23rd June: Britain’s historic foreign relations

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23rd June 2016

23rd June: Britain’s historic foreign relations

The 23^rd June has, historically, seen many events regarding Britain’s relationship with other countries and so I thought I’d put together this HistoryPod Extra to share some with you.

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#Britain
#Catholicism
#England
#Europe
#France
#Germany
#Henry VIII
#Independence
#Portugal
#Protestantism
#Prussia
#Revolution
#Scotland

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21st November 1974: The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people and injure 182

9th August 1173: Construction begins on the Leaning Tower of Pisa

5th February 1958: Nuclear bomb lost off Tybee Island in Georgia, USA after an in-air collision

17th March 1992: White South Africans vote to end apartheid in a referendum

10th April 1858: The ‘Big Ben’ bell cast in Whitechapel

9th April 1767: John Hancock forcibly removes British customs officials from his ship

8th April 1904: France and Britain sign the Entente Cordiale

7th April 1954: President Eisenhower first described the ‘domino theory’ of the spread of communism during a news conference

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

23rd June: Britain’s historic foreign relations

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