Incurring a reprimand is extremely rare.

His unhappiness was said to have caught Anne's attention one day in her chamber at Winchester, when she sent for him to play the virginals.

Saint Anne's Park is a public park and recreational facility, shared between Raheny and Clontarf, both suburbs on the North Side of Dublin.

In March 1582 there was a skirmish in the streets of London between Oxford and Anne's uncle, Sir Thomas Knyvet.

Oxford's illicit congress with Anne Vavasour resulted in an intermittent series of street battles between the Knyvet clan, led by Anne's uncle, Sir Thomas Knyvet, and Oxford ’ s men.

The essential difference between the Tudors and their predecessors, is the nationalization and integration of John Wycliffe's ideas to the Church of England, holding onto the alignment of Richard II of England and Anne of Bohemia, in which Anne's Hussite brethren were in alliance to her husband's Wycliffite countrymen against the Avignon Papacy.

Anne's second cousin George of Hanover ( her eventual successor ) visited London for three months from December 1680, sparking rumours of a potential marriage between them.

* Treaty of Utrecht, a group of treaties in 1713, most notably one between France and Great Britain, that ended the War of the Spanish Succession (" Queen Anne's War ")

There are numerous parallels between the two stories – including the fact that one of Henry's closest friends, Sir Henry Norreys, was beheaded as one of Anne's supposed lovers and he refused to confess in order to save his life claiming that everyone knew the Queen was innocent.

When Queen Anne's War ended, the town was selected by Governor Joseph Dudley to host negotiations for the 1713 Treaty of Portsmouth, which temporarily ended hostilities between the Abenaki Indians and English settlements of the Province of Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire.

A new boathouse was constructed ( jointly with St Anne's and Wadham Colleges ) between 1989 and 1990.

The border between Talbot County and Queen Anne's County runs through the middle of town.

Beginning in 1689, the colonies became involved in a series of wars between Great Britain and France for control of North America, the most important of which were Queen Anne's War, in which the British conquered French colony Acadia, and the final French and Indian War ( 1754 – 1763 ) when Britain was victorious over all the French colonies in North America.

After Queen Anne's accession, St John supported the bills in 1702 and 1704 against occasional conformity, and took a leading part in the disputes which arose between the two Houses.

Britain captured Acadia from France in Queen Anne's War, but the Treaty of Utrecht left Cape Breton Island in French hands, and did not clearly demarcate a boundary between New France and the British colonies of the Atlantic coast.

Frequent disputes between the residents and the mostly-absentee proprietors over land ownership and quitrents plagued the province until its surrender to Queen Anne's government in 1702.

In July 1534, George once again attended the French court, this time to rearrange the meeting that had been arranged between the kings due to Anne's pregnancy ( she later miscarried ).

Britain at the time was very divided between Whigs who favoured the succession of George of Hanover after Queen Anne's death and Tories who supported the return of the Jacobite James Stuart, known later as the ' old pretender '.

Most of Bewdley's shops and amenities are situated along Load Street, at the top of which lies St Anne's Church, built between 1745 and 1748 by Thomas Woodward of Chipping Campden.

In the independent sector, Queen Anne's School educates girls between the ages of 11 and 18 while Hemdean House School has mixed infants and junior schools, and a girls senior school.

* 1702-Beginning of Queen Anne's War between France and Great Britain.

* 1713-After eleven years of fighting, the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht ends Queen Anne's War between France and Great Britain.

The marriage was meant to cement relations between England and Anne's brother Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy.

In 1714, following a long disagreement between the ministers, Anne dismissed Harley ; the arch-Tory Bolingbroke became in effect Anne's chief minister, and Tory power seemed to be at its zenith.

A marriage between Peter and the King's elder daughter, Anne, was arranged ( as was another marriage between Louis of Orleans and Anne's younger sister, Jeanne ); as a mark of his favour, the King forced Peter's older brother John II, Duke of Bourbon to grant the Bourbon fief of Beaujeu ( Beaujolais ) to Peter, who was also given a seat on the royal council.

Late in Anne's reign, for example, the Tory ministers Harley and St John shared power.

" Macaulay adopted his unfavourable reading of Marlborough straight from Swift and the Tory pamphleteers of the latter part of Anne's reign.

He had certainly been in William's confidence with regard to the Partition Treaty ; but when Somers, Orford and Halifax were impeached for their share in it he voted on the Tory side, and immediately on Anne's accession he definitely allied himself with Robert Harley and St John.

This Tory government negotiated the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, which pulled Great Britain out of the War of the Spanish Succession ( to the dismay of Britain's allies, including Anne's eventual successor, George, Elector of Hanover ); the peace was enacted despite a Whig majority in the House of Lords, which Anne defeated by creating new Tory peers.

The cantata celebrates Queen Anne's birthday, and the accomplishment of the Treaty of Utrecht ( negotiated by the Tory ministry of Anne in 1712 ) to end the War of the Spanish Succession.

Marlborough had long had doubts about the Whig policy of ' No Peace without Spain ', but he was reluctant to abandon his allies ( including the Elector of Hanover, Anne's heir presumptive ), and sided with the Whigs in opposing the peace preliminaries.

In 1706, Gildon, a staunch Whig by this point ( in contrast to his family's Toryism and Jacobitism ), published letters to the Electress Sophia to come visit England, with an eye toward being on hand to take the throne upon Queen Anne's death.

It was headed by Lord Godolphin and Anne's favourite the Duke of Marlborough, who were considered moderate Tories, along with the Speaker of the House of Commons, Robert Harley.

On her death in 1733, Anne Churchill | Anne's son Charles became the Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough | 3rd Duke of Marlborough.

On the recommendation of Lord Sunderland ( whose wife was a close friend of Lady Marlborough ), William eventually offered Marlborough the post of governor to the Duke of Gloucester, Anne's eldest son ; he was also restored to the Privy Council, together with his military rank.

Throughout his travels Marlborough remained in close contact with the Electoral court of Hanover, determined to ensure a bloodless Hanoverian succession on Anne's death.

It was said at the time that together with his wife, Queen Anne's closest friend and confidante, the Duke of Marlborough was virtually ruling the country.

On her death in 1733, Anne Churchill | Anne's son Charles became the Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough | 3rd Duke of Marlborough.

* Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough ( 1660 – 1744 ), wife of John Churchill, Queen Anne's agent

Upon Queen Anne's accession to the English throne in 1702, she appointed Lord Godolphin as First Lord of the Treasury and the Duke of Marlborough as Master-General of the Ordnance ( among other numerous appointments ).

The Duke of Marlborough, a friend of Anne's, was appointed Gloucester's governor, after the Duke of Shrewsbury declined the office on the grounds of ill health.

Marlborough presented Anne's choices to William shortly before the latter sailed for the Netherlands, but William refused to accept them.

" Anne's reign saw two wars and great triumphs by John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough.