The school's founder, James Pierpont Greaves, had only recently died but Alcott was invited to stay there for a week.

In addition to James II himself ( who died a few months after the act received the royal assent ) and his Catholic children Prince James and Princess Louisa, the act also excluded the descendents of James ' sister Henrietta, the youngest daughter of Charles I. Henrietta's daughter Anne was then the Queen of Sardinia and a Catholic ; the Jacobite heirs of today are descended from her line.

In the United States, within 100 years, four presidents, Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy, died at the hands of assassins.

The great figures of reformist Whiggery were Charles James Fox ( died 1806 ) and his disciple and successor Earl Grey.

The lyrics were written in honor of Green Beret James Gabriel, Jr., the first Native Hawaiian who died in Vietnam, who was executed by the Viet Cong while on a training mission on April 8, 1962.

Most important, each year from 1907 until James's death in 1910, James wrote to his friends in the Boston intelligentsia to request financial aid for Peirce ; the fund continued even after James died.

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.

James E. Norris died in December 1952.

The duke then set out for the Shrine of Saint James of Compostela, in the company of other pilgrims ; however, he died on Good Friday 9 April 1137.

The only notable person known to have both been born and died on February 29 was Sir James Wilson ( 1812 – 1880 ), Premier of Tasmania.

The Village ( and surrounding New York City ) would later play central roles in the writings of, among others, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Marianne Moore, Maya Angelou, Rod McKuen, and Dylan Thomas, who collapsed at the Chelsea Hotel and died at St. Vincents Hospital at 170 West 12th Street, in the Village after drinking at the White Horse Tavern on November 5, 1953.

James died a short time later.

When Charles died in 1685 and his brother, a Roman Catholic, succeeded him as James VII of Scotland ( and II of England ), matters came to a head.

When James Smithson died and left his estate to the U. S. government to build an institution of learning, congress wanted to appropriate the money for other purposes.

In 1829 British scientist James Smithson died, and left his fortune for the " increase and diffusion of knowledge ".

Soon after their arrival, John's younger brother James died from a blow to the head by a servant who was supposed to look after the boys.

Three of James Jr's brothers died as infants, including one who was stillborn.

James Hutton was born in Edinburgh on 3 June 1726 OS as one of five children of William Hutton, a merchant who was Edinburgh City Treasurer, but who died in 1729 when James was still young.

In 1832 James Renwick Willson, a Reformed Presbyterian minister in Albany, New York, criticized Monroe for having " lived and died like a second-rate Athenian philosopher.

In the Antiquities of the Jews ( Book 20, Chapter 9, 1 ) Josephus refers to the stoning of " James the brother of Jesus " by order of Ananus ben Ananus, a Herodian-era High Priest who died c. 68 AD.

* 1473 – King James IV of Scotland ( d. 1513 )

* 1513 – James IV of Scotland is defeated and dies in the Battle of Flodden Field, ending Scotland's involvement in the War of the League of Cambrai.

James IV of Scotland ( r. 1488 – 1513 ) reportedly had a great liking for Scotch whisky, and in 1506 the town of Dundee purchased a large amount of whisky from the Guild of Surgeon Barbers, which held the monopoly on production at the time.

* March 17 – King James IV of Scotland ( d. 1513 )

The tales were designed to entertain the court of James IV ( r. 1488 – 1513 ) and are undoubtedly a blend of fact and fiction.

James IV ( 17 March 1473 – 9 September 1513 ) was King of Scots from 11 June 1488 to his death.

Pope Leo X sent a letter to James threatening him with ecclesiatical censure for breaking peace treaties on 28 June 1513, and subsequently James was excommunicated by Cardinal Christopher Bainbridge.

James had been excommunicated, and although Henry VIII had obtained a breve from the Pope on 29 November 1513 to have the King buried in consecrated ground at St. Pauls, the embalmed body lay unburied for many years at Sheen Priory in Surrey.

Covers the last few months of James IV's reign and ends with the Battle of Flodden ( 1513 ).

It features James IV and " ends with a full account of the Battle of Flodden " ( 1513 ).

* Letters of James IV, 1505 – 1513, ed.

In 1513, James invaded England to honour his commitment to the Auld Alliance, only to meet death and disaster at the Battle of Flodden.

Around the end of the fifteenth century, King James IV ( ruled 1488 – 1513 ) built Holyroodhouse, by the abbey, for his principal Edinburgh residence, and the castle's role as a royal home subsequently declined.

James IV was killed in battle at Flodden Field, on 9 September 1513.

Three years later, King James V ( ruled 1513 – 1542 ), still only five years old, was brought to the castle for safety.

The 8th Lord was killed by the Johnstones during a fight at Dryfe Sands, and in 1513 the 9th Lord Maxwell was executed for the revenge murder of Sir James Johnstone.

* James IV ( 17 March 1473 – 9 September 1513 )

James IV ( reigned 1488 – 1513 ) kept a full Renaissance court, including alchemists, and sought to establish a palace of European standing at Stirling.

His successor, James V ( reigned 1513 – 1542 ), was crowned in the chapel royal, and grew up in the castle under the guardianship of Lord Erskine.

Shortly thereafter James IV launched an invasion, and Surrey, with the aid of other noblemen and his sons Thomas and Edmund, crushed James's much larger force near Flodden on 9 September 1513.

The landmark work in the reign of James IV was Gavin Douglas's version of Virgil's Aeneid, the Eneados, which was the first complete translation of a major classical text in an Anglian language, finished in 1513, but overshadowed by the disaster at Flodden.

The battle was fought in the county of Northumberland in northern England on 9 September 1513, between an invading Scots army under King James IV and an English army commanded by the Earl of Surrey.