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On this day: 18 September. 1931 18 Sep A railway explosion is faked by the Japanese as a pretext for the invasion of Manchuria, China. 1942 18 Sep Nazi minister of justice Otto Thierack agrees to.
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22 Oct, 2014. 1. One of the worst maritime disasters in British history happened off the Isles of Scilly on this day in history, 22 October 1707. (O.S.) In the summer or 1707, Commander-in-Chief of the British Fleets, Sir Cloudesley Shovell, had led a fleet of 21 British ships in their Mediterranean campaign against the French as part of the.
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1741 Britain's Royal Military Academy was established at Woolwich. It is now at Sandhurst. 1742 George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah made its world-premiere, in Dublin, Ireland. 1771 Richard Trevithick, Cornish engineer was born. The son of a mining captain, he performed poorly in school, but went on to be an early pioneer in steam-powered.
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1915 Italy secretly signs the "Treaty of London" with Britain, France and Russia, bringing Italy into World War I on the Allied side; 1929 1st non-stop England to India flight lands; 1973 Galt MacDermot and John Guare's musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" opens at the Phoenix Theatre in London's West End, running for 237 performances
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On This Day - 11th August. 1332 In the Wars of Scottish Independence, at the Battle of Dupplin Moor, the Scots under Domhnall II, Earl of Mar (and Regent of Scotland for just one week) were routed by Edward Balliol, claimant to the Scottish throne. 1576 English navigator Martin Frobisher, on his search for the Northwest Passage, entered the bay.
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1554-02-09 Battle at London: Sir Thomas Wyatt defeated and his rebellion against Queen Mary crushed. 1557-02-27 Osep Gregoriwich Napea, the 1st Russian ambassador to England, arrives in London. 1568-07-13 Dean of St. Paul's London, Alexander Nowell perfects a way to bottle beer.
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On This Day - 5th April. 1811 The death of Robert Raikes ("the Younger"). He was an English philanthropist and Anglican layman, noted for his promotion of Sunday schools. They pre-dated state schooling and by 1831 they schooled 1,250,000 children. His Sunday Schools were seen as the first precursor schools of the English state school system.
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On This Day - 4th January. 871 The Battle of Reading took place, in the county of Berkshire. It followed an invasion of the then kingdom of Wessex by an army of Danes. The Saxon forces retreated, allowing the Danes to continue their advance into Wessex. Much of King Alfred's 28-year reign was taken up with this Danish conflict.
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1660-04-25 English Convention Parliament meets and votes to restore Charles II. 1660-05-08 English Parliament proclaims Charles II, King of England and invites him to return. 1660-05-29 On his 30th birthday Charles II returns to London from exile in the Netherlands to claim the English throne after the Puritan Commonwealth comes to an end.
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On This Day - 26th November. 1645 English Civil War - The third siege of Newark, which lasted from 26th November 1645 to 8th May 1646. Newark was important to both sides, as two important roads ran through the town - the Great North Way and Fosse Way. Newark castle (see picture) was deliberately destroyed as a fortress in 1648.
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1901-09-26 Great Britain annexes the Ashanti Kingdom and places it under the governor of the Gold Coast (Ghana); 1902-01-30 Britain and Japan sign a treaty after months of negotiating which commits each country to supporting an independent China and Korea, although it acknowledges Japan's 'special interest' in Korea; 1902-05-31 Boer War Ends; Treaty of Unity signed, Britain annexes Transvaal
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On This Day - 24th March. 1603 After 44 years of rule, Queen Elizabeth I of England died. The English and Scottish crowns were united when James VI of Scotland became King James 1st of England. 1707 The Acts of Union 1707 was signed, officially uniting the Kingdoms of England and Scotland to create the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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On This Day - 25th April. 1284 The birth, at Caernarfon Castle (see picture) , of King Edward II, who became the first heir-apparent to bear the title Prince of Wales. King from 1307, he ruled during a period of pestilence, famine and defeats at the hands of the Scots, and was eventually murdered. 1599 The birth of Oliver Cromwell, Protector of.
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