Historical Events

1355 English invasion army under King Edward lands at Calais

1698 Scottish settlers make landfall in Panama, establishing the ill-fated 'Darien Venture' colony

1749 English Ohio Trade Company forms first trading post

1772 Boston: anti-English Committee of Correspondence forms

1899 Boers begin siege of Ladysmith, Natal

1903 British newspaper "Daily Mirror" begins publishing

1914 Great Britain annexes Cyprus

1914 Great Britain declares the entire North Sea a military area: neutral ships will transit it at their own risk

Balfour Declaration

1917 British government proclaims support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine in the Balfour Declaration

1924 Sunday Express publishes first British crossword puzzle

1942 11th day of battle at El Alamein: British as

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