The industrial revolution, combined with the first of the Enclosure Acts, had seen the earnings of poor farmers plummet.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
The English arranged carts containing barrels of herring into a defensive wagon fort, with sharpened stakes similar to those used at the Battle of Agincourt positioned around the perimeter.
Flight 609 hit slush on the runway, causing the plane to skid off the end of the runway before crashing through the airport fence, speeding across a road, and losing its port wing after catching on a house.
Describing itself as ‘a charity that works to preserve and protect historic places and spaces – for ever, for everyone’ the National Trust is one of the largest landowners in the United Kingdom.
The concept of a lottery, in which lots were drawn to determine a winner, had been around for centuries before Queen Elizabeth I chartered a prize draw to raise money for the “reparation of the havens and strength of the Realme, and towardes such other publique good works”.
Charles I himself entered the House of Commons chamber – an act that was a huge violation of Parliamentary privilege – and sat in the Speaker’s chair to demand the Five Members be handed over to him.
Over a thousand shells were fired by the German ships, resulting in 137 deaths and a further 592 people being injured in the British towns. Most of the casualties were civilians.
Æthelwold ætheling, a claimant to the Anglo-Saxon throne was defeated at the Battle of the Holme.
The Great Smog of London descended on the British capital due to a combination of air pollution and weather conditions.
21 people were killed and 182 were injured in the Birmingham pub bombings.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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