Historical Events

1453 Battle of Castillon: French army beats English force under John Talbot, turning point of the Hundred Years' War

Babington Plot

1585 English secret service discovers Anthony Babington's plot to murder plot Queen Elizabeth I

Walter Raleigh Arrested

1603 English explorer Walter Raleigh is arrested by forces of King James I of England

1712 Great Britain, Portugal and France sign ceasefire [or 19th]

Water Music

1717 George Frideric Handel 's "Water Music" premieres repeatedly on a barge cruising the River Thames in London

Cook Arrives in Vanuatu

1774 Captain James Cook arrives in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu)

A Voyage to Terra Australis

1814 Matthew Flinders publishes "A Voyage to Terra Australis," detailing his circumnavigation of Australia, an

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