Historical Events

Defiance in the Hundred Years' War

1415 Henry V of England and an army of 12,000 sail from Southampton, England, bound for France on a campaign to reassert English sovereignty [1]

1597 Germany expels English salespeople

1695 English and Dutch fleets capture Dunkirk

1718 Battle of Cape Passaro: British fleet destroys Spanish off Sicily

1786 Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia

1835 George B. Airy begins a 46-year tenure as England's Astronomer Royal

Royals Meet over Navy

1908 King Edward VII of Britain meets with Emperor Wilhelm of Friedrichshof, Germany; the main point of contention is the increasing size of Germany's navy

1940 38 German aircraft are shot down over England

1940 German air raid on the British p

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