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2011-06-12
June 12: Wat Tyler’s Rebellion (1381): Peasants Revolt

So the oppression of the peasants persisted. The churches and priests continued to ignore them in preference to their royal patrons.

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November 8: Edmund Halley

Edmund Halley (1656) It was on this date, November 8,* 1656, that British astronomer Sir Edmond Halley was born in Hagerston, Middlesex, England (now London), the son of a wealthy merchant. He was educated at Oxford and before graduating took his first astronomical field trip in 1676, to the British-controlled island of St. Helena, where […]



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