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| + | Winning the lottery has a long and ancient history. The word " | ||
| + | Lotteries have an ancient, venerable and somewhat checkered history. There are lots of biblical references to the drawing of lots to award ownership and in the Book of Numbers, Chapter 26, Moses uses a lottery to award land west of the River Jordan. In the New Testament, Roman soldiers drew lots to decide who would get Jesus' cloak after the crucifixion. | ||
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| + | The very first recorded European lottery was held in 1446 through the widow of the Flemish painter Jan Van Eyck to dispose of his remaining paintings. Winning this lottery might have given you a prize worth mega millions today! | ||
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| + | Encyclopedia Britannica presents the fact that the lottery since we know it dates back to 15th century France where it was used by individual towns to raise money for strengthening the town's defenses (Europe has a robust tradition of citizens considering themselves as belonging to a town rather than a state and even a country, as an example, a citizen would think of him or herself as a Roman, rather than an Italian.) King Francis I of France allowed lotteries to operate from 1520, and also the first municipal lottery to offer money as a prize was La Lotto de Firenze, run by the city of Florence in 1530. Other metropolitan areas in Italy soon followed suit. | ||
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| + | In 1567, Queen Elizabeth I established the very first English state lottery, with prizes including cash, gold and silver plate, and tapestries. 400,000 tickets were offered for sale. For [[https:// | ||
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| + | In 1612, King James I of England created a lottery in London by royal decree. The proceeds helped to finance the first British colony in America at Jamestown, Virginia. Anglican churches held two of the three winning tickets within the first draw! | ||
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| + | In the middle 18th century, a notable event occurred in France. As a result of the possibility of fixing the end result in privately operated lotteries, Giacomo Girolamo Casanova (1725 - 1798) persuaded Louis XV of France to found the very first state-owned monopoly lottery, the Loterie Royale of the armed service School, which became the forerunner of the Loterie Nationale. All the other lotteries in France were outlawed. The lottery was a Keno style game, where players could select 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 numbers between 1 and 90. (Incidentally, | ||
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| + | Within the 18th century, lotteries were well under way in America, primarily to fund some venture or as a way out of debt. The very first began in Massachusetts in 1744 as a result of military debts. The very first national lottery was started by the Continental Congress in 1776 to raise funds for the American Revolution. The Founding Fathers were concerned not so much with how you can win the lottery but with how exactly to raise funds using lotteries. Many of the Founding Fathers played and sponsored lotteries: | ||
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