The Evening Post, 27 May 1924:
WOMEN IN PRINT.
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Patriotic New Zealanders occasionally are shocked by the ignorance of those with whom they come in contact abroad of the whereabouts of the best little country in the world. The training of business men does not always include geography, says the Otago “Daily Times,” but a university should not fall into the crude error revealed in an envelope received in Dunedin. A member of the Otago University staff has been in communication with the University of Geneva, and was pained to receive from that distinguished seat of learning the other day a letter addressed: “University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, U.S.A.” https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240527.2.116
See also Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omission_of_New_Zealand_from_maps #OnThisDay#OTD#PapersPast#NewZealand#Geography#WhereIsNewZealand
English amateur astronomer Richard Christopher Carrington was born #OTD in 1826.
In 1859 his astronomical observations demonstrated the existence of solar flares as well as suggesting their electrical influence upon the Earth & its aurorae; and whose 1863 records of sunspot observations revealed the differential rotation of the Sun. His publications include Results of Astronomical Observations Made at the Observatory of the University, Durham; & Observations of the Spots on the Sun.
26 May 1680: Christopher Davenport or Francis of St Clare #Franciscan, dies #otd at Somerset House #London. He tried to reconcile The Thirty Nine Articles with Catholic teaching (BM/eebo) No-one really thanked him for all this. He also a go at Hobbes.
26 May 1680: Christopher Davenport or Francis of St Clare #Franciscan, dies #otd at Somerset House #London. He tried to reconcile The Thirty Nine Articles with Catholic teaching (BM/eebo)
No-one really thanked him for this. He also a go at Hobbes.
26 May 1329: Edward III sails from Dover #otd to perform simple homage to King Philippe of #France for #Aquitaine#otd. He did so at Amiens cathedral on 29 June (National Trust images/HLawford)
26 May 1645: Lawrence Esmond, baron of Limberick Co. #Wexford dies #otd at Adamstown. He had been governor of the vitally strategic Duncannon Fort since 1606 till his troops mutinied & declared for #Parliament in Oct 1644 (BL/JMcC)
26 May 946: Edmund I King of #England murdered by Leofa, an exiled thief, while attending St Augustine's Day Mass #otd in Pucklechurch (South Gloucestershire)
French writer, literary critic, art critic, book publisher Edmond de Goncourt was born #OTD in 1822.
He was the founder of the Académie Goncourt. Some of his work was written in collaboration with his brother, Jules. Until his death in 1870, Jules was the main author of the Journal, which was then continued by Edmond, who remained alone. It consists of a collection of notes, generally brief, taken from day to day.
26 May 1599: John Darrell appears before High Commission charged with being an impostor exorcist #otd He’d been deprived of his licence to preach in 1597 (BM)
26 May 1599: John Bradshaw enters #Benedictine abbey of St. Martin in Compostella as novice, he takes name Augustine [of Canterbury] #otd (BM) - whose death date it was.
26 May 1634: John Bramhall, future Archbisop of Armagh, consecrated Bishop of #Derry#otd by James Ussher & bishops of Meath, Down & Connor & Cork (Sidney Sussex College)
At his point he was not yet 40, which caused some comment.