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Gloucester Day is a recently reinstated annual day of celebration of the City of Gloucester's history and culture. The day was first held in the modern era on 5 September 2009 [ 1 ] but originally dates from the lifting of the Siege of Gloucester in 1643, during which the city held out against Royalist forces during the First English Civil War .
This is a timeline of the history of the city ... St. Peter's Fiesta a five-day festival honoring the ... 1860), History of the Town of Gloucester, Cape ...
Gloucester (/ ˈ ɡ l ɒ s t ər / ⓘ GLOSS-tər) is a cathedral city, non-metropolitan district and the county town of Gloucestershire in the South West of England.Gloucester lies on the River Severn, between the Cotswolds to the east and the Forest of Dean to the west; it is sited 19 miles (31 km) from Monmouth, 33 miles (53 km) from Bristol, and 17 miles (27 km) east of the border with Wales.
Dukedom of Gloucester (1st creation) extinct, 1397: King Henry IV 1367–1413: John Beaufort 1373–1410 1st Earl of Somerset: Joan Beaufort c. 1379 –1440: Duke of Gloucester (2nd creation), 1414: Humphrey of Lancaster 1390–1447 Duke of Gloucester: John Beaufort 1404–1444 Duke of Somerset: Cecily Neville 1415–1495: Dukedom of Gloucester ...
Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester, Makes Royal History Today. Emily Burack. June 17, 2024 at 6:00 AM ... Prince Richard of Gloucester and Birgitte van Deurs on their wedding day.
More than 100 officers ultimately responded to the melee at the Gloucester Township Day celebration , says a police account. No serious injuries were reported, but the crowd's "total disregard for ...
On the subdivision of the Mercian diocese in 680 the greater part of modern Gloucestershire was included in the diocese of Worcester, [9] and shortly after the Conquest constituted the archdeaconry of Gloucester, which in 1290 comprised the deaneries of Campden, Stow, Cirencester, Fairford, Winchcombe, Stonehouse, Hawkesbury, Bitton, Bristol, Dursley and Gloucester.
In the United States, President Woodrow Wilson hailed the first Armistice Day celebration on 11 November 1919, although it would not be formalised by Congress until 1926. France followed suit in ...