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#OTD in 1877, Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India.
India had been under British government control since 1858, but in a bid to strengthen the ties between Britain and India and showcase the UK as a dominant world power, Parliament voted that Queen Victoria should be formally proclaimed as Empress of India.
The Delhi Durbar on New Year's Day saw more than 400 Indian princes, chiefs and officials had gathered together for the grand ceremony. Victoria was represented by Lord Lytton, Viceroy of India.
The following year, the Queen established the Order of the Indian Empire.
India had been under British government control since 1858, but in a bid to strengthen the ties between Britain and India and showcase the UK as a dominant world power, Parliament voted that Queen Victoria should be formally proclaimed as Empress of India.
The Delhi Durbar on New Year's Day saw more than 400 Indian princes, chiefs and officials had gathered together for the grand ceremony. Victoria was represented by Lord Lytton, Viceroy of India.
The following year, the Queen established the Order of the Indian Empire.
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Raping of a black woman by a white male was not against the law. It was not a crime.
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❤ The death of Catherine II of Russia (Catherine the Great) is one of the most gossiped-about and outlandishly mythical royal deaths in history.
❤ Why? Because her servants spread a rumor that she died while having sex with a horse!!
The truth in actuality, was far less scandalous.
❤ In reality, the 67 year old Catherine had a stroke on 16th November, 1796, she fell into a coma, and died the next day- leaving her estranged son, Paul I, as Russia's next ruler.
❤ The royal is recorded as having passed in her bed, though rumors abound she actually died on the toilet—a most unfashionable place for one's death!
❤ The most likely scenario, is she did suffer a stroke in the toilet (meaning bathroom) and dying the next day.
The rumour that Catherine died on the toilet, most likely originated from Catherine's enemies in the court.
❤ Why? Because her servants spread a rumor that she died while having sex with a horse!!
The truth in actuality, was far less scandalous.
❤ In reality, the 67 year old Catherine had a stroke on 16th November, 1796, she fell into a coma, and died the next day- leaving her estranged son, Paul I, as Russia's next ruler.
❤ The royal is recorded as having passed in her bed, though rumors abound she actually died on the toilet—a most unfashionable place for one's death!
❤ The most likely scenario, is she did suffer a stroke in the toilet (meaning bathroom) and dying the next day.
The rumour that Catherine died on the toilet, most likely originated from Catherine's enemies in the court.
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👑👑👑 MARIE ANTOINETTE 👑👑👑
👑 In an armchair, in a room at the Hofburg Palace, Vienna - at about 8.30 in the evening after an all-day labour, the future Queen of France was born.
👑 She was the 15th child and the 11th and last daughter of the Empress Maria Theresa and her husband, the Emperor Francis I.
👑 Habsburg princesses were all christened Maria, and the new arrival was baptized next day as Maria Antonia Josepha Joanna, and known in the family as Antoine.
👑 She was swiftly handed over to a wet nurse, and spent her first winter in the palace’s nursery wing.
👑 Marie's mother, whose routine day began at 4am in summer and 6am in winter, was too absorbed in affairs of state to have much time for her.
👑 In the summertime, the family left Vienna for Schönbrunn Palace in the countryside, set among gardens, woods and parkland where the children could run and play.
👑 In 1759, when she was three years old, Marie made her first official appearance singing in French - for her Father's Birthday.
👑 Marie's education was overseen by the easy-going Countess of Brandeis, who cut down the hours devoted to reading and writing when she found that the little girl’s interests did not run in that direction.....She preferred playing, and having fun - as she was to do all her life.
👑 All Maria Theresa’s daughters were pawns on the diplomatic chessboard, and Marie's turn would soon come.
Thirteen years old, blonde and blue-eyed with a delightful smile, her mother was bent on marrying her to the Dauphin Louis of France, grandson of Louis XV.
👑 A French dentist straightened her teeth and a French hairdresser saw to her hair styles.
Her education was badly in need of repair as well, and the Empress asked the French King for a tutor.
👑 Charming and graceful, Marie was fourteen in 1770, when her marriage to the 15-year-old Dauphin was celebrated in a stately ceremony in Vienna.
👑 She wore a dress of silver brocade with a long train and knelt next to her brother Ferdinand, who stood proxy for the Dauphin.
👑 Five days later, she left by coach for the long journey to France where the King and her dull new husband awaited her.
👑 Waiting for her in the future...... terror, and the guillotine, she would be just 37 when she was executed in 1793 👑
👑 In an armchair, in a room at the Hofburg Palace, Vienna - at about 8.30 in the evening after an all-day labour, the future Queen of France was born.
👑 She was the 15th child and the 11th and last daughter of the Empress Maria Theresa and her husband, the Emperor Francis I.
👑 Habsburg princesses were all christened Maria, and the new arrival was baptized next day as Maria Antonia Josepha Joanna, and known in the family as Antoine.
👑 She was swiftly handed over to a wet nurse, and spent her first winter in the palace’s nursery wing.
👑 Marie's mother, whose routine day began at 4am in summer and 6am in winter, was too absorbed in affairs of state to have much time for her.
👑 In the summertime, the family left Vienna for Schönbrunn Palace in the countryside, set among gardens, woods and parkland where the children could run and play.
👑 In 1759, when she was three years old, Marie made her first official appearance singing in French - for her Father's Birthday.
👑 Marie's education was overseen by the easy-going Countess of Brandeis, who cut down the hours devoted to reading and writing when she found that the little girl’s interests did not run in that direction.....She preferred playing, and having fun - as she was to do all her life.
👑 All Maria Theresa’s daughters were pawns on the diplomatic chessboard, and Marie's turn would soon come.
Thirteen years old, blonde and blue-eyed with a delightful smile, her mother was bent on marrying her to the Dauphin Louis of France, grandson of Louis XV.
👑 A French dentist straightened her teeth and a French hairdresser saw to her hair styles.
Her education was badly in need of repair as well, and the Empress asked the French King for a tutor.
👑 Charming and graceful, Marie was fourteen in 1770, when her marriage to the 15-year-old Dauphin was celebrated in a stately ceremony in Vienna.
👑 She wore a dress of silver brocade with a long train and knelt next to her brother Ferdinand, who stood proxy for the Dauphin.
👑 Five days later, she left by coach for the long journey to France where the King and her dull new husband awaited her.
👑 Waiting for her in the future...... terror, and the guillotine, she would be just 37 when she was executed in 1793 👑
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French soldiers equipped with gas masks in France, 1917.
“I watched figures running wildly in confusion over the fields. Greenish-gray clouds swept down upon them, turning yellow as they traveled over the country blasting everything they touched and shriveling up the vegetation…..Then there staggered into our midst French soldiers, blinded, coughing, chests heaving, faces an ugly purple color, lips speechless with agony, and behind them in the gas soaked trenches, we learned that they had left hundreds of dead and dying comrades.” -memories of a British soldier.
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“I watched figures running wildly in confusion over the fields. Greenish-gray clouds swept down upon them, turning yellow as they traveled over the country blasting everything they touched and shriveling up the vegetation…..Then there staggered into our midst French soldiers, blinded, coughing, chests heaving, faces an ugly purple color, lips speechless with agony, and behind them in the gas soaked trenches, we learned that they had left hundreds of dead and dying comrades.” -memories of a British soldier.
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December 30, 1662: Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Further Austria, died at age thirty-four in Kaltern. The eldest son of Archduke Leopold V and Claudia de' Medici, he succeeded his father upon the latter's death in 1632, under his mother's regency but took control personally in 1646. Profligate and extravagant, he sold goods and entitlements to fund his lavish lifestyle, wasting the exorbitant sum which France had to pay to the Tyrolean Habsburgs for the cession of their fiefs west of the Rhine. An absolutist ruler, he did not call any diet after 1648 and had his chancellor Wilhelm Biener executed illegally in 1651 after a secret trial.
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[Portrait by Frans Luycx]
Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Tyrol
Ferdinand Karl was the eldest son of Archduke Leopold V and Claudia de Medici. His father had founded the Tyrolean cadet branch of the Habsburgs and Ferdinand was to be his successor. As he was only four years old when his father died, his mother reigned in his stead. In 1646 he attained his...
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[Portrait by Frans Luycx]
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1 January 1918, Northern France
This photo is of a series of photographs of Labour Corps members. The caption identifies these seven men as 'native police'. They are black South Africans who had contracted to work in the South African Native Labour Contingent (SANLC). In general the native police and NCOs were recruited from tribal chiefs or high-status native families.
The South African Native Labour Corps in 1916 in response to a British request for workers at French ports. About 25,000 South Africans joined the Corps. The SANLC was utilized in various menial noncombat tasks. The SANLC was disbanded by the South African government in January 1918
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records 1,304 deaths for the South African Native Labour Corps whose graves and memorials are found mostly in the UK, France and South Africa. Thirteen black servicemen were killed by their officers and NCO's when they mutinied over the imprisonment of a colleague though this incident was kept quiet. Another 331 died in France of medical reasons, probably tuberculosis. And lastly 607 black servicemen and nine white officers or NCO's died when the ship SS Mendi sank in a collision with another ship in the English Channel.
War decorations
The South African government issued no war service medal to the black servicemen and the special medal issued by King George V to "native troops" that served the Empire, the British War Medal in bronze, was disallowed and not issued to the SANLC. It was also said that any compensation scheme issued to servicemen by the South African government was said to be unfair.
Colour by Jake https://www.facebook.com/HistoryisallaboutColour/
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This photo is of a series of photographs of Labour Corps members. The caption identifies these seven men as 'native police'. They are black South Africans who had contracted to work in the South African Native Labour Contingent (SANLC). In general the native police and NCOs were recruited from tribal chiefs or high-status native families.
The South African Native Labour Corps in 1916 in response to a British request for workers at French ports. About 25,000 South Africans joined the Corps. The SANLC was utilized in various menial noncombat tasks. The SANLC was disbanded by the South African government in January 1918
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records 1,304 deaths for the South African Native Labour Corps whose graves and memorials are found mostly in the UK, France and South Africa. Thirteen black servicemen were killed by their officers and NCO's when they mutinied over the imprisonment of a colleague though this incident was kept quiet. Another 331 died in France of medical reasons, probably tuberculosis. And lastly 607 black servicemen and nine white officers or NCO's died when the ship SS Mendi sank in a collision with another ship in the English Channel.
War decorations
The South African government issued no war service medal to the black servicemen and the special medal issued by King George V to "native troops" that served the Empire, the British War Medal in bronze, was disallowed and not issued to the SANLC. It was also said that any compensation scheme issued to servicemen by the South African government was said to be unfair.
Colour by Jake https://www.facebook.com/HistoryisallaboutColour/
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