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26th August 1346: Battle of Crécy during the Hundred Years War won by the army of the English king Edward III

26th August 2023
Tagged as: Battle of Crecy, Calais, Crecy, Edward III, France, Hundred Years War, Longbow, Philip VI, War

The battle was fought against the French army of King Philip VI and led to the port of Calais becoming an English enclave for over two centuries.

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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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26th August 1346: Battle of Crécy during the Hundred Years War won by the army of the English king Edward III

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

23rd September 1949: President Truman announces the USSR’s first nuclear test

22nd September 1776: Nathan Hale hanged by the British for spying for the Continental Army during the American Revolution

21st September 1931: Britain abandons the gold standard after Parliament passes the Gold Standard (Amendment) Act

20th September 1973: Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in the ‘Battle of the Sexes’ tennis match

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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