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The natives and inhabitants of England, part of Britain, as well as their descendants, culture, and language. The English have a mixed cultural heritage combining Celtic, Anglo‐Saxon, Norman, and Scandinavian elements.


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11 July 1915

British battleship HMS Formidable is torpedoed by the German submarine U-24 in the English Channel killing 547 men.

3 January 1958

Sir Edmund Hilary leads a New Zealand party to the South Pole - the first men to reach the pole overland since the ill-fated expedition led by Englishman Captain Scott.

4 January 1642
Under the orders of King Charles I, armed soldiers enter Parliament. The English Civil War started shortly afterwards.
6 January 1540
English King Henry VIII marries his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
7 January 1785
Travelling in an air balloon, Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries become the first ever people to cross the English Channel by air.
17 January 1912
English explorer Robert Falcon Scott (Scott of the Antarctic) reaches the South Pole, one month behind Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen.
20 January 1265
First meeting of the English Parliament at Westminster Hall, London.
25 January 1327

Edward III accedes to the English throne.

8 February 1622
King James I of England disbands the English Parliament.
11 February 1942
World War II: The German battleships Gneisenau and Scharnhorst and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen escape from the French port of Brest through the English Channel to safety.
18 March 1967
The oil tanker, Torrey Cannon, runs aground between Land's End and the Scilly Isles, spilling gallons of crude oil into the English Channel.
20 March 1413
Henry V ascends to the English throne.
22 March 1622
In America, 347 English settlers in Jamestown, Virginia are killed by Algonquian Indians in what is known as the Jamestown massacre.
23 March 1708
James Francis Edward Stuart, pretender to the English and Scottish throne, attempts but fails to land at the Firth of Forth, Scotland.
5 April 1614
In America, Pocahontas, daughter of the chief of the Powhatan Indian confederacy, marries English tobacco planter John Rolfe.
15 April 1755
Samuel Johnson's, A Dictionary of the English Language, is published in London, England.
20 April 1657

The Spanish Fleet is destroyed in the Battle of Santa Cruz by an English Fleet commanded by Admiral Blake.

25 April 1983
In Germany, the magazine Stern publishes extracts from what its claims to be the diaries of Adolf Hitler. Extracts are also published in English newspaper, the Sunday Times. The diaries are later discovered to have been fakes.
26 April 1607
Captain John Smith lands at Cape Henry, in Virginia with the first group of colonists who establish a permanent English settlement in America.
27 April 1296
The Scots are defeated by the English army of Edward I at the Battle of Dunbar.
30 April 1952
Anne Frank’s dairies are published in English for the first time.
6 May 1994
French President Francois Mitterrand and Queen Elizabeth II jointly open the Channel Tunnel linking Britain and France underneath the English Channel.
7 May 2006
In the English Premier League, Arsenal Football club play their last game at their Highbury ground.
13 May 1607
Captain John Smith lands on the coast of Virginia and begins the first permanent English settlement in the New World calling it Jamestown.
14 May 1264
English barons commanded by Simon de Montfort defeat the forces of Henry III at the Battle of Lewes, leaving de Montfort as the de facto ruler of the country.
23 May 1430
In France, Joan of Arc is captured by Burgundian troops and handed over to the English.
24 May 1689
The Act of Toleration is passed by the English Parliament, granting freedom of worship to Protestant non-conformists.
25 May 1660
Under invitation by leaders of the English Commonwealth, Charles II, the exiled king of England, lands at Dover to assume the throne.
26 May 1999
Manchester United becomes the first British football club to win the European Cup for 15 years, beating Bayern Munich 2-1 in the final in Barcelona, thus completing a treble of the English Premier League and F.A. Cup.
29 May 1968
Manchester United becomes the first English football team to win the European cup beating Benfica 4 -1.
31 May 1985
Following the Heysel stadium disaster on 29th May, the Football Association bans English clubs from playing in European club competitions.
2 June 1985
European football's governing body UEFA announces an indefinite ban on English football clubs from taking part in any European competitions following the riot by Liverpool FC fans in Brussels’ Heysel stadium on 31st May, in which 39 people died.
5 June 1944
The Second World War: More than 1,000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries placed at the Normandy assault area, while 3,000 Allied ships cross the English Channel in preparation for the invasion of Normandy.
9 June 1870
English novelist, Charles Dickens, dies following a brain haemorrhage.
11 June 1837
In America, English and Irish residents of Boston clash in the Broad Street Riot.
14 June 1645
The English Civil War: Parliamentary forces commanded by Oliver Cromwell defeat the Royalist troops of Charles I at the Battle of Naseby in Northamptonshire.
15 June 1919
English air pioneers John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland, Canada to Ireland.
17 June 1579
English explorer Sir Francis Drake proclaims English sovereignty over an area of the New World known as New Albion - modern day California.
18 June 1429
The French, led by Joan of Arc, defeat the English at the Battle of Patay.
19 June 1997
McDonalds win the longest trial in English legal history against two environmental campaigners who published a leaflet accusing McDonalds of unethical and environmentally destructive activities.
22 June 1611
After spending a winter trapped by ice in present-day Hudson Bay, the starving crew of the Discovery mutinies against its captain, English navigator Henry Hudson, and sets him, his teenage son, and seven supporters adrift in a small, open boat. Hudson and the eight others are never seen again.
23 June 1314
Fighting begins between English and Scottish soldiers at the Battle of Bannockburn in Scotland.
24 June 1675
In colonial New England, King Philip’s War begins when a band of Wampanoag warriors raid the border settlement of Swansee, Massachusetts and massacre the English colonists there.
27 June 1829
In Genoa, Italy, English scientist James Smithson dies after a long illness, leaving behind a will which eventually leads to the creation of the Smithsonian Institute in America.
2 July 1644
English Civil War: The Battle of Marston Moor. The first victory of the war for the Parliamentary forces with Cromwell’s Army defeating the Royalist Army.
6 July 1535
Sir Thomas More, English statesman and Lord Chancellor, is executed on Tower Hill in London for treason - refusing to accept, officially and publicly, Henry VIII as head of the Church of England.
10 July 1645
The English Civil War: Parliamentarians defeat the Royalists at the Battle of Langport in Somerset.
11 July 1656
Ann Austin and Mary Fisher, two Englishwomen, become the first Quakers to immigrate to the American colonies, arriving in a ship at Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
13 July 1643
English Civil War: Royalist forces defeat the Parliamentary Army at Roundway Down in Wiltshire.
15 July 1815
French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders to Captain Maitland aboard the English ship Bellerophon, at Rochefort before being sent into exile on the island of St Helena.
16 July 1955
Racing driver Stirling Moss becomes first Englishman to win the British Grand Prix.
17 July 1453
End of the One Hundred Years' War with a defeat for the English at the hands of the French at the Battle of Castillon.
19 July 1588
The ships of the Spanish Armada are sighted off Lizard Point, in Cornwall on the English coast.
22 July 1298
The English Army of Edward I defeats the Scots led by William Wallace at the Battle of Falkirk in Scotland.
25 July 1909
French aviator Louis Bleriot becomes the first man to fly across the English Channel from a field near Calais to Northfall Meadow near Dover Castle, England.
29 July 1848
At the height of the Potato Famine in Ireland, an abortive nationalist revolt against English rule is crushed by a government police detachment in Tipperary.
31 July 1956
English cricketer Jim Laker takes all 10 Australian wickets in the second innings of the Test Match at Old Trafford, Manchester.
1 August 1774
English chemist and Presbyterian Minister Joseph Priestley identifies a new gas, calling it a ‘new species of air’ - later called oxygen.
2 August 1610
English explorer Henry Hudson sails into what it is now known as Hudson Bay in Canada.
5 August 1538
English explorer Sir Humphrey Gilbert founds the first English colony in North America at St John's in Newfoundland, Canada.
6 August 1926
19 year old American Gertrude Ederle from New York becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel - in 14 hours 34 minutes.
7 August 1782
Henry Tudor, the future Henry VII of England, lands in Wales at the start of his succesful bid to take the English throne.
12 August 1676
In colonial New England, King Philip’s war effectively comes to an end when Philip, chief of the Wampanoag Indians, is assassinated by a Native American in the service of the English.
13 August 1704
English commander, the Duke of Marlborough, wins the Battle of Blenheim in Germany, in which Anglo-Austrian forces under Marlborough and Prince Eugene defeat a combined French and Bavarian army.
15 August 1599
During the Nine Years War, Irish forces led by Hugh Roe O'Donnell ambush English forces led by Sir Conyers Clifford at the Battle of Curlew Pass in Ireland.
18 August 1587
Virginia Dare becomes the first child born of English parents in the New World - 7 days after the arrival of Sir Walter Raleigh's second expedition in North Carolina.
20 August 1992
Englishman Paul Ride is sentenced to seven years in jail by a court in Iraq for allegedly illegally entering the country.
22 August 1642
English Civil War: King Charles I raises his standard at Nottingham leading to war against Parliament.
23 August 1305
Scottish nationalist leader William Wallace is executed by the English.
25 August 1974
In England, the human cannon ball Mary Connors fails to break the English record for being shot out a cannon.
29 August 1350
The English fleet commanded by Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet at the Battle of Winchelsea.
3 September 1651
The English Civil War: Defeat for the Royalist supporters of Charles II by the Parliamentary army commanded by Oliver Cromwell at the Battle of Worcester.
8 September 1664
The Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam is seized by the English and renamed New York in honour of the Duke of York, who organised the mission.
9 September 1988
The England cricket team’s tour to India is cancelled when it emerges that the Indian authorities will not issue visas to those English cricketers who have played cricket in South Africa.
10 September 1608
English adventurer John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in North America.
11 September 1297
Scottish nationalist William Wallace defeats the English at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in Scotland.
18 September 1634
Anne Hutchinson, an Englishwoman who would become an outspoken religious thinker in the American colonies, arrives at the Massachusetts Bay Colony with her family.
19 September 1356
One Hundred Years’ War: The English Army, led by Edward, the Black Prince, defeats the French at the Battle of Poitiers.
21 September 1955
Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles Stuart) and his Jacobite army defeat the English at the Battle of Prestonpans.
29 September 1364
An English army defeats the French at the Battle of the Battle of Auray in France ending the Breton War of Succession.
12 October 1915
The First World War: English nurse Edith Cavell is executed as a spy by a German firing squad for helping captured British soldiers to escape from behind German lines.
14 October 1066
The Battle of Hastings takes place on the southern coast of England. An English army, commanded by King Harold, is defeated by the invasion force of William of Normandy. King Harold is killed and William ‘The Conqueror’ is proclaimed King of England.
17 October 1346
The English army of Edward III defeats the army of King David II of Scotland at the Battle of Neville's Cross near Durham.
25 October 1415
The Hundred Year’s War: The English Army, under King Henry V, defeats a vastly superior French Army at the Battle of Agincourt.
27 October 1644
The English Civil War: Parliament forces achieve a tactical victory over the Royalist army at the Second Battle of Newbury in Berkshire.
29 October 1618
English seafarer and explorer Sir Walter Raleigh, once a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, is beheaded at Whitehall in London.
30 October 1470
Lancastrian King Henry VI is returned to the English after the Yorkists are defeated.
4 November 1922
English explorer Howard Carter discovers the entrance to Tomb of King Tutankhamen in Egypt.
5 November 1688
The Glorious Revolution: William of Orange’s force land on English soil at  Brixham on the south coast.
7 November 1665

The oldest surviving English newspaper The London Gazette is published for the first time.  

15 November 2006
Arab satellite channel Al Jazeera launches an English news and current affairs station.
16 November 1983
English football hooligans cause a night of mayhem in Luxembourg following the national team’s failure to qualify for the European Championships.
17 November 1558
Elizabeth I accedes to the English throne.
25 November 1953
The English Football loses at Wembley stadium for the first time to opponents outside of the British Isles losing 6 - 3 to Hungary.
8 December 1864
The Clifton Suspension Bridge over the River Avon at Bristol, England is officially opened. The bridge was designed by English civil engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
13 December 1643
The English Civil War: A parliamentary force defeats the royalists at the Battle of Alton in Hampshire.
16 December 1914
The First World War: German battle cruisers begin a heavy bombardment of the English port cities Hartlepool and Scarborough.
21 December 2001
British police storm the cargo ship MV Nisha in the English Channel after intelligence suggested that it may contain terrorist materials. They subsequently find nothing illegal onboard.  
27 December 1831
English naturalist Charles Darwin sets sail on his scientific voyage of discovery to South America on board HMS Beagle.
28 December 1973
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s book, ‘The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956’, is published in Russian in Paris. It is soon translated into English and spreads all around the world.
3 January 1924

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