Prof. Frank McDonoughさんのイラストまとめ

26 July 1858. Lionel de Rothschild became the first Jewish person (practicing Jewish religion) to sit as an MP in House of Commons.

26 July 1745. The first recorded women’s cricket match took place on Gosden Common, near Guildford in Surrey. The event was reported in the Reading Mercury. The paper described it as “the greatest cricket match that was played in this part of England.”

22 July 1298. Edward I’s archers, using longbows for the first time, defeated William Wallace and his Scottish forces at the Battle of Falkirk. Shortly after the battle, Wallace resigned as Guardian of Scotland.

21 July 1403. At the Battle of Shrewsbury, the Lancastrian King Henry IV (depicted, right) defeated a rebel army led by Henry “Harry Hotspur” Percy from Northumberland, who was killed. The battle reaffirmed the effectiveness of the longbow in battle.

17 July 1717. George I sailed down the River Thames, with the acclaimed musical composer, Frideric Handel (top left), and 50 musicians who publicly performed the composer’s Water Music for the first time.

17 July 1453. French forces under Jean Bureau defeated the English and Gascony led by the Earl of Shrewsbury at the Battle of Castillon. It’s considered the last major battle of the Hundred Years’ War. As a result, the English lost all landholdings in France, except Calais.

7 July 1884. Lion Feuchtwanger was born in Munich, Germany. His 1933 anti-Nazi novel The Oppermans was a huge success, but his 1925 book, Jud Süss, about an 18th century Jew, was used by Hitler’s regime, without his permission, for a 1940 antisemitic film distorting the original.

2 July 1865. William Booth founded the Salvation Army. It sought to bring salvation to the “poor, destitute, and the hungry” by meeting both their “physical and spiritual needs”. It also attempted to turn working class people away from drinking alcohol, without much success.

1 July 1912. US pilot, Harriet Quimby, was killed in a plane crash (aged 37), at the 3rd Annual Boston Aviation Meeting at Squantum, Massachusetts, USA. On 16 April 1912, she had become the first woman to pilot a plane across the English Channel.

28 June 1942. German armed forces launched a major offensive to seize the Soviet oil fields in the Caucasus, and try to capture the city of Stalingrad. The German defeat in February 1943 was a turning point in the war on the Eastern Front and the beginning of Hitler’s downfall.