On this day

1413: Henry IV, also known as Henry of Bolingbroke, died aged 45 after suffering a stroke at Westminster Abbey.

1549: Death of Thomas Seymour, Lord High Admiral of England, who married Henry VIII’s widow Catherine Parr. When she died, he planned to marry Princess Elizabeth – butwas arrested for treason and executed.

1806: The foundation stone of Dartmoor Prison in Devon was laid by Thomas Tyrwhitt.

1815: After his banishment to Elba, Napoleon returned to regain power in France. Itwas his “Last Hundred Days”, ended by defeat at Waterloo.

1819: The famous and exclusive Burlington Arcade opened in London.

1852: Uncle Tom’s Cabin, an anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, was published. It became the best-selling novel of the 19th century.

1969: Beatle John Lennon married Yoko Ono in Gibraltar.

1974: An attempt to kidnap Princess Anne was made by a gunman who fired six shots, then tried to drag her from her car in Pall Mall. Hewas later charged with attempted murder.

1980: The pirate radio station Radio Caroline, on the ship Mi Amigo, sank after 16 years of broadcasting. 1989: The IRA killed two senior Royal Ulster Constabulary officers in an ambush.

ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: Itwas revealed that television cameras were to be allowed into crown courts south of the border for the first time.