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25th October 1415: English king Henry V defeats the numerically superior French army at the Battle of Agincourt

25th October 2022
Tagged as: Agincourt, Archery, Battle of Agincourt, Calais, England, France, Henry V, Hundred Years War, War

Over 8,000 French troops are estimated to have been killed in the Battle of Agincourt, while the English army’s losses under Henry V were less than 500.

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7th January 1785: First aerial crossing of the English Channel completed in a hydrogen balloon

7th January 2022
Tagged as: Aircraft, Britain, Calais, Dover, France, Science, Technology

The first aerial crossing of the English Channel was conducted by Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries in a gas-filled balloon.

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25th October 1415: English king Henry V defeats the numerically superior French army at the Battle of Agincourt

7th January 1785: First aerial crossing of the English Channel completed in a hydrogen balloon

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

31st January 1983: It became compulsory for drivers in the UK to wear a seat belt

30th January 1649: Execution of King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland outside the Banqueting House in London

29th January 1942: Desert Island Discs, the longest-running radio show in the UK, first broadcast

28th January 1986: NASA Space Shuttle orbiter Challenger breaks apart 73 seconds after launch from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida

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

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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