This was meant to be at the end of my post on Magnolias, but I didn’t manage to finish it on the day, so moved to April 16th, leaving On This Day adrift here, till next year!
On This Day
1471 – The Battle of Barnet; War of the Roses War in which the King Maker, the Earl of Warwick was killed and allowed Edward of York to recover the throne from Henry VI.
1775 – Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage Society set up in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush. It is the first abolition Society in the United States.
1865 – Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth at the Theatre. The play he was watching was Tom Taylor’s Our American Cousin. It was a ‘farcical comedy about a redneck American who travels to England to claim his inheritance from aristocratic relatives’ (what-play-was-abraham-lincoln-watching-when-he-was-shot).
1912 – Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic and begins to sink.
Published April 2026
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