The purpose of the DeKalb County Historical Society is to study, preserve and record our heritage. By the end of 1969, 167 members from many areas of the United States had joined the Society. Native Americans were here first..Next came fur traders and trail blazers, settlers followed.
King Henry III of France was assassinated in the siege by Jacques ClÃ©ment. On August 1, 1589, Henry III, lodged with his army in Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine, prepared to attack Paris when a young fanatical Dominican friar named Jacques ClÃ©ment, carrying false papers, was granted access to deliver important documents to the King.
King Henry VIII died on January 28, 1547, at the age of fifty-five, after a reign of thirty-seven years. He was succeeded on the throne by his nine-year-old son as Edward VI. Edward Seymour was given the responsibility of protector of the realm during the royal minority of his nephew.