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Written by Cordelia Beattie on 2025-01-30 at 11:59

30 Jan. 1648 #otd King Charles I was beheaded in London. A contemporary, Alice Thornton, wrote: 'cruelly murdered by the hands of blasphemous rebels… Let his admirable book speak his Eternal Glory and praise, the best of kings … that ever this Earth had' (Bk 1). For more on this book, Eikon Basilike, see Suzanne Trill's new blog post: https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2025-01-29-Eikon-Basilike-Blog/

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Written by Hervé :spacecore: 🇵🇸 on 2025-01-30 at 12:04

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Written by Cordelia Beattie on 2025-01-30 at 13:33

Yes, good catch - Thornton uses the old style of dating where 1649 only started on 25 March. @captainb @earlymodern @histodons

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Written by Hervé :spacecore: 🇵🇸 on 2025-01-30 at 13:38

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After I posted my comment, I wondered if it was related to an old dating style. So that's it.

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Written by Willow on 2025-02-02 at 16:47

@captainb @CordeliaBeattie @earlymodern @histodons @bookhistodons @litstudies you'll often see dates written like 1648/9 to clarify this. My degree is in renaissance lit, and I kept running into these dates in grad school and had to figure out what they meant! I like having 3 New Years...Jan. 1, Chinese in Jan/Feb, and then March 25th ☺️

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Written by Peter Brown on 2025-02-02 at 19:26

@willowwren @captainb @CordeliaBeattie @earlymodern @histodons @bookhistodons @litstudies just to add to the confusion, Scotland along with most of Europe had made January 1 the new year by 1600 but England waited another 150 years to make the change. So there’s plenty of scope for confusing dates.

As far as Scotland is concerned, Charles the First was beheaded in 1649. His son was crowned in Edinburgh the same year, and his fine equestrian statue is in Parliament Square.

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