Prof. Frank McDonoughさんのイラストまとめ

9 April 1860. On his phonautograph machine, French born Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville made the oldest known recording of a human voice. Unlike Thomas Edison's later phonograph, the phonautograph created only visual images of the sound and could not play back its recordings.

9 April 1747. The Scottish Jacobite Lord Lovat (Simon Fraser) was beheaded on Tower Hill, London. He was the last man to be executed in this way in Britain. He had been convicted of high treason in the aftermath of the Battle of Culloden in 1746.

2 April 747 or 748. Charlemagne was born in the Kingdom of the Franks. He was the first Holy Roman Emperor. He was also known as the “King of the Franks”. He united the majority of western and central Europe and laid the foundations of modern France

Lady Day (25 March) was New Year’s Day until 1752 in England. It celebrated the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary.

21 March 1413. Henry V became King of England. He’s best known for his victory at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415 and immortalised in Shakespeare’s famous play. He was succeeded by Henry VI, aged just 9 months, who ruled from 1422 to 1461.

10 March 1906. A total of 1,099 people were killed in the “Courrières Mine Disaster” in Northern France. It’s the worst death toll in a mine disaster in Europe and the second worst in the world behind a 1942 Chinese mining disaster.

PHOTO OF THE DAY. A vision of the future from a German Magazine (1930).

2 March 1919. The first Communist International [Comintern] conference began in Moscow. There were 52 delegates present from 34 affiliated parties during the five-day event. They decided to form an Executive Committee with the aim of spreading communist ideas around the world.

28 February 1900. The 118 day siege of the British garrison at Ladysmith in Natal, South Africa, during the Anglo-Boer War, ended, with a British victory. The British victory led to scenes of jubilation never before seen on the streets of Britain.

PHOTO OF THE DAY. A vision of the future from a German Magazine (1930).