Historical Events

Battle of Shrewsbury

1403 Battle of Shrewsbury: Army led by the Lancastrian King of England, Henry IV defeats a rebel army led by Henry "Harry Hotspur" Percy of Northumberland thus ending the Percy challenge to the throne. Also the first battle English archers fought each other on English soil.

Arrest of John Dudley

1553 John Dudley, Lord President of the Council under Edward VI , captured in Cambridge

1588 First engagement between the English fleet and the Spanish Armada off the Eddystone Rocks

Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina

1669 John Locke 's Constitution of English colony Carolina is approved

1846 Mormons found 1st English settlement in California (San Joaquin Valley)

Wimbledon Women's Championship

1888 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Lottie Dod

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