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Boston Massacre. The Boston Massacre (known in Great Britain as the Incident on King Street) [1] was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which nine British soldiers shot several of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles. The event was heavily publicized as "a massacre" by ...
363 – Roman emperor Julian leaves Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sasanian Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death. [1]1046 – Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama.
Date ended. John Campbell, 3rd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland. 26 January 1782 (aged 85) Last Founder Knight of the Order of the Bath. 17 June 1725. John Fortescue [8][9] 9 May 1808 (aged 87) Last sailor who took part in George Anson's voyage around the world. 15 June 1744.
The Jacobite rising of 1745 [a] was an attempt by Charles Edward Stuart to regain the British throne for his father, James Francis Edward Stuart.It took place during the War of the Austrian Succession, when the bulk of the British Army was fighting in mainland Europe, and proved to be the last in a series of revolts that began in March 1689, with major outbreaks in 1715 and 1719.
Location of major events during the Norman Conquest in 1066. The Norman Conquest (or the Conquest) was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army made up of thousands of Norman, French, Flemish, and Breton troops, all led by the Duke of Normandy, later styled William the Conqueror. William's claim to the English throne ...
The Black Death arrived in England. 1356: 19 September: Battle of Poitiers: Second of the three major battles of the Hundred Years' War took place near Poitiers, France. 1367 6 January Richard II, the future king of England (r. 1377-1399), is born to parents Edward the Black Prince and Joan of Kent. 1367 April
Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) [a] was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. She was the last monarch of the House of Tudor. Elizabeth was the only surviving child of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn.
England, which had subsumed Wales in the 16th century under Henry VIII, united with Scotland in 1707 to form a new sovereign state called Great Britain. [ 8 ][ 9 ][ 10 ] Following the Industrial Revolution, which started in England, Great Britain ruled a colonial Empire, the largest in recorded history.