Portsmouth: Timeline

1194   City of Portsmouth awarded its Royal Charter Royal Charter

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1760   The dockyards of Portsmouth catch fire.

1787   Captain Arthur Phillip Arthur Phillip

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 leaves Portsmouth, England England

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 with eleven ships full of convicts to establish a penal colony in Australia Australia

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1872   HMS Challenger sails from Portsmouth on the 4 year scientific expedition that would lay the foundation for the science of oceanography

1956   British diver Lionel Crabb dives into the Portsmouth harbor to investigate visiting Soviet cruiser and vanishes.

1968   Yachtsman Alec Rose, 59, receives a hero's welcome as he sailed into Portsmouth after his 354-day round-the-world trip.

1982   HMS ''Hermes'', the Royal Navy Royal Navy

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 flagship during the Falklands War Falklands War

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, returns home to Portsmouth to a hero's welcome.