Richard Cavendish

Richard Cavendish marks the anniversary of a crown appointment for the great poet, on 16 March 1649.

Richard Cavendish marks the anniversary of a successful night at the Academy Awards for Laurence Olivier, on March 24th, 1949.

Richard Cavendish remembers the events of March 5th, 1849

Fighting broke out in the Philippines on the night of February 4th, 1899, after an American patrol shot a Filipino guerrilla.

Richard Cavendish explains the life and death of Henry IV's father, on February 3rd, 1399

Richard Cavendish recreates the scene of the famous Victorian Tory leader's accession, on February 22nd 1849.

Thomas Cranmer's prayer book was published on January 15th, 1549.

The formal handover took place on January 6th, 1899.

On December 20th, 1898, Pierre Curie scrawled the word 'radium' in his notebook as the name for a new element he and his wife Marie had discovered in their laboratory in Paris.

Prince Louis Napoleon was forty when he won the election for the French presidency on December 10th, 1848.