21 people were killed and 182 were injured in the Birmingham pub bombings.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
21 people were killed and 182 were injured in the Birmingham pub bombings.
The worst fire in the history of the London Underground killed 31 people at Kings Cross St Pancras station.
Elizabeth was the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn and, despite being declared illegitimate following the annulment of her parents’ marriage, came to the throne as the next in line behind her Catholic half-sister under the terms of the Third Act of Succession.
While it is believed that there was considerable loss of life, actual numbers of Danes who were killed in the St Brice’s Day Massacre are unknown.
The Sex Pistols supported pub rock band Bazooka Joe and played a few cover songs on equipment borrowed from the headliners, but the plug was pulled after twenty minutes.
The Parliament of England passed the First Act of Supremacy which made Henry VIII the head of the Church of England.
Raleigh had been found guilty of treason for his involvement in the Main Plot that sought to depose Elizabeth’s successor James I and replace him with his cousin Arabella Stuart.
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.
Once the beer began to pour into the street, it quickly began to fill the cellars of nearby houses in which families lived, killing eight people.
The Pope granted the Latin title Fidei defensor to Henry after he published a book in which he defended Catholic doctrine against the criticisms levelled at it by Martin Luther in his Ninety-five Theses during the early stages of the Protestant Reformation.
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