on this day 07/09

#OTD in 1695 – Henry Every perpetrates one of the most profitable pirate raids in history after capturing the Grand Mughal ship Ganj-i-Sawai
 (via Hull museums +Hull City Council )

On this day 31/August

#OTD in 1897 – Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector. (source +Hull City Council / Hull Museums )

On this day in history

6th August

1971: Sailor's record 'wrong way' voyage A British man becomes the first to sail the world non-stop in the "wrong" direction - east to west - against the prevailing winds and currents.

1961: Russian cosmonaut spends day in space The Soviet Union astonishes the world by launching Major Gherman Titov into orbit for a whole day.

source ( +BBC News website)

1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair ( via hull museums +Hull City Council _)

Who am I ?

I am a Famous and historical Spanish women , Due to 2 marriages I had Henry the 7th of England as my Father in law twice ?

On this day in History 12 June

Event of Interest

1442 King (Rey) Alfonso V of Aragon occupies Naples

Born in 1396 died 27 June ( Junio ) 1458 so he was either 61 or 62

(The Aragon Region of Spain ( on the Road (modern Spain) the Autovia A23 / Autovia mudecar you will find a statue of St George slaying the Dragon as he is also patron Saint of this region of Spain ) (Which once was an independent Kingdom and Even supplied England a Queen Catharine of Aragon who married first Philip Tudor (Henry the 8ths Brother ) who died before ever taking the English throne and of course married Henry the 8th as his first of 6 wife's ( the one he divorced ) and mother to an English Queen Mary Tudor some times know as bloody Mary (and she is not the same lady as Mary queen of Scots they where cousins )  

Some Facts about Spain

Here at European relocation services we are based near Albox in the Almeria Region here are some facts and interesting trivia from the area around us

1 The 2nd largest Geode in the world can be found near Pulpi

 
2 (Spain in general) Spain has the 2nd largest high speed rail network in the World Second only to China

3 Their is a 24 hour long  indoor football  tournament in august in the Town of Albox
4 With Fortified towns , watch towers , castles (Castillo) and the likes there are just shy of 3000 castle in Spain

5 Spain Is home to the worlds oldest operational lighthouse built about 1900 years ago by the Romans

Called the tower of Hercules in la  Coruña

Circa 90 ad

6 Spain is the second most mountainous country in Europe only Switzerland is more mountainous

7 Spain is one of Europe's largest producers of olive oil

8 The only Spanish province which is both on the Mediterranean and the Atlantic is Andalusia

9 The Spanish navy is one of the oldest navies in the world and the 4th Biggest

10 The European Rabbit is naturally native to Spain and Portugal ( the Iberian peninsula ) but is found thought out Europe and was introduced to England by the Romans

11 Olives are not native to the Americas. Spanish colonists brought the olive to the New World (via Wikipedia ) (We have an olive tree in our Garden here at European relocation services )

12 Albox name comes from Arabic and means Tower

13 There are about 1700 types of Spiders in Spain 

14 There are 13 types of Snakes in Spain of which 5 are poisonous

15 Spain's boarder with Portugal is  1,224 km long

16 And Spain's boarder with Andorra is 63km

17 And the Boarder it shares with France is 646km

18 Spain is home to Wolfs in the Shape of the Iberian wolf which has an estimated population of only 2000 in both Spain and Portugal

19  This is called the Osburne bull there are about 97 of them in Spain originally erected in 1956, by the Osburne Sherry company