefulness to the English king.
This penny dreadful was published in 18 weekly parts, in Edward Lloyd's The People's Periodical and Family Library, issues 7-24, 21 November 1846 to 20 March 1847.
Thomas Cranmer ( 2 July 1489 – 21 March 1556 ) was a leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and, for a short time, Mary I.
** Red Scare: Celebrities including Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
* Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March ( 1287 – 1330 ) an English nobleman, was for three years de facto ruler of England, after leading a successful rebellion against Edward II.
* March 10 – Albert Edward, Prince of Wales ( later Edward VII ) marries Princess Alexandra of Denmark ( later Queen Alexandra ).
* March 26 – Alfred Edward Housman, English poet ( d. 1936 )
* March 2 – Sir Edward Hobart Seymour, British admiral ( b. 1840 )
* March 25 – Edward Steichen, American photographer ( b. 1879 )
* March 3 – Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle, illegitimate son of King Edward IV of England
March and I
and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;
I was surprised and sorry to find in your issue of March 4 a long and detailed attack upon a book that had not yet been published.
When I looked up the actual date of his birth and found it to be March 15th, I realized that Roy was born under the right zodiacal sign for a watercolorist: the water sign of Pisces ( February 18 thru March 20 ).
I visited the bank in March and wrote a story about the situation.
* Why I am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell ( March 6, 1927 ).
But on Cemetery Hill, the I Corps could muster only a third of its men as effective for duty and the corps was essentially destroyed as a combat force for the rest of the battle ; it would be decommissioned in March 1864, its surviving units combined into other corps.
# Otto I, Margrave of Brandenburg ( 1126 / 1128 – 7 March 1184 )
He married secondly to Anna Maria ( 1532 – 20 March 1568 ), daughter of Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, in 1550.
* 1963 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech
Abdülhamid I, Abdul Hamid I or Abd Al-Hamid I ( Ottoman Turkish: عبد الحميد اول ` Abdü ’ l-Ḥamīd-i evvel ), which translates to the Servant of God ( March 20, 1725 – April 7, 1789 ), was the 27th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
Bayezid I ( Ottoman: بايزيد اول, Turkish: Beyazıt, nicknamed Yıldırım ( Ottoman: ییلدیرم ), " the Thunderbolt "; 1354 – March 8, 1403 ) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1389 to 1402.
" I don't see it as a bad thing for a park ," the assigned National Park Service biologist told a reporter for Smithsonian Magazine ( March 2006 ).
Charles I ( 19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649 ) was King of England, King of Scotland, and King of Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.
When Elizabeth I of England died in March 1603 and James VI of Scotland became King of England as James I, Charles was not considered strong enough to make the journey to London due to his fragile health.
In March 1684 Leopold I formed the Holy League with Poland and Venice to counter the Ottoman threat.
Elizabeth I ( known simply as " Elizabeth " until the accession of Elizabeth II ; 7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603 ) was queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death.
In March he was unable to go to court due to illness, in August he wrote to Burghley from Byfleet, where he gone for his health: ' I find comfort in this air, but no fortune in the court.
LaGuardia took office on March 4, 1917 but soon was commissioned in the United States Army Air Service ; he rose to the rank of major in command of a unit of Ca. 44 bombers on the Italian-Austrian front in World War I. LaGuardia resigned his seat in Congress on December 31, 1919.
Francesco I Sforza ( July 23, 1401 – March 8, 1466 ) was an Italian condottiero, the founder of the Sforza dynasty in Milan, Italy.
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