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Originally Posted by BossMark

1483 - King Richard III of England was crowned.

1699 - Captain William Kidd, the pirate, was captured in Boston, MA and deported back to England.

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1189 - Richard the Lionheart is crowned King of England.

Poor Captain Kidd was wrongfully executed in a political trial because he could not produce the above privateer documents (Conveniently misplaced for over 200 years) at at his London trial without which he was deemed an outright pirate; after which he was executed by hanging and then hung in chains, tarred, in a Thames estuary for three years, until nothing but bones were left. He should be granted a posthumous pardon. He never betrayed his political financial backers and maintained his innocence to the end. Richard III was just rediscovered, hastily buried, this year in Leicester-battle scarred, spine curved (scoliosis-Shakespeare got it right) and still bound at the wrists. His lower legs are missing from a previous excavation, He will reburied as befits an annointed king of England. Richard "the Lionheart" is or was buried in three places: Richard's heart was buried at Rouen in Normandy, the entrails in Chalus (where he died), and the rest of his body was buried at the feet of his father at Fontevraud Abbey in Anjou...the family plot if you will...Richard I was never a big-hearted guy-even less so now... <the heart of the Lionheart autopsied for poison two yaers ago-no poison found.