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1429 Battle of Rouvray (or "of the Herrings"). English
Forces under Sir John Fastolf
defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army of William de la Pole, 4th Earl of Suffolk
at Orléans
from attack by the Comte de Clermont
and John Stuart.
1429 Battle of Patay: French
forces under Joan of Arc
smash the English
forces under Lord Talbot
and Sir John Fastolf
, forcing the withdrawal of the English
from the Loire Valley.
1450 Battle of Formigny: French
troops under the Comte de Clermont defeat an English army under Sir Thomas Kyriel and Sir Matthew Gough which was attempting to relieve Caen
.
1450 Battle of Formigny: French
troops under the Comte de Clermont defeat an English army under Sir Thomas Kyriel and Sir Matthew Gough which was attempting to relieve Caen
.
1535 Sir Thomas More
, author of Utopia and one time Lord Chancellor
of England
, is executed for treason by King Henry VIII
after refusing to agree to Henrys' decision to separate the English church from the Roman Catholic church
.
1580 Sir Francis Drake
circumnavigated the globe.
1586 St. Augustine, Florida, and Santo Domingo
in the modern day Dominican Republic
are plundered and burned by English
sea captain Sir Francis Drake
.
1632 Sir Francis Windebank
made chief Secretary of State
in England
.
1660 At Gresham College, 12 men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle
, John Wilkins
, and Sir Robert Moray meet after a lecture by Wren and decide to found "a College for the Promoting of Physico-Mathematicall Experimentall Learning}" (later known as the Royal Society
).
1704 British
forces under Sir George Rooke capture Gibraltar
.
1777 American Revolutionary War
: Battle of Germantown - Troops under George Washington
are repelled by British
troops under Sir William Howe.
1818 Lord Hastings, governor-general of India
, gives approval to Sir Stamford Raffles to establish trading station at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula (modern-day Singapore
).
1854 Royal Navy
fleet sails from Britain
under Vice Admiral Sir Charles Napier.
1917 Sir Thomas Whyte introduces the first income tax
in Canada
as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
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