Today 1646 On the verge of defeat, King Charles I flees Oxford for a Scottish army camp close to Southwell near Newark-on-Trent

Today 1296 Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England

Today 1660 English Convention Parliament meets and votes to restore Charles II

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Today 1509 Henry VIII, 2nd Tudor king of England ascends to the throne at age 17, after the death of his father, Henry VII

Today 1659 Lord Protector Richard Cromwell disbands English parliament

Today 1536 Thomas Cromwell begins to plot Anne Boleyn's downfall while feigning illness

Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England? thecollector.com/social-mobilit… via History of Britain

Today 1653 Oliver Cromwell and 40 musketeers forcibly dissolve the English Rump Parliament, after it failed to establish a caretaker government. In Cromwell's words 'You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately ... In the name of God, go!'

Today 1770 British explorer Captain James Cook first sights Australia. Writes in his log book that “what we have as yet seen of this land appears rather low, and not very hilly, the face of the Country green and Woody, but the Sea shore is all a white Sand.”

Archaeologists Find Preserved Remains of 3,000-Year-Old Village in England
The village was engulfed by fire back in 850 B.C., but many of its artifacts are still intact. extremetech.com/science/archae… via History of Britain

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Today 1835 William Lamb (Lord Melbourne) becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after Robert Peel resigns out of frustration

Left British Prime Minister William Lamb
Right British Prime Minister Robert Peel

Today 1621 Lord Chancellor of England Francis Bacon is charged with 23 counts of bribery and corruption by a parliamentary committee on the administration of the law

Today 1397 Geoffrey Chaucer tells the 'Canterbury Tales' for the first time at the court of English King Richard II

Today 1705 Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College, Cambridge

Today 1746 Jacobite Rising 1745: Battle of Culloden, the last battle on British soil: Royalist troops under the Duke of Cumberland defeat the Jacobite army of Charles Edward Stuart

Today 1534 Thomas Cromwell is appointed Chief Secretary to King Henry VIII of England

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