* 1943 – World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.

After Anna died in 1281, in 1284 Andronikos II then married Yolanda ( renamed Irene ), a daughter of Marquis William VII of Montferrat, with whom he had:

Following the Glorious Revolution, the line of succession to the English throne was governed by the Bill of Rights 1689, which declared that the flight of James II from England to France during the revolution amounted to an abdication of the throne and that James ' son-in-law, ( and nephew ) William of Orange, and his wife, James ' daughter, Mary, were James ' successors, who ruled jointly as William III and Mary II.

The Bill of Rights also stated that the line of succession would go through their descendants, then through Mary's sister Princess Anne, and her descendants, and then to the issue of William III by a later marriage ( if he were to marry again after the death of Mary II ).

However, Mary II died childless in 1694, after which William III did not remarry, and Princess Anne's last surviving child, Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, died six years later, after which it was unlikely she would have any more children due to her age and the large number of miscarriages she had previously suffered.

* 1689 – William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain.

The reigns of King Przemysł II of Poland ( 1296 ), William the Silent of the Netherlands ( 1584 ), and the French kings Henry III ( 1589 ) and Henry IV ( 1610 ) were all ended by assassins.

William " Bill " Boyd Watterson II ( born July 5, 1958 ) is an American cartoonist and the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, which was syndicated from 1985 to 1995.

The Battle of Waterloo by William Sadler ( painter ) | William Sadler II

Following William and Mary's accession to the throne, England involved itself in the War of the Grand Alliance primarily to prevent a French invasion restoring Mary's father, James II.

William the Breton, chaplain to Philip II at Bouvines at the battle, that the lines of soldiers stood in line in a space of 40 000 steps ( 15 hectares ), which leaves very little clearance and predisposes melee.

William Aiton, a Scottish botanist, included an entry for the cranberry in volume II of his 1789 work, Hortus Kewensis.

* 1792 – King William II of the Netherlands ( d. 1849 )

During the conflict which resulted from the ousting of King James II by his Protestant rival, William III, Enniskillen and Derry were the focus of Williamite resistance in Ireland, including the nearby Battle of Newtownbutler.

His older brother was William Frank Thompson ( 1919 – 1944 ), a British officer in World War II, who was captured and shot aiding the Bulgarian anti-fascist partisans.

Meanwhile, a new threat arose from abroad: Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II, Frederick William II of Prussia, and the King's brother Charles-Philippe, comte d ' Artois, issued the Declaration of Pillnitz, which considered the cause of Louis XVI as their own, demanded his absolute liberty and implied an invasion of France on his behalf if the revolutionary authorities refused its conditions.

* 1693 – The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a charter by King William III and Queen Mary II.

* 1911 – William Darby, American World War II Army officer ( d. 1945 )

Arms of the great Bristol merchant and shipper William II Canynges ( d. 1474 ), as depicted on his canopied tomb in St Mary Redcliffe Church, showing the couped heads of three Moors wreathed at the temples

tomb of William II Canynges ( d. 1474 ), south aisle

The patrons included Simon de Burton, Mayor of Bristol, and William I Canynges ( d. 1396 ), merchant, 5 times Mayor of Bristol and 3 times MP.

In the 15th century Canynges ' grandson, the great merchant William II Canynges ( d. 1474 ), also 5 times Mayor and 3 times MP, assumed responsibility for bringing the work of the interior to completion and filling the windows with stained glass.

Arms of William Canynges, as depicted on his canopied tomb in St Mary Redcliffe: Argent, 3 Moors | Moor's heads couped in profile Tincture ( heraldry ) | proper wreathed around the temples of the first and azure ) The shape of the shield, being a late Tudor ( 16th. c or later ) escutcheon ( heraldry ) | escutcheon suggests this is a later addition or possibly repainting.

Thomas Canynges, Mayor of London 1456-7, eldest brother of William II.

William's grandfather William I Canynges ( d. 1396 ) was also a great Bristol merchant and was also 5 times Mayor of Bristol and 3 times MP for Bristol, in 1383, 1384 and 1386.

His 2nd son John Canynges, the father of William II, was also prominent in Bristol civic life, serving twice as mayor and as MP for Bristol in 1383.

Effigy of Joan Burton ( d. 1467 ), wife of William II Canynges.

William and Joan had two sons, who were encouraged by their father to become members of the Gloucestershire gentry, yet both predeceased him, and thus ended the Canynges dynasty in Bristol.

William II Canynges by J. Jehner.

* Williams, E. E., The Chantries of William Canynges in St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, with a Survey of Chantries in General and some Events in the Lives of the Canynges Family, 1950

* Sherborne, J., William Canynges 1402-1474, 1985

Antiquities of Bristow in the Middle Centuries Including the Topography by William Wyrcestre and the Life of William Canynges, Bristol, 1834, pp. 166-212

The young William Corbet had become a merchant dealing in the wool-trade as on his death he owed the very great sum of £ 320 for merchandise received to the Bristol merchant and clothier John Canynges ( d. 1405 ), father of the great Bristol merchant William II Canynges ( d. 1474 ).

Indeed John Canynges and his business partner William Cheddar the Elder had taken temporary possession of William Corbet's 2 / 3rds occupancy of Alveston manor as security for their debt, and later granted it by gift to William II Canynges ( d. 1474 ) who held it from them as a " free tenant ".

* William of Hirsau ( c 1030 – 91 )

* William of Malmesbury ( c 1095 – c1143 )

Painting based on The Beggar's Opera, Act III Scene 2, William Hogarth, c. 1728

William " Captain " Kidd ( c. 1645 – 23 May 1701 ) was a Scottish sailor remembered for his trial and execution for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean.

The Wedding of Stephen Beckingham and Mary Cox by William Hogarth, c. 1729 ( Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City | N. Y. ).

** Paterson by William Carlos Williams ( composed c. 1940-1961 )

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, the Queen's Secretary of State and Oxford's father-in-law, c. 1571.

Henry Ford's siblings include Margaret Ford ( 1867 – 1938 ); Jane Ford ( c. 1868 – 1945 ); William Ford ( 1871 – 1917 ) and Robert Ford ( 1873 – 1934 ).

Henry I ( c. 1068 / 1069 – 1 December 1135 ) was the fourth son of William I of England.

Jacob's Ladder by William Blake ( c. 1800, British Museum, London ).

* Sir William Hamilton, 1st Baronet ( c. 1605 – 1680 )

* Lady Margaret Hamilton ( d. c. 4 May 1642 ), married Sir William Cuninghame of Caprington

* William Mayo ( civil engineer ) ( c. 1685 – 1744 ), the civil engineer who laid out the city of Richmond, Virginia

Robeson had three brothers, William Drew, Jr. ( born 1881 ), Reeve ( born c. 1887 ), and Ben ( born c. 1893 ), and one sister, Marian ( born c. 1895 ).

According to William of Malmesbury ( c. 1080 – c.

The first allusion to a literary tradition of Robin Hood tales occurs in William Langland's Piers Plowman ( c. 1362 – c.

Stephen ( c. 1092 / 6 – 25 October 1154 ), often referred to as Stephen of Blois (, Medieval French: Estienne de Blois ), was a grandson of William the Conqueror.

# William ( c. 1137 – 1159 ), who succeeded as Count William I of Boulogne

Partly based on the works by the Italian surgeon and anatomist Matteo Realdo Colombo ( c. 1516 – 1559 ), the anatomist William Harvey ( 1578 – 1657 ) described the circulatory system.

In William Shakespeare's play King Lear ( c. 1600 ), when the King learns that his daughter Regan has publicly dishonoured him, he says They could not, would not do't ; ' tis worse than murder: a conventional attitude at that time.