↳ 05 November 1605 AD - The Gunpowder Plot is foiled and Guy Fawkes is arrested.
So we’re just supposed to row 36 barrels of gunpowder down the Thames, sneak it into this rented cellar, wait for Parliament to open, then I creep back in, light the fuse, run away and blow up the King, and all without getting caught?
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↳ 29 December 1170 AD - Thomas Becket is murdered at Canterbury Cathedral.
↳ 08 April 1795 CE - King George IV (then Prince of Wales) marries Princess Caroline of Brunswick.
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So we’re just supposed to row 36 barrels of gunpowder down the Thames, sneak it into this rented cellar, wait for Parliament to open, then I creep back in, light the fuse, run away and blow up the King, and all without getting caught?
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↳ 05 November 1605 AD - The Gunpowder Plot is foiled and Guy Fawkes is arrested.
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↳ 21 October 1805 AD - A British fleet under Admiral Lord Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar. Nelson is shot in the shoulder and chest by a French sniper, he is taken below and dies about 30 minutes before the end of the battle.
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↳ 16 September 1400 AD - Owain Glyndŵr instigates the Welsh Revolt against the rule of Henry IV of England. A group of Glyndŵr’s supporters proclaim him Prince of Wales at Glyndyfrdwy. Although initially successful, the uprising is eventually put down.
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I am William Wallace my life was a mystery!
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↳ 11 September 1297 AD - Battle of Stirling Bridge: A Scottish army led by Andrew de Moray and William Wallace defeats the combined English forces of John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey, and Hugh de Cressingham near Stirling, on the River Forth.
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↳ 10 June 1338 AD - William Montagu, Earl of Salisbury withdraws his army after unsuccessfully besieging Dunbar Castle for five months, leaving it in the sole possession of Lady Agnes Randolph “Black Agnes”. Black Agnes is commemorated in a ballad which attributes these words to Montagu:-
“She kept a stir in tower and trench, That brawling, boisterous Scottish wench, Came I early, came I late I found Agnes at the gate.”
Today in 1660: Charles II is restored to the throne. Also Charles II’s 30th birthday, Charles rode into London on 29 May 1660, reclaiming the throne and restoring the monarchy. This followed almost a decade of republican rule, led by Oliver Cromwell, who died in 1658.
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↳ 19 May 1536 AD - Anne Boleyn is executed.
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↳ 09 May 1671 AD - Colonel Thomas Blood attempts to steal the Crown Jewels and is subsequently pardoned by Charles II.
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↳ 23/24 April 1942 - Germany begins the ‘Baedeker Blitz’ on British cultural targets, in retaliation for the bombing of Lübeck.