Friday, November 27, 2015

History Trivia - First Eddystone Lighthouse destroyed in Great Storm

November 27

8 BC, Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) the great Roman lyric poet, died at Venusia, in Apulia at age 56. 

1582 William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway. 

1703 The first Eddystone Lighthouse (south west of Rame Head, UK) was destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703

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