When Francis Randolph Hancock was born on 12 December 1894, in Pinxton, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, George Hancock, was 56 and his mother, Maria Moore, was 40. He lived in Skegby, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom in 1911. He died on 14 June 1918, in Pas-de-Calais, France, at the age of 23, and was buried in Sandpits British Cemetery, Fouquereuil, Pas-de-Calais, France.
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Paris, France hosts Summer Olympic Games.
The Entente Cordiale was signed between Britain and France on April 8, 1904, to reconcile imperial interests and pave the way for future diplomatic cooperation. This ended hundreds of years of conflict between the two states.
In December of 1905 a law was passed that separated church and state. It made it so that prayer could not be said before a parliamentary meeting or in schools. It also made it so that working on Sunday was legalized.
English: from the Middle English personal name Hann + the hypocoristic suffix -cok, which was commonly added to personal names (see Cocke ).
Dutch: from Middle Dutch hanecoc ‘winkle, periwinkle’ (a type of shellfish), probably a metonymic occupational name for someone who gathered and sold shellfish.
History: Thomas Hancock, the uncle of Declaration of Independence signatory John Hancock (1736/7–93), was among the foremost of 18th-century American businessmen. He was a descendant of Nathaniel Hancock, who was known to have been in Cambridge, MA, as early as 1634. Born in Braintree, MA, John Hancock was president of the Second Continental Congress and the first governor of the state of MA.
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