Historical place archive

Windsor Castle in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Windsor Castle in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

2 records2 event labels2 people1837–1865

Historical events in Windsor Castle

1837

21 June 1837
Death of William IV
William IV · House of Hanover

Death of William IV, of pneumonia & cirrhosis of the liver. Death of William IV, last of the Hanoverian Dynasty

1865

16 February 1865
Fire
Victoria · House of Saxe-Coburg

Fire breaks causing considerable damage, the cause is never discovered

Provenance

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