Wednesday, 4 March 2020

Chicago

Happy birthday Chicago. (it was incorporated as a city on 4 March 1837). 

Monday, 2 March 2020

Philadelphia

In 1681 King Charles II granted a large amount of land in North America to a Quaker named William Penn. He established the colony of Pennsylvania. Penn sailed to North America in 1682. When he arrived he founded the city of Philadelphia

Thursday, 27 February 2020

Wednesday, 26 February 2020

Christopher Marlowe

The great Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe was baptised on 26 February 1564. We don't know the exact date of his birth because in those days they recorded the date of rhe baptism not the birth. www.localhistories.org/marlowe.html