"As monarch of Fiji, Elizabeth supported the attempts of the Governor-General, Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, to assert executive power and negotiate a settlement. Coup leader Sitiveni Rabuka deposed Ganilau and declared Fiji a republic. In 1991, in the wake of coalition victory in the Gulf War, the Queen became the first British monarch to address a joint meeting of the United States Congress. In a speech on 24 November 1992, to mark the 40th anniversary of her accession, Elizabeth called 1992 her ""annus horribilis"", meaning ""horrible year"". Republican feeling in Britain had risen because of press estimates of the Queen's"
"the deadliest event of the year, the Indian Ocean tsunami on 26 December. In 2007, the Spanish Royal Family, in particular King Juan Carlos I, faced a difficult year. Family tragedy and a series of controversies led to Spanish newspapers to refer to the year as the king's ""annus horribilis"". Annus horribilis The phrase ""annus horribilis"" was used in 1891 in an Anglican publication to describe 1870, the year in which the Roman Catholic church defined the dogma of papal infallibility. The expression was brought to modern prominence by Queen Elizabeth II in a speech to Guildhall on 24 November"
"Annus Mirabilis (poem) Annus Mirabilis is a poem written by John Dryden published in 1667. It commemorated 1665–1666, the ""year of miracles"" of London. Despite the poem's name, the year had been one of great tragedy, including the Great Fire of London. The title was perhaps meant to suggest that the events of the year could have been worse. Dryden wrote the poem while at Charlton in Wiltshire, where he went to escape one of the great events of the year: the Great Plague of London. The title of Dryden's poem, used without capitalisation, ""annus mirabilis"", derives its meaning from"
"Annus mirabilis Annus mirabilis (pl. anni mirabiles) is a Latin phrase that means ""wonderful year"", ""miraculous year"" or ""amazing year"". This term was originally used to refer to the year 1666, and today is used to refer to several years during which events of major importance are remembered. Prior to this, however, Thomas Dekker used the phrase ""mirabilis annus"" in his 1603 pamphlet ""The Wonderful Year"", ""Wherein is shewed the picture of London lying sick of the plague."" The beginning of the Scientific Revolution when: According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first known written usage of the Latin phrase"
"""Annus Mirabilis"" is as the title of a poem composed by English poet John Dryden about the events of 1666. The phrase """"annus mirabilis"""" translates as ""wonderful year"" or ""year of miracles"". In fact, the year was beset by great calamity for England (including the Great Fire of London), but Dryden chose to interpret the absence of greater disaster as miraculous intervention by God, as ""666"" was then regarded as the Number of the Beast, and the year 1666 expected by some to be particularly disastrous. In addition to this, the English fleet defeated a Dutch fleet in the St"
"1992 as an ""annus horribilis"", a Latin phrase meaning ""horrible year"". Apart from the several hundred firemen directly involved in the fire-fight, staff and tradesmen helped the castle's fire brigade and volunteer salvage corps move furniture and works of art from the endangered apartments, including a long table and a long carpet from the Waterloo Chamber, to the safety of the castle's riding school. It was an enormous operation: 300 clocks, a collection of miniatures, thousands of valuable books and historic manuscripts, and old Master drawings from the Royal Library were saved. On fire officers' instructions, heavy chests and tables"
"London area in 1603, where ""wonderful"" refers to something surprising or astonishing. The year 1603 was generally characterized by extreme instability, both politically and economically. Dekker first eulogizes the death of Queen Elizabeth I, who had been queen since 1558. He laments the Elizabethan golden age and recalls how England's joy was suddenly eclipsed by Elizabeth's death. Dekker personifies Death and blames him for taking the Queen's life. Dekker recalls how the announcement of Elizabeth's death ""tooke away hearts from millions"" and plunged her subjects into grief. He recalls the widespread lamentation at her death and includes in his work"
"plague victims could double from morning to night. Overall, Dekker concludes that Death has the last say, and the widespread fear of and the struggle to avoid death during 1603 made ""fooles"" of everyone. The Wonderfull Yeare The Wonderfull Yeare is Thomas Dekker's first pamphlet, written and printed in 1603, the year of Queen Elizabeth's death, James I's accession, and an outbreak of the bubonic plague in England. Prior to writing ""The Wonderfull Yeare"", Dekker was a playwright in London, but upon the closing of London's theatres in 1603 due to the plague, Dekker turned to pamphleteering to generate an"
"The Wonderfull Yeare The Wonderfull Yeare is Thomas Dekker's first pamphlet, written and printed in 1603, the year of Queen Elizabeth's death, James I's accession, and an outbreak of the bubonic plague in England. Prior to writing ""The Wonderfull Yeare"", Dekker was a playwright in London, but upon the closing of London's theatres in 1603 due to the plague, Dekker turned to pamphleteering to generate an income. Dekker was just one of thousands of Londoners affected by the outbreak of plague, though he did not actually become sick. Dekker's work focuses on the ""wonderful"" events that took place in the"
"of the golden age returned in the first months of James I's rule, but when the plague struck in the summer of 1603, people were once again struck with lamentation. The remainder of The Wonderful Year recounts the horrors of the plague epidemic in 1603, both in London and the surrounding countryside. Dekker also gives the Plague a persona in order to personally blame it for the thousands of deaths that it causes, and describes how the plague cannot be avoided: it affects everyone to some extent and takes its victims without warning. Dekker comments on how the number of"
"quatrain. Rather than write in the heroic couplets found in his earlier works, Dryden used the decasyllabic quatrain exemplified in Sir John Davies' poem ""Nosce Teipsum"" in 1599. The style was revived by William Davenant in his poem ""Gondibert"", which was published in 1651 and influenced Dryden's composition of ""Annus Mirabilis"". This particular style dictates that each quatrain should contain a full stop, which A. W. Ward believes causes the verse to become ""prosy"". Annus Mirabilis (poem) Annus Mirabilis is a poem written by John Dryden published in 1667. It commemorated 1665–1666, the ""year of miracles"" of London. Despite the"
"to describe it as a ""Second Annus Mirabilis"". Annus Mirabilis of 1759 The Annus Mirabilis of 1759 is a term used to describe a string of notable British victories over French-led opponents during the Seven Years' War. The term is taken from Latin, and is used to denote a """"year of miracles"""" or """"year of wonders"""". The war did not start well for the British; they had lost the island of Minorca, and suffered defeats in North America at the Monongahela, Fort Oswego, Fort William Henry and Fort Carillon. The British had entered 1759 anxious about a French invasion, but"
"Annus Mirabilis of 1759 The Annus Mirabilis of 1759 is a term used to describe a string of notable British victories over French-led opponents during the Seven Years' War. The term is taken from Latin, and is used to denote a """"year of miracles"""" or """"year of wonders"""". The war did not start well for the British; they had lost the island of Minorca, and suffered defeats in North America at the Monongahela, Fort Oswego, Fort William Henry and Fort Carillon. The British had entered 1759 anxious about a French invasion, but by the end of the year, they were"
"to be the miserablest creature on earth"". While the Jacobites considered her death divine retribution for breaking the fifth commandment (""honour thy father""), she was widely mourned in Britain. During a cold winter, in which the Thames froze, her embalmed body lay in state in Banqueting House, Whitehall. On 5 March, she was buried at Westminster Abbey. Her funeral service was the first of any royal attended by all the members of both Houses of Parliament. For the ceremony, composer Henry Purcell wrote ""Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary"". Mary endowed the College of William and Mary (in the"
"friendship in the months before the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. The King and Queen were received with enormous acclaim by great crowds throughout the Tour and Visit and the dignity and charm of the Queen were undoubtedly aided by her Hartnell wardrobe. Hitler termed Queen Elizabeth ""the most dangerous woman in Europe"" on viewing film footage of the successful Tour. The aura of majesty encapsulated by the Queen during the last two years of peace is poignantly captured by Cecil Beaton's 1939 photographs at Buckingham Palace in which she wears some of the Hartnell dresses made"
"Annus Mirabilis papers The ""Annus mirabilis"" papers (from Latin ""annus mīrābilis"", ""extraordinary year"") are the papers of Albert Einstein published in the ""Annalen der Physik"" scientific journal in 1905. These four articles contributed substantially to the foundation of modern physics and changed views on space, time, mass, and energy. The ""annus mirabilis"" is often called the ""miracle year"" in English or ""Wunderjahr"" in German. At the time the papers were written, Einstein did not have easy access to a complete set of scientific reference materials, although he did regularly read and contribute reviews to ""Annalen der Physik"". Additionally, scientific colleagues"
"private wealth – which were contradicted by the Palace – and reports of affairs and strained marriages among her extended family. In March, her second son, Prince Andrew, and his wife, Sarah, separated; in April, her daughter, Princess Anne, divorced Captain Mark Phillips; during a state visit to Germany in October, angry demonstrators in Dresden threw eggs at her; and, in November, a large fire broke out at Windsor Castle, one of her official residences. The monarchy came under increased criticism and public scrutiny. In an unusually personal speech, the Queen said that any institution must expect criticism, but suggested"
"holidays. In 1889, during a stay in Biarritz, she became the first reigning monarch from Britain to set foot in Spain when she crossed the border for a brief visit. By April 1900, the Boer War was so unpopular in mainland Europe that her annual trip to France seemed inadvisable. Instead, the Queen went to Ireland for the first time since 1861, in part to acknowledge the contribution of Irish regiments to the South African war. In July, her second son Alfred (""Affie"") died. ""Oh, God! My poor darling Affie gone too"", she wrote in her journal. ""It is a"
"a ""settled and unremovable melancholy"", and sat motionless on a cushion for hours on end. When Robert Cecil told her that she must go to bed, she snapped: ""Must is not a word to use to princes, little man."" She died on 24 March 1603 at Richmond Palace, between two and three in the morning. A few hours later, Cecil and the council set their plans in motion and proclaimed James King of England. While it has become normative to record the death of the Queen as occurring in 1603, following English calendar reform in the 1750s, at the time"
"Ominous Decade The Ominous Decade (Castilian: ""Década Ominosa"") is a traditional term for the last ten years of the reign of King Ferdinand VII of Spain, dating from the abolition of the Spanish Constitution of 1812, on 1 October 1823, to his death on 29 September 1833. Ferdinand VII had become king after the victorious end of the Peninsular War, by which Spain was freed from Napoleonic domination. He returned to Spain on 24 March 1814 and his first act was the abolition of the 1812 liberal constitution; this was followed by the dissolution of the two chambers of the"
"1861 just two weeks after the visit. Queen Victoria was inconsolable, wore mourning clothes for the rest of her life and blamed Edward for his father's death. At first, she regarded her son with distaste as frivolous, indiscreet and irresponsible. She wrote to her eldest daughter, ""I never can, or shall, look at him without a shudder."" Once widowed, Queen Victoria effectively withdrew from public life. Shortly after Prince Albert's death, the queen arranged for Edward to embark on an extensive tour of the Middle East, visiting Egypt, Jerusalem, Damascus, Beirut and Constantinople. The British Government wanted Edward to secure"
"1821 at the age of 53. Her physicians thought she had an intestinal obstruction, but she may have had cancer, and there were rumours at the time that she had been poisoned. Afraid that a procession of the funeral bier through London could spark public unrest, Lord Liverpool decided the Queen's cortège would avoid the city, passing to the north on the way to Harwich and Brunswick. The crowd accompanying the procession was incensed and blocked the intended route with barricades to force a new route through Westminster and London. The scene soon descended into chaos; the soldiers forming the"
"greatest contempt for you both in this House and out of it"". On 28 June 1838, the infirm Lord Rolle attended the coronation of Queen Victoria. What happened was later described by the Queen in her diary: Poor old Lord Rolle, who is 82 (""sic"") and dreadfully infirm, in attempting to ascend the steps fell and rolled quite down, but was not the least hurt; when he attempted to re-ascend them I got up and advanced to the end of the steps in order to prevent another fall. The diarist Charles Greville, who was present at the coronation, described the"
"Prince William to flood damaged areas of Queensland and Victoria. In October 2011, Queen Elizabeth II visited Australia in her role as Queen of Australia and Head of the Commonwealth. At a reception in her honour held at Parliament House in Canberra on 21 October 2011, the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, described the Queen as ""a vital constitutional part of Australian democracy"". The Queen in her speech at the same reception stated that, ""It has been a difficult year for this country in many ways despite the successes. The world witnessed the anguish of Australians as they lived through a"
"of God — with sword, famine, pestilence and wild beasts. The deadly pale and livid appearance displays a hue symptomatic of approaching empire dissolution. According to Edward Bishop Elliott, an era in Roman history commencing within about 15 years after the death of Severus Alexander (in 235 AD<ref name=""Encyclopædia Britannica/Alexander Severus""></ref>) strongly marks every point of this terrible emblem. Edward Gibbon speaks of a period from the celebration of the great secular games by the Emperor Philip to the death of Gallienus (in 268 AD<ref name=""Encyclopædia Britannica/Gallienus""></ref>) as the 20 years of shame and misfortune, of confusion and calamity, as"
"New Year’s Eve speeches in 1946 and 1950. After the war, Crown Princess Märtha suffered from poor health. Following a lengthy period of ill-health, Märtha died of cancer at The National Hospital in Oslo in 5 April 1954. At the time of her death her elder daughter Ragnhild was expecting her first child. Her death came little more than three years before her husband ascended the throne as king. Her death was a tremendous loss for the future king Olav and the children as well as for Norway. A 970,000 km² area in Antarctica is named Princess Martha Coast in"
"was going to be printed, the news caused an uproar. Queen Victoria wrote that she was """"horrified"" and ""indignant"" at this dreadful and really scandalous book. Mr Greville's indiscretion, indelicacy, ingratitude, betrayal of confidence and shameful disloyalty towards his Sovereign make it ""very important"" that the book should be severely censored and discredited"". She also said that ""The tone in which he speaks of royalty is unlike anything which one sees in history, even of people hundreds of years ago, and is most reprehensible...Of George IV he speaks in such shocking language, language not fit for any gentleman to use""."
"L'Année terrible L'Année terrible is a series of poems written by Victor Hugo and published in 1872. They deal with the Franco-Prussian War, the trauma of losing his son Charles, and with the Paris Commune. Covering the period from August 1870 to July 1871, a group of poems encapsulates each month, blending Hugo's anguish over personal tragedies with his despair at the predicament of France. ""J'entreprends de conter l'année épouvantable,""<br> ""Et voilà que j'hésite, accoudé sur ma table."" <br> ""Faut-il aller plus loin ? dois-je continuer ?"" <br> ""France ! ô deuil ! voir un astre aux cieux diminuer !"""
"explain his thoughts on literary theory. While Hobbes praised Davenant's intention to write a poem of the scope of ""Gondibert"", the work was never completed, and Davenant's most significant contribution to the development of the form came from his influence on Dryden, who would prove to be the decasyllabic quatrain's most prominent practitioner. When Dryden published Annus Mirabilis in 1667, the form he used for the long poem was that of the decasyllabic quatrain. The poem achieved prominence quickly, as it discussed the year of 1666, during which many disasters had plagued the people of England. The poem contained 1216"
"war she was awarded the title Righteous Among the Nations by the Israeli government. During the 1950s, the Queen evoked controversy abroad by visiting the Soviet Union, China and Poland, trips that prompted some to label her as the ""Red Queen ."" Queen Elisabeth died in Brussels at the age of 89 on 23 November 1965 from a heart attack. She is interred in the royal vault at the Church of Our Lady of Laeken, Brussels. She was the 1,016th Dame of the Royal Order of Queen Maria Luisa. The city of Lubumbashi in Congo (Kinshasa) was formerly known as"
"my thanks cannot be lacking for the same, but yield them to you in grateful sort"". In historian J. E. Neale's view, Elizabeth may not have declared her wishes openly to James, but she made them known with ""unmistakable if veiled phrases"". The Queen's health remained fair until the autumn of 1602, when a series of deaths among her friends plunged her into a severe depression. In February 1603, the death of Catherine Carey, Countess of Nottingham, the niece of her cousin and close friend Lady Knollys, came as a particular blow. In March, Elizabeth fell sick and remained in"
"Year of Wonders Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague is a 2001 international bestselling historical fiction novel by Geraldine Brooks. It was chosen as both a ""New York Times"" and ""Washington Post"" Notable Book. The novel is written in the point of view of a housemaid named Anna Frith, on what she lives through when the plague hits her village. It is based on the history of the small Derbyshire village of Eyam that, when beset upon by the plague in 1666, quarantines itself in order to prevent the disease from spreading further. The Plague that hit Eyam"
"public. Pompey filled the city with soldiers, a move which intimidated the triumvirate's opponents. Bibulus attempted to declare the omens unfavourable and thus void the new law, but he was driven from the forum by Caesar's armed supporters. His lictors had their fasces broken, two high magistrates accompanying him were wounded, and he had a bucket of excrement thrown over him. In fear of his life, he retired to his house for the rest of the year, issuing occasional proclamations of bad omens. These attempts proved ineffective in obstructing Caesar's legislation. Roman satirists ever after referred to the year as"