- Electric Car — 2023-08-27 16:16:21
…r" Image="ThomasParker.jpg" Who="Thomas Parker" width="330" birth_date="22 December 1843" birth_place="Coalbrookdale [[Shropshire]]" death_date="5 December 1915" death_place="Ironbridge" }} === Thomas Parker 1884 === ~-[[CategoryTransport]]:[[Cate…
- Modern Olympics — 2021-08-14 20:26:14
…d at instigating physical education in French schools. Brookes invited Coubertain to his annual games in Much Wenlock [[Shropshire]] and even closed the entire town to concentrate on impressing his guest. The Baron stayed in Brookes' own home and des…
…d in France and Brookes was invited to attend. Unfortunately he was unable to go due to ill health. In 1896 however the Shropshire doctor's dream was realised. The first revived Olympics were held in **Athens** during the month of April. Tragically, … - Industrial Revolution — 2021-08-08 21:48:46
…al Revolution. He followed in his father's footsteps at the Darby foundry in Coalbrookdale in the Ironbridge Gorge in [[Shropshire]], refining techniques for producing wrought iron from pig iron and producing the iron to replace the more expensive br…
- Charles Darwin — 2020-08-06 07:52:58
…2" death_place="" }} ==Charles Robert Darwin== ~-[[CategoryScience]]::[[1800s]] Charles Darwin, born in Shrewsbury, [[Shropshire]], [[England]], established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors. === Origin of Spe…
- Shropshire — 2016-01-11 14:50:51
…Shropshire :: [[England]] {{Category}} Inventions made up in Shropshire…
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- 23 April 1996.
This month 28 years ago the world lost P. L. Travers - 19 April 1882.
This month 142 years ago the world lost Charles Darwin - 23 April 1616.
This month 408 years ago the world lost William Shakespeare - 25 April 1769.
On this day 255 years ago Marc Isambard Brunel was born - 05 April 1811.
This month 213 years ago the world lost Robert Raikes - 30 April 1792.
This month 231 years ago the world lost John Montagu - 11 April 2008.
This month 16 years ago the world lost Peter Hobbs - 10 April 2013.
This month 11 years ago the world lost Robert Geoffrey Edwards - 25 April 2001.
On this day 23 years ago Harold Ridley - Trouser Press. 100 years ago July 8 1924 Peter Corby was born
- 25 April 1874.
On this day 150 years ago Guglielmo Marconi was born - 18 April 1945.
This month 79 years ago the world lost John Ambrose Fleming - 05 April 2012.
This month 12 years ago the world lost Jim Marshall - 200 years ago in 1824 Portland cement is patented
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