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Henry, Patrick (1736–1799)

US patriot who in 1775 supported the arming of the Virginia militia against the British by a speech ending, ‘Give me liberty or give me death!’ He was governor of Virginia 1776–79 and 1784–86.

Henry assisted in the creation of the Continental Congress, of which he was a member. He opposed ratification of the US Constitution on the grounds that it jeopardized states' rights. His influence, however, helped to ensure the passage of ten amendments to it, constituting the Bill of Rights.

Henry was born in Studley, Virginia, and became a very successful lawyer. In 1765 he became a member of the Virginian House of Burgesses, and in the same year declared the Stamp Act illegal. He was known as an outstanding speaker.


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6 January 1540
English King Henry VIII marries his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
18 January 1670

Welshman, Sir Henry Morgan captures Panama.

19 January 1419

The Hundred Years War: Rouen formally surrenders to King Henry V of England.

25 January 1533

In England, King Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn.

28 January 1077

Henry IV, The Holy Roman Emperor is re-emitted into the Church after being absolved by Pope Gregory VII. Henry had originally been excommunicated after he had sought to challenge the Pope’s reforms to the investiture process. These events are commonly referred to as the 'Walk to Canossa'.

13 February 1542

The fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, Catherine Howard, is executed.

21 February 1970

The Vietnam War: American National Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger begins secret peace talks with North Vietnamese representative Le Duc Tho, in Paris.

4 March 1461
Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his cousin, Edward of York, who subsequently becomes King Edward IV.
12 March 1868
In Australia, Henry James O'Farrell attempts to assassinate Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
14 March 1590
During the French Wars of Religion, Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne at the Battle of Ivry.
15 March 1906
In Britain, Rolls-Royce Ltd is officially registered, with Charles S. Rolls and F. Henry Royce as directors.
18 March 1850
Henry Wells and William G. Fargo found American Express.
20 March 1413
Henry V ascends to the English throne.
9 April 1413
Henry V is crowned King of England.
13 April 1598
The Edict of Nantes is issued by Henry IV of France, granting freedom of religion to the Huguenots.
22 April 1509
Henry VIII becomes King of England.
26 April 1607
Captain John Smith lands at Cape Henry, in Virginia with the first group of colonists who establish a permanent English settlement in America.
12 May 1264
In England, The Battle of Lewes, between King Henry III of England and Simon de Montfort, begins.
14 May 1264
English barons commanded by Simon de Montfort defeat the forces of Henry III at the Battle of Lewes, leaving de Montfort as the de facto ruler of the country.
18 May 1152
Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine, marries Henry Plantagenet (later Henry II of England).
19 May 1536

Anne Boleyn, second wife of King Henry VIII of England and mother of Elizabeth (the future Queen Elizabeth) is executed outside the Tower of London for alleged adultery.

21 May 1966
American boxer Cassius Clay (Muhammed Ali) ends the hopes of British heavyweight champion Henry Cooper winning the world heavyweight titles when the bout is stopped in Round 6 because of a severe cut above Cooper's eye.
23 May 1533
In England, The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, declares Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon to be void and his marriage to Anne Boleyn legal.
30 May 1536
King Henry VIII of England marries his third wife, Jane Seymour - 11 days after the execution of wife number two, Anne Boleyn.
4 June 1039
Henry III becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
15 June 1877
Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point.
22 June 1611
After spending a winter trapped by ice in present-day Hudson Bay, the starving crew of the Discovery mutinies against its captain, English navigator Henry Hudson, and sets him, his teenage son, and seven supporters adrift in a small, open boat. Hudson and the eight others are never seen again.
23 June 1964
The Vietnam War: President Lyndon B. Johnson announces that Henry Cabot Lodge has resigned as ambassador to South Vietnam and that Gen. Maxwell Taylor will be his replacement.
27 June 1963
The Vietnam War: President John F. Kennedy appoints Henry Cabot Lodge as Ambassador to Vietnam.
6 July 1535
Sir Thomas More, English statesman and Lord Chancellor, is executed on Tower Hill in London for treason - refusing to accept, officially and publicly, Henry VIII as head of the Church of England.
9 July 1540
Henry VIII of England divorces his fourth wife Anne of Cleves.
12 July 1543
Henry VIII of England marries his sixth and final wife, Catherine Parr at Hampton Court Palace.
19 July 1545
English warship Mary Rose, pride of the battle fleet of King Henry VIII, sinks in the Solent with the loss of 700 lives. The ship is raised on October 11, 1982 and taken to Portsmouth Dockyard.
21 July 1403
In England, Henry IV defeats a rebel army led by Henry Percy at the Battle of Shrewsbury.
28 July 1540
On the orders of Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell, the King's chief minister, is executed in the Tower of London.
29 July 1565
Mary Queen of Scots marries her cousin, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley.
30 July 1898
British sculptor Henry Moore is born in Yorkshire.
2 August 1610
English explorer Henry Hudson sails into what it is now known as Hudson Bay in Canada.
4 August 1969
The Vietnam War: The first secret negotiating session takes place between Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy in Paris.
5 August 1100
Henry I is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey in London.
7 August 1782
Henry Tudor, the future Henry VII of England, lands in Wales at the start of his succesful bid to take the English throne.
18 August 1572
The Huguenot King Henry IV of Navarre marries Marguerite de Valois.
22 August 1973
Henry Kissinger is named U.S. Secretary of State replacing William Rogers.
3 September 1189
Richard the Lionheart is crowned King of England at Westminster following the death of his father, Henry II.
16 September 1400
Welshmen Owain Glyndŵr is proclaimed Prince of Wales by his followers. Glyndŵr launches a revolt against the rule of Henry IV of England.
23 September 1112
Papacy and the Holy Roman Empire settle their difference when Pope Calixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V sign the Concordat of Worms.
28 September 1106
Henry I of England defeats his brother Robert Curthose, the Duke of Normandy, at the Battle of Tinchebray in Normandy.
30 September 1399

Henry Bolingbroke is proclaimed King Henry IV of England upon the abdication of King Richard II.

7 October 1913
For the first time, Henry Ford’s entire Highland Park, Michigan automobile factory in America is run on a continuously moving assembly line.
11 October 1982
In England, the wreck of the Mary Rose, the flagship of King Henry VIII of England, is brought to the surface of the Solent 437 years after sinking whilst still in harbour.
13 October 1843
In New York City, America, Henry Jones and 11 others establish B'nai B'rith, one of the oldest Jewish charity organisations in the world.
16 October 1973
Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
25 October 1415
The Hundred Year’s War: The English Army, under King Henry V, defeats a vastly superior French Army at the Battle of Agincourt.
30 October 1470
Lancastrian King Henry VI is returned to the English after the Yorkists are defeated.
10 November 1871
Journalist Henry Morton Stanley, sent to Africa by his newspaper to find Scottish missionary Dr David Livingstone, finally makes contact with him in Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika in Zanzibar and asks, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”
4 December 1259
Louis IX of France and Henry III of England sign the Treaty of Paris. 
29 December 1170
In England, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Beckett, is murdered in his own cathedral by four knights believing they are acting on direct orders from King Henry II.
 

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