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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1636/00/00 Peter Paul Rubens Artist "The Apotheosis of James I" by Peter Paul Rubens is installed in the central panel of the Banqueting House ceiling in the Palace of Whitehall. The Apotheosis of James I
1660/06/23 Samuel Pepys Witness Pepys diary: there staid to see the King touch people for the King's evil. But he did not come at all, it rayned so - and the poor people were forced to stand all the morning in the rain in the garden. Afterward he touched them in the Banquetting-house. The Diary of Samuel Pepys
1673/00/00 Henry Purcell Work Henry Purcell is appointed "keeper, mender, maker, repairer and tuner of the regals, organs, virginals" to His Majesty. Purcell is to care for the instruments at Whitehall and in the Royal Household. King Charles II's Virginal

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Particulars for Banqueting House, London:
Area of Significance Architecture
Historic use Banqueting Hall

Data
English National Heritage List: 1357353



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