23 May 1557: At St. Saviour's #Southwark, John White, Bishop of #Winchester preaches #otd against an unnamed heretic who was, apparently, in the congregation (BM) #mortified
23 May 1533: Archbishop Cranmer of #Canterbury pronounces marriage of Katherine of Aragon & Henry VIII null & void #otd (NPG) being ‘against the law of God’
23 May 1586: Henry Goodcole future minister, prison visitor & bestselling author on Elizabeth Sawyer 'The Witch of Edmondton' baptised #otd at St. James #Clerkenwell (eebo)
German mineralogist and physicist Franz Ernst Neumann died #OTD in 1895.
Neumann made significant advances in the mathematical understanding of crystal structures & their physical properties. His work laid the groundwork for the field of crystallography. He also developed the concept of the piezoelectric effect in crystals.In 1831, he established the Neumann's Law: the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents.
23 May 1660: Charles II sets sail for #England#otd from Dutch shores - having turned down #Spanish & #French invites to depart from their territories; he enters #London in triumph on his 30th birthday, 29 May (Wallace Collection) #Restoration
23 May 1498: Girolamo Savonarola #Dominican preacher & visionary burnt at the stake in #Florence#otd only months after he & his followers had been lighting bonfires of vanities (M SanMarco)
American journalist, editor, critic, translator, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement Margaret Fuller was born #OTD in 1810.
She was the first American female war correspondent and full-time book reviewer in journalism. Her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century is considered the first major feminist work in the United States.