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The first major battle of the English Civil War was fought 23 October 1642

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12 February, 1554

Lady Jane Grey executed

Grey became famous as the 'Nine Days Queen', a pawn in the ambitions of the Earl of Northumberland

This monarch died at the abbey of St Gervais, near Paris

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