On This Day
973 – In the first coronation ceremony ever held for an English monarch, Edgar the Peaceful is crowned King of England, having ruled since 959 AD.[2] His wife, Ælfthryth, is crowned queen, the first recorded coronation for a Queen of England.[3]
Edgar (or Eadgar;[1] c. 944 – 8 July 975) was King of England from 959 until his death. He became king of all England on his brother’s death. He was the younger son of King Edmund I and his first wife Ælfgifu. A detailed account of Edgar’s reign is not possible, because only a few events were recorded by chroniclers and monastic writers were more interested in recording the activities of the leaders of the church.
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1715 – Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, German organist (d. 1739)[26]
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (11 May 1752 – 22 January 1840) was a German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist. He is considered to be a main founder of zoology and anthropology as comparative, scientific disciplines.[3]
He was one of the first to explore the study of the human being as an aspect of natural history. His teachings in comparative anatomy were applied to his classification of human races, of which he claimed there were five, Caucasian, Mongolian, Malayan, Ethiopian, and American.[4] He was a member of what modern historians call the Göttingen school of history.
Blumenbach’s peers considered him one of the great theorists of his day, and he was a mentor or influence on many of the next generation of German biologists, including Alexander von Humboldt.[5]
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