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Admiral Rodney victory 1782 over the French fleet in the West Indies
Arrival of the first Russian ambassador to England
Attempted assassination of French king, Louis Philippe
Assassination of Emperor Domitian
Assassination of King Edward
Assassination of Mr. Spencer Percival
Assassination of Mr. Thynne in Pall Mall
Attempted assassination of Louis XV
B
Battle between the H.M.S. Serapis and USS Bon Homme Richard
Battle of Azincourt
Battle of Boarstall House
Battle of Bosworth
Battle of Bunker Hill
Battle of Crecy
Battle of Corunna
Battle of Culloden
Battle of Edgehill
Battle of Flodden
Battle of Halidon Hill
Battle of Hastings
Battle of Morat
Battle of Otterbourne
Battle of Plassey
Battle of Poitiers
Battle of Seringapatam
Battle of St. Albans
Battle of Stoke
Battle of the Boyne
Battle of Waterloo
Battle of Zutphen
- 1585
Battles in Germany to end the 30 years war
Burning of Milton's Books by the Hangman
Burning of the Sarah Sands
Burning of the Tower of London in 1841
C
Canonization of the Japanese martyrs
Capture of Granada in 1492 from the Moors
Cato Street Conspiracy
Coronation of Charles I at Scone, 1651
Council of Trent
Creation of the Free Church of Scotland in 1843
Creation of the Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
Cromwell's dissolution op the rump parliament
D
Death and funeral of a squaw in London
Death of General Wolfe
Death of Louis XIV
Death of Queen Elizabeth
Death of Princess Charlotte in 1817
Destruction of the Bastille
Determination of the circumference of the Earth
Disappearance of Don Sebastian of Portugal
Discovery of America by Columbus
Discovery of the Planetoids
Discovery of the plant Uranus
Discovery of the sources of the Nile
Doubling of the Cape of Good Hope by Vasco da Game
Duel between the Duke of Hamilton and Lord Mohun
E
Earthquakes in England
The great 1382 Earthquake
Earthquake in Lisbon in 1755
Earthquake in Scotland
Edict of Nantes
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
Emancipation of British slaves
English Civil War -
The Beginning
Suppression of stage-plays in 1642
Escape of Louis Philippe to England, 1848
Execution of Admiral Byng
Execution of John of Leyden, 'The Prophet' 1536
Execution of Mary, Queen of the Scotts
Execution of Charles I
Execution of the rebellious Lords of 1746
Expulsion of the Jews from England
Extraordinary Light
F
Fire:
Great London fire of 1666
First balloon ascents in Britain
First daily newspaper in England
First Dismemberment of Poland
First British Steam Boat Passage
First Locomotive in the Britannia Tube
Founding of Greenwich observatory
Freezing of the Thames
Funeral of Queen Caroline
G
Gunpowder Plot
H
Halley's Comet of 1682
I
Imprisonment of Louis XI by the Duke of Burgundy in 1468
Introduction of Coffee in Europe
Introduction of inoculation against small-pox
Introduction of tea to England
Introduction of the Silk Manufactures into Europe
Invasion of Wales by France in 1797
Invasion of England by the French in 1744
Irish massacre of 1641
J
Jansenist schism
L
Landing of Caesar in Britain
Landing of George I in England
Landing of the Prince of Orange at Torbay in 1688
Last 'State Lottery' drawn in England
Laying of the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic
London fire of 1666
Loss of the 'Royal George'
M
Massacre of children in Bethlehem by Herod's
March of General Monk from Coldstream
Murder of David Rizzio, the Italian secretary of Mary of Scotland
Murder of John and Cornelius de Witt- eminent Dutch statesmen
Murder of Thomas Becket - Archbishop of Canterbury
Murder of Thomas Overbury
Marriage of Louis XII and the Princess Mary
Mutinies of 1797
Mutiny of the Black Watch regiment
N
Newspapers:
The first newspaper printed by steam
New Years - Changing of the official date that the new year begins on
O
0. P. Riots of 1808
Opening of the first Royal Exchange
Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester railway
Outbreak of the sweating sickness in 1485
P
Paschal controversy - Early church discussion as to when Easter should fall
Persecution of Irish under Queen Mary - Reason for Failure
Peter the Greats visit to England
Plague of London - 1665
Poland's first dismemberment in 1772
Popish plot of 1678
Pretended murders of Christian children by the Jews
Q
Queen Elizabeth I address to the solders at Fort Tillbury
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Railroad:
The great railway mania day of 1845
Raising of the Siege of Vienna, September 12, 1683
Reform act of 1831-2
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
Revolution of 1399
Revolution of 1688
Riots of knitters in Nottinghamshire in 1811
Roman Conquest of Scotland
S
Sicilian Vespers of 1282
Siege & surrender of Hume Castle
South Sea Financial Bubble
Storm: The great storm of 27
th
November 1703
St. Bartholomew Massacre
Stratford Jubilee
Suspension of cash payments by the Bank of England - 1797
Suppression of the Order of the Knights Templars, March 22, 1312
Suppression of stage-plays in 1642
T
The 10
th
of August 1792 - the abolition of the ancient monarchy of France
The 1778 festival held in Philadelphia in honor of General Howe
The battle of Crecy
The battle of Otterbourne
The battle of Plassey
The battle of Stoke
The Bartholomew Act, 1662
The English retreat from Cabul, 1842
The first parliament
The Gunpowder Plot
The last of the Arctic Voyagers
The loss and re-discovery of HMS Resolute
The Mississippi Scheme
The 0. P. Riots of 1808
The Retreat from Caubul, 1842
The Sicilian insurrection of 1282
The South Sea financial bubble
The 'Tenth of April' demonstration for political reform in London, 1818
Treaty of Limerick
U
Union of Ireland with Great Britain, 1801
W
War of the Roses
Wat Tyler's rebellion ~ 1380
Weather
Great frosts of history
Severe Christmas of 1860: intense cold and its effects
The Coldest Day in the 19
th
century
William Penn and the founding of Pennsylvania
