Historical Events

Conference of Interest

1051 Conference at Gloucester between English King Edward the Confessor and his adversary, the Earl of Godwine; Godwine later goes into exile temporarily

Battle of Arsuf

1191 Third Crusade: Richard I of England defeats Saladin in the Battle of Arsuf

1497 Flemish pretender Perkin Warbeck is acclaimed as English King Richard IV on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall

1701 Germany, England, and the Netherlands sign an anti-French covenant

1871 Bay of Biscay: British warship HMS Captain capsizes, 500 are killed

1891 Forces of British administrator Captain Frederick Lugard reach Kavalli, Equatoria

1904 British forces in Tibet force the 13th Dalai Lama to sign a treaty granting Britain trading posts in Tibet and guaranteeing that Tibet will not c

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