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Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton (1573–1624)

English courtier, patron of Shakespeare. Shakespeare dedicated Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece to him and may have addressed him in the sonnets.


From the Hutchinson Encyclopedia of World History. © Research Machines plc [2006] All Rights Reserved, Helicon Publishing is a division of Research Machines.
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10 April 1912
The Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England on what is to be it last trip.
2 May 1969
Britain's latest cruise liner, the Queen Elizabeth II (QE2), the last of the Cunard liners built for transatlantic service, sails on her maiden voyage from Southampton.
27 May 1936
In England, RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton on her maiden voyage to New York with more than 1800 passengers.
13 June 1944
World War II: the first German V1 flying bomb, or 'doodlebug' lands in Britain - killing three people in a house in the coastal city of Southampton.
14 September 1951
British Prime Minister Clement Attlee opens the largest oil refinery in Europe in Southampton.
11 November 1831
In America, Nat Turner, the leader of a bloody slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia, is hanged.
 

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