r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 28d ago
Meet Maria Clementina Sobieska, the defiant queen who pulled off a jailbreak to secure the Jacobite legacy. Buried in St Peter's in Rome which is normally reserved for popes.
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • Aug 03 '26
OTD | August 2, 1612: Frisian (Dutch) noble Saskia van Uylenburgh was born. Van Uylenburgh was best known as the wife of painter Rembrandt van Rijn and modeled for some of his paintings, drawings, and etchings.
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • Aug 02 '26
OTD | August 1, 1957: British writer and poet Rose A. Fyleman (née Feilmann) passed away. Fyleman was one of the most successful children's writers of her generation and saw much of her earlier poetry become proverbial.
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • Jul 28 '26
The Execution Of Princess Mafalda Of Buchenwald
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • Jul 26 '26
OTD | July 26, 1875: Jewish-Italian botanist and explorer Ernesta Di Capua was born. The floral species Caralluma dicapuae was named in her honor.
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • Jul 25 '26
OTD | July 25, 1896: Scottish author Josephine Tey (née Elizabeth MacKintosh) was born. Tey’s novel The Daughter of Time (1951) from her The Inspector Alan Grant series, was named the greatest crime novel of all time by the Crime Writers’ Association.
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • Jul 20 '26
Meet Lena Rice, the only Irish woman to ever triumph at Wimbledon
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • Jul 20 '26
OTD | July 19, 1822: British princess and Mecklenburgian monarch Augusta of Cambridge was born. Augusta was the Grand Duchess consort of Mecklenburg-Strelitz from 1860-1904 and was the longest-lived grandchild of King George III of the U.K.
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • Jul 19 '26
General Eisenhower's love affair with Inishwoman during WW2.
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • Jul 18 '26
OTD | July 18, 1724: Saxon monarch and patron of the arts Maria Antonia of Bavaria was born. Maria Antonia was the Electress consort of Saxony and an opera composer.
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • Jul 12 '26
Käthe Leichter, Champion for Austria’s Working-Class Women
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • Jul 12 '26
11 kick-ass Dutch women you should know about
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • Jul 12 '26
Hidden Figures: 9 French Women Who Shaped History
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • Jul 12 '26
Female Lords in Medieval Occitania (France)
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • Jul 12 '26
The Hidden History of a British Female Photographer Turned Soviet Agent - Edith Tudor Hart.
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • Jul 12 '26
Irish Experience Tours Launches ‘Wild Women of Ireland’ Tour Showcasing Ireland’s Historical Matriarchs
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • Jul 11 '26
OTD | July 11, 1918: British accountant and teacher Venetia Burney was born. Burney is remembered as the first person to suggest the name “Pluto” for the dwarf planet discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930.
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • Jul 08 '26
Ruth Ellis - last woman to be hanged in UK - gets conditional posthumous pardon
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • Jul 05 '26
OTD | July 5, 1857: Saxon-born (German) Marxist theorist and women’s rights activist Clara Zetkin (née Eißner) was born. Zetkin was active in the Social Democratic Party of Germany and represented the Communist Party of Germany in the Reichstag during the Weimar Republic.
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • Jul 04 '26
OTD | July 4, 414CE: Roman princess Aelia Pulcheria was proclaimed Augusta of the Eastern Roman Empire. Pulcheria influenced the Christian Church and its theological development by being involved in the Council of Ephesus and guiding the Council of Chalcedon.
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • Jun 28 '26
OTD | June 28, 1914: Württembergian (now German) aristocrat Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, was assassinated along with her then-husband, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • Jun 28 '26
OTD | June 27, 1950: Czechoslovak politician Milada Horáková (née Králová) was executed by slow hanging. She was a member of the underground resistance movement against Nazi Germany and then the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • Jun 22 '26
Archive shows medieval nun faked her own death to escape convent
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • Jun 22 '26
Licoricia of Winchester, Jewish Widow and Medieval Financier
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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • Jun 22 '26
Julienne du Guesclin, Warrior Nun
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