Eights 1820

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• In other news ... [1820]

  Monarch: George IV

  Prime Minister: Lord Liverpool (Tory)

  May 1

  The last hanging, drawing and quartering in Britain is meted out to the Cato Street conspirators for treason (only hanged and beheaded).

  May 11

  HMS Beagle (the ship that will later take young Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage) is launched at Woolwich Dockyard.

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