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24th March 1619
Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick, died at Warwick House in Holborn.

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Wishing the wonderful actor, producer, director, writer & presenter Alan Cumming a happy 61st birthday! 🎁

#DoctorWho #TheWitchfinders #KingJamesI #Lux #MrRingADing #LuxImperator

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7th January 1619
Nicholas Hilliard, goldsmith & miniaturist, was buried at the parish church of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London.
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💥 #OTD in #History 5 November 1605 – #GunpowderPlot: #GuyFawkes was arrested in the cellars of the Houses of Parliament, where he had planted gunpowder in a plot to blow up the building and kill #KingJamesI of England.

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29th October 1618
Sir Walter Raleigh, courtier, explorer, author and soldier, was executed at the old palace yard of the Palace of Westminster.

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#OnThisDay in 1612, British #KingJamesI appoints musician Robert Dowland court lutenist.

🎭 #OTD in the #History of #Theatre and #Literature 7 August 1606, #WilliamShakespeare staged MACBETH for #KingJamesI and his brother-in-law, King Christian IV of Denmark, at the Great Hall at Hampton Court Palace. It may have been the debut of the Scottish play.

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19th July 1603
Sir Walter Raleigh was arrested and charged with treason for his involvement in the Main plot (conspiracy to replace King James I with his cousin Arbella Stuart)

#WalterRaleigh #SirWalterRaleigh #Treason #MainPlot #Adventurer #KingJamesI #Stuarts #History

The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham by Lucy Hughes-Hallett 2024

#TBR #KingJamesI #Booksky 💡📚💙 The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham by

Lucy Hughes-Hallett 2024

However, #KingJamesI also granted a monopoly on #tobacco to the #VirginiaCompany, in exchange for a tax of 1 shilling / pound.

DYK bible-producer #KingJamesI declared he loved his favorite lover, #GeorgeVilliers? James said he was “neither a god nor an angel, but a man like any other”. Yet he allowed #QueerSex to remain a crime during his reign. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HappyPride #QueerHistory

Printed colour postcard showing an illustration of King James I visiting Oxford in 1605, produced for the Oxford Pageant in 1907. Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons, Oilette, Oxford Pageant Series III, No 9518, 1907. Postally unused. Very good condition, with very slight corner bumps.

Visit of King James I to Oxford in 1605, Oxford Pageant, 1907 - Tuck's Postcard

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King James I & VI Anglo-Scottish monarch King James I and VI of England and Scotland was BOTD in 1566. Born in Edinburgh Castle, he was the only son of Mary Queen of Scots and her second husband Henry Stuart, Lord D…

Anglo-Scottish monarch, witch-hunter, rampant homosexual and insatiable bottom King James I and VI of England and Scotland was BOTD in 1566. #kingjamesi #kingjamesvi #supergays #bornonthisday #badgays

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1st June 1563
Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, was born in Westminster, London.

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#OTD
29th May 1555
George Carew, Earl of Totnes, was born. He was a soldier, administrator and Lord President of Munster.
He was also a member of King James I's Privy Council.

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29th March 1613
Sir Thomas Bodley, founder of the Bodleian Library Oxford, was laid to rest in Merton College Chapel, Oxford.

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King James I (1566-1625), English Monarch

Died #otd King James I (1566-1625), English Monarch, 400 years ago today #KingJamesI life story...

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24th March 1619
Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick, politician, died at Warwick House in Holborn.

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A complex monarch who shaped language, religion & politics. His Bible translation still impacts English today.
#KingJames #BritishHistory #KJVBible . #KingJamesVI #KingJamesI #History #Legacy