Time for your weekly history lesson!
What happened this week in history?
September 7, 1191: Queen Elizabeth I of England is born to King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.
September 8, 1504: In Florence, the infamous David sculpture
by Michelangelo is unveiled.
September 9, 1753: The first steam engine arrives in the US
Colonies (New Jersey) from England—but not to be used as a mode of
transportation, instead as a way to pump water from coal and metal mines. It
was called a “fire engine.” It would be nearly 50 years later that steam
engines were used for transportation.
September 10, 1547: The English beat the Scots at the Battle
of Pinkie.
September 11, 1297: The Battle at Stirling Bridge (featured
in my novel, The Highlander’s Reward). The Scots, led by William Wallace,
defeat the English. This is also the date, in 2001, that the United States will
remember forever, as terrorists hijacked planes that they crashed into the Twin
Towers in NYC, the Pentagon in DC, and a fourth that passengers and crew fought
back, crashing in a field in Pennsylvania. 2977 victims were killed in this
heinous attack.
September 12, 1814: The Battle of North Point—celebrated as
Defenders’ Day—is fought near Baltimore (War of 1812).
September 13, AD 122: The alleged
date that the Romans began building Hadrian’s Wall.
