It happened today – this day in history – May 8
1348: A ship from Bordeaux carrying the plague, lands in Melcombe Regis (now Weymouth), Dorset. 1360: The Treaty of Brétigny
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Read more1360: The Treaty of Brétigny signed by England and France ends the first phase of the Hundred Years’ War. 1521:
Read more1797: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, second wife of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and author, in 1818, of Frankenstein, was born in
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