An A- Z of Important Dates in British History. Over 1. 00. 0 historic dates crucial to Britain. A detailed timeline of the events that have shaped British History we have aimed to have been as inclusive as possible and this section is being continually added to. If you feel we have left something out please don't hesitate to let us know. We even have a BC date for you (Caesar lands on British Shores) although the exact date is of course unverified.. On this day: Great Storm Kills 1. HMS Bulwark Explodes in Medway - 1. Brinks Mat Robbery - 1. September 0. 43: Claudius Receives Surrender of 1. British Tribes. 1st of June 0. Defeat of Boudicca. April 0. 73: Masada. August 0. 79: Vesuvius Erupts. February 2. 11: Roman emperor Septimius Severus dies at York. August 5. 65: St Columba Sees Nessie. December 5. 97: St Augustine Introduces Julian Calendar to England. October 6. 33: Battle of Heathfield. April 6. 64: Synod of Whitby. May 6. 85: Battle of Nechtansmere. June 7. 93: Vikings Raid Northumbria Coast for 1st time. January 8. 67: Vikings seize York. November 8. 69: Saxon King Edmund martyred by the Vikings. January 8. 71: Battle of Reading. January 8. 71: Battle of Ashdown - Alfred defeats the Danes. January 8. 71: The Battle of Basing. April 8. 71: Alfred Becomes King of Wessex. January 8. 78: Battle of Chippenham. August 9. 10: Last Great Viking Raid Defeated. October 9. 59: Edgar the Peaceable Unites English Kingdoms. June 9. 73: First True King of England Crowned. August 9. 91: Battle of Maldon. November 1. 00. 2: St Brice's Day Massacre. May 1. 01. 0: Battle of Ringmere. April 1. 01. 2: Archbishop of Canterbury Martyred by Vikings. October 1. 01. 6: Battle of Ashingdon. November 1. 01. 6: Edmund Ironside. Accession of Henry VIII1. August 1. 51. 3: Henry VIII Wins Battle of the Spurs. September 1. 51. 3: Battle of Flodden Field. October 1. 51. 7: Luther Posts His 9. Theses. 2nd of May 1. Death of da Vinci. June 1. 52. 0: Field of Cloth of Gold. April 1. 52. 7: England & France sign treaty of Westminster. January 1. 53. 3: Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn. If you have a birth, marriage or death notice that you would like added here please contact Ann Selchick at [email protected] ABBOTT. Died of wounds, in France, on 4th April, 1918 Private Hugh Abbott (Canadians), 3rd son of the late William and Sarah. He made about 520 films between 18, covering a range of genres including trick films, fantasies, comedies. Anger Burwell Lymburner Mabee McConkey Newspaper Clippings (Aug. 31/16) In this gallery are newspaper clippings from my mother’s scrapbooks. Their dates are from the 1940s on. They are about family and our towns as well as random. January 1. 53. 5: Henry VIII becomes Head of Church in England,6th of July 1. Thomas More is executed. October 1. 53. 5: 1st English Translation of the Bible printed. May 1. 53. 6: Anne Boleyn Beheaded. July 1. 53. 6: Authority of the pope declared void in England. August 1. 53. 7: Honourable Artillery Company Founded. December 1. 53. 8: Henry VIII ex- communicated. January 1. 54. 0: Henry VIII Marries Anne of Cleves. February 1. 54. 2: Execution of Catherine Howard. November 1. 54. 2: Battle of Solway Moss. September 1. 54. 3: Mary Queen of Scots Crowned. February 1. 54. 5: Battle of Ancrum Moor. July 1. 54. 5: Sinking of the Mary Rose. July 1. 54. 5: French Invade Isle of Wight. January 1. 54. 7: Edward VI succeeds to throne. September 1. 54. 7: Battle of Pinkie - last conflict between england and scotland.
August 1. 54. 9: Battle of Sampford Courtenay. August 1. 54. 9: Battle of Dussindale. July 1. 55. 3: Lady Jane Grey proclaimed Queen of England. February 1. 55. 4: The Battle of Fleet Street. February 1. 55. 4: Lady Jane Grey Executed. March 1. 55. 6: Thomas Cranmer Burnt at the Stake. January 1. 55. 8: Calais Lost to the French. November 1. 55. 8: Death of Mary Tudor. January 1. 55. 9: Elizabeth I crowned. April 1. 56. 4: Birth of Shakespeare. July 1. 56. 7: Mary Queen of Scots abdicates. May 1. 56. 8: The Battle of Langside. January 1. 56. 9: Worlds 1st National Lottery starts. January 1. 57. 0: The assassination of James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray. February 1. 57. 0: Elizabeth I excommunicated by the Pope. January 1. 57. 1: The Royal Exchange opens in London. December 1. 57. 7: Drake Starts round the world voyage. April 1. 58. 0: Dover Straits Earthquake. September 1. 58. 0: Drake completes the first circumnavigation of the globe. November 1. 58. 2: Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway. June 1. 58. 3: 1st British Life Insurance Policy. July 1. 58. 4: First English Colonists in North America. July 1. 58. 6: Tobacco Hits English Society. September 1. 58. 6: Executions of Babington Plotters Begin. February 1. 58. 7: Mary, Queen of Scots is executed. April 1. 58. 7: Drake Attacks Cadiz. May 1. 58. 8: Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon. July 1. 58. 8: Spanish Armada defeated. May 1. 59. 3: Murder of Christopher Marlowe. August 1. 59. 5: The Battle of Cornwall. August 1. 59. 8: Worst English Defeat in Ireland. June 1. 59. 9: Globe Theatre Opens. December 1. 60. 0: East India Company Chartered. November 1. 60. 1: Elizabeth. Grace Scores his Hundredth Hundred. July 1. 89. 5: First Car Ride in Britain. August 1. 89. 5: First Prom Concert. August 1. 89. 5: Birth of Rugby League. October 1. 89. 5: First Motoring Offences in Britain. January 1. 89. 6: First Speeding Fine in Britain. April 1. 89. 6: First Modern Olympics. May 1. 89. 6: 1st Edition of The Daily Mail. August 1. 89. 6: Klondike Gold Rush. August 1. 89. 6: First Pedestrian Killed by Car. December 1. 89. 6: Glasgow Subway Opens. May 1. 89. 7: Bram Stoker Publishes Dracula. June 1. 89. 7: Victorias Diamond Jubilee. September 1. 89. 7: Worlds 1st Drunk Driver Caught. November 1. 89. 7: First Royal Command Performance. December 1. 89. 7: RAC Established. February 1. 89. 8: Britains 1st Car Crash Fatality. September 1. 89. 8: Battle of Omdurman. July 1. 89. 9: Churchill Fails in Oldham By- Election. October 1. 89. 9: Boer War Begins. November 1. 89. 9: Churchill Captured by Boers. January 1. 90. 0: Battle of Spion Kop. February 1. 90. 0: Formation of the Labour Party. May 1. 90. 0: Relief of Mafeking. October 1. 90. 0: Keir Hardie becomes 1st Labour MP1. December 1. 90. 0: Flannan Isles Mystery Born. January 1. 90. 1: Queen Victoria dies. February 1. 90. 1: Queen Victorias Funeral. February 1. 90. 1: Brit Patents Vacuum Cleaner. February 1. 90. 1: Churchill. Biography – LAURIER, Sir WILFRID – Volume XIV (1. Dictionary of Canadian Biography. LAURIER, Sir WILFRID (baptized Henry- Charles- Wilfrid), lawyer, newspaperman, and politician; b. Saint- Lin (Laurentides), Lower Canada, son of Carolus Laurier and Marcelle Martineau; m. He took up farming and on 7 Jan. Montreal married Madeleine Millots. Thus began the long line of Lauriers in North America. Sometime around the spring of 1. Wilfrid’s father, Carolus, a sixth- generation Laurier, moved to Saint- Lin, which was a predominantly agricultural parish with a population of about 2,0. French Canadian but including a handful of British immigrants. A farmer and surveyor, Carolus was bilingual, literate, and dynamic, and he quickly grasped the possibilities for socio- economic mobility in that part of the country. Inspired by his father, Charles, a surveyor whose hobbies were astronomy, philosophy, and mathematics, he set his sights high in his community despite his very modest income. Charles lived with the family from 1. Carolus was a natural leader who held several important offices and in 1. Above all, he and his father were interested in politics, especially the policies of Louis- Joseph Papineau*’s Patriote party, which they had defended at home among friends and in their correspondence. At the time of Wilfrid’s birth on 2. Nov. 1. 84. 1, the two men were fulminating against the recent union of Lower and Upper Canada. To a family still grieving over the loss in 1. Marie- Honorine, the arrival of this second child brought healing. March 1. 84. 8. In September 1. Saint- Lin and sent him to one in New Glasgow, a few miles from his home, where the English language and British customs prevailed. Here Wilfrid became immersed in a culture that would always have a place in his heart, and he soon learned English, which he would speak with a slight Scottish accent. In 1. 85. 4 Carolus took him to the Coll. There Wilfrid discovered a rigid universe run by priests who made the Roman Catholic religion both a program of studies and a rule of life. The teachers glorified ultramontanism and denounced liberalism. Although he occasionally skipped classes to go and hear Rouge speakers talk about politics, Wilfrid did well at L’Assomption. In 1. 85. 9, for instance, he won prizes in seven of his eleven subjects. He had already developed a passion for politics and had pinned his hopes on liberalism. In 1. 86. 1 his long years at the college came to an end. He would never forget its oppressive, conservative atmosphere – or the taste for literature he had cultivated there. He decided to study law, a natural choice, given his interest in the field, his personality, and the eloquence he had displayed at school. The Montreal milieu and the English establishment had a permanent influence on his future. A piano teacher of modest means, she too was a boarder there. It was also during his student years that he discovered, to his horror, the gravity of an illness which was sapping his energy. His frequent coughing spells and blood- stained handkerchiefs convinced him he had tuberculosis, a malady of unhappy memory for the Laurier family. In 1. 86. 2–6. 3 his condition frequently confined him to bed and brought him to the brink of depression. Only later, while living in the Bois- Francs region, would he learn he was suffering from chronic bronchitis, a “germ of death” which would be with him for the rest of his life. During his time at university as well, Laurier established lasting ties with Rouge activists in Montreal. Second in his class of 1. Toussaint- Antoine- Rodolphe Laflamme*, who was a radical Rouge. Laflamme took him into his law office as an articled clerk. Laurier to the Institut Canadien, a literary society and centre of Rouge activity in Montreal, of which he was an influential member. Laurier fitted in so well that he served as first vice- president from May 1. In the society Laurier rubbed shoulders with Joseph* and Gonzalve* Doutre, Louis- Antoine Dessaulles*, M. He worked with them, in vain, to smooth out the problems that it was experiencing with Bishop Ignace Bourget* of Montreal, who fiercely opposed liberalism and the Rouge party. Laurier would never forget his skirmishes with Bourget. Laurier passed the law examinations set by the Lower Canadian board of examiners. This son of an ordinary surveyor, who had finally achieved professional status, cut a striking, even astonishing figure. Slim and more than six feet tall, he took meticulous care of his wavy, chestnut hair, which threatened to spill over his broad forehead. He was genuinely handsome. He had the face of a thinker and artist, marked with a certain nobility, but his pale complexion and gentle, delicate features gave a disquieting impression of fragility. His good looks never matured and left him and others somewhat anxious about his health. None of his friends had any doubts as to the man’s calibre, however. Intelligent and ambitious, although easygoing and a bit of a daydreamer and romantic, he cultivated benevolence and affability. He was capable of disarming frankness and admirable loyalty to his friends, and he defended his convictions stubbornly, with implacable logic, while showing great tolerance of different opinions. His calm, reserved, almost timid appearance concealed his capacity for leadership. A realist who liked to take men and things as they were and who may already have lost his religious faith, he feared two things: the swift flight of time, and death. They were recurring causes of anguish to the young lawyer. At heart he was an intellectual with little inclination to physical exercise but a passion for political action. His first office, which he opened in partnership with Pierre- Amable- Oscar Archambault on 2. Oct. 1. 86. 4, closed within a month; his second, established with Archambault and Henri- Lesieur D. On 1. 1 March 1. 86. Laurier was alone and penniless. In their law firm Laurier did the work of two men and was highly regarded by Lanctot, who saw him as “a man of the future,” according to the poet Louis Fr. But Laurier’s health, which was still frail, soon thwarted these high hopes. At the end of October 1. In August 1. 86. 4 he had joined with the Liberals of Lower Canada, both radicals and moderates, in denouncing the proposed confederation. They argued that it would give too many powers to the central government and lead to the annihilation of the French Canadians, who should at least be consulted. He took part in a study group that published a devastating critique of the scheme, he spoke at several public meetings, and he wrote articles for L’Union nationale. On 1. 0 March 1. 86. Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada approved the plan by 9. In November 1. 86. Antoine- Aim. There Laurier would find the opportunity to pursue both his struggle against confederation and the drastic treatment – fresh country air – essential for his bronchitis. He left Montreal for L’Avenir on 1. November, but it was in Victoriaville, where he published Le D. On 7 March 1. 86. London, Laurier wrote scathingly: “Confederation is the second stage on the road to . We are being handed over to the English majority. On 2. 1 March, however, Le D. On 1 July confederation was officially proclaimed. At the age of 2. 5 Wilfrid Laurier suddenly had to reorganize his life. He decided to settle permanently in the Bois- Francs region, at Arthabaskaville (Arthabaska) where he took up residence in mid September 1. The administrative and judicial seat of the county, Arthabaskaville, with its storybook landscape, had a population of about 7. French- speaking. Laurier would have a large house built there in 1. Liberals and artists. He became so well integrated into local society that he was elected alderman, mayor, and, in 1. He looked after the affairs of the parish community and church on a regular basis. In 1. 89. 7 his political responsibilities made it necessary for him to move to Ottawa, but, as his correspondence shows, he would never forget the charm and tranquillity of Arthabaskaville, to which he would return at Christmas and during seasonal holidays. On 1. 3 May 1. 86. Zo. He had always refused to ask for her hand on the grounds that he was too ill and poor, but when Dr Gauthier told him she was about to marry another suitor even though she still loved him, he hurried off to Montreal. That very evening, without Carolus or any of his family being present, he was married, and he then immediately returned alone to Arthabaskaville, where an urgent case awaited him. No children would ever be born to him and Zo. On the whole it was a happy marriage, though not always. There was Laurier’s passionate attachment to . In 1. 87. 4 he became infatuated with this brilliant and highly cultured woman, who shared his literary tastes and his interest in things English. Their romantic liaison was the most famous in Canadian political history. Their letters bear witness to a genuine love, but was it platonic? No one knows for certain. It was rumoured at the time, though never confirmed, that Armand La Vergne* was their son. Their involvement apparently lasted until about 1. He opened his law office in Arthabaskaville, where he would practise for 3. Eug. His practice concentrated mainly on general law and never had the advantage of any famous cases. Peers recognized his competence by electing him to the council of the Arthabaska bar in 1. Undoubtedly the star of his firm, Laurier to his great regret gradually had to reduce his share of the day- to- day work because of ever- increasing political obligations. The practice of law did not make him wealthy or enable him to accumulate the money he needed for his growing responsibilities within the Liberal party. He found this situation trying and complained about it regularly. The next day William Mulock*, the mp for York North in Ontario, asked his authorization to raise a fund of $5. Laurier accepted, just as in 1. Liberal party’s offer of a luxurious home in Ottawa.
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