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#OTD in 1914, Britain declared war on Germany.

Asquith said in the @HouseofCommons:

“His Majesty’s Government are bound to protest against this violation of a Treaty (of London)…and request an assurance that her (Belgium’s) neutrality will be respected by Germany.”

It wasn’t.

#OTD in 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia.

The declaration read:

"The Serbian Government not having answered in a satisfactory manner the note...the Government have recourse to arms. Austria-Hungary considers herself at war with Serbia"

The First World War had begun

#OTD in 1215, King John sealed Magna Carta Libertatum.

King John agreed that:

“No free man shall be seized, imprisoned, dispossessed, outlawed, exiled or ruined in any way, nor in any way proceeded against, except by the lawful judgement of his peers and the law of the land."

Today was a bad day to be a queen in #Tudor England.

#OTD in 1499, Catherine of Aragon was married (by proxy) to Prince Arthur. She was 13.

#OTD in 1536, Anne Boleyn was executed at the @TowerOfLondon.

#OTD in 1568, Queen Elizabeth I ordered the arrest of Mary, Queen of Scots.

#OTD in 1796, Dr Edward Jenner administered a vaccination against smallpox.

“I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world-when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox.”

Jenner's pioneering work saved millions of lives.

Today is the Feast of the #Ascension.

"And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven."

Luke 24:50-51

#OTD in 1915, the RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat.

1,198 people were killed, including 128 American citizens.

The sinking of the Lusitania turned political, press and public opinion in the USA against Germany.

The USA eventually declared war on Germany in April 1917.

#OTD in 1770, William Wordsworth was born at Cockermouth in the Lake District.

“Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.”

Today is #PalmSunday.

“On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord.”

#OTD in 1885, The Mikado was first performed at the
@SavoyTheatreLdn.

The ninth of Gilbert and Sullivan’s fourteen comic operas, The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu had the second-longest run of any piece of musical theatre.

It remains the most performed of the Savoy operas.