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Há 1 dia · The practice of afternoon tea has a cast of characters that includes Charles II and his queen, Catherine of Braganza; the Duchess of Bedford; and the Earl of Sandwich. If the monarch and his Portuguese wife popularised tea in England in the mid-1600s, then the (seventh) Duchess is credited with establishing the practice of afternoon tea circa 1840 as a stopgap meal halfway between lunch and ...
Há 2 dias · The East India Company ( EIC) [a] was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. [4] It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia ), and later with East Asia. The company gained control of large parts of the Indian ...
- 31 December 1600; 422 years ago
Há 4 dias · Catherine of Braganza, the poor neglected queen of Charles II., invited over to England some members of a sisterhood at Munich, called the Institute of the Blessed Virgin, and these she settled and supported during her husband's life in a house in St. Martin's Lane.
Há 5 dias · Catherine of Braganza There are a number of pictures showing the Queen's House at this period. Perhaps the best-known ones are the copies of the painting by Dankaerts, one of which is in the possession of the Trustees of the National Maritime Museum (Plate 12).
Há 5 dias · House of Braganza: Catherine Duchess of Braganza 1540–1614: João I 6th Duke of Braganza 1543–1583: Juan Manuel Duke of Medina Sidonia 1579–1636: Teodósio II 7th Duke of Braganza 1568–1630: Luisa de Guzmán 1613–1666: John IV King of Portugal 1604–1656 r. 1640–1656: Philip William Elector Palatine 1615–1690: Teodósio Prince of ...
Há 4 dias · In 1660 the manor was restored to Henrietta Maria (d. 1669), and it was subsequently granted by Charles II to Catherine of Braganza (d. 1705), who appears to have been the last queen to hold it. (fn. 57) After the Restoration Havering was never again a royal residence, and the fragmentation of the park was maintained, both divisions ...
Há 4 dias · EIC representatives set up outposts on the Indian coasts; two of these were the future Calcutta and the future Madras. (The EIC later got control of the future Bombay as part of the marriage arrangement between Portugal's Catherine of Braganza and England's King Charles II.) The company soon had dozens of factories in various parts of India.
