Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM
1789 mutiny aboard the British Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty
British History & Royals
No Events for this Date
Please check other dates or explore history below.
Recently Added Events
Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM
Pioneering French aviator
World War II: Nine German E-boats attack US and UK units during Exercise Tiger
📜 HISTORY🌍 UNITED STATES
1939–1945 global conflict
First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol’s Scottish army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne
📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 UNITED KINGDOM
1296–1328 war between England and Scotland
The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army from Orkney invades mainland Scotland but is defeated by a Covenanter army.
📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 GLOBAL
Scottish civil war battle (1650)
Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.
📜 HISTORY🌍 UNITED KINGDOM
British politician (1929–2023)
The kingdom of France and the kingdom of Scotland agree on a treaty of mutual aid at Corbeil.
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 FRANCE
Country in Western Europe (843–1792; 1815–1848)
Playwright William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM
English playwright and poet (1564–1616)
World War I: Italy secretly signs the Treaty of London pledging to join the Allied Powers.
📜 HISTORY🌍 ITALY
1914–1918 global conflict
The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 INDIA
King of the United Kingdom from 1936 to 1952
The British space programme launches its first satellite
📜 SPACE🌍 UNITED KINGDOM
Official efforts to develop space capabilities
A car ramming attack at a Lapu-Lapu Day festival kills 11 people and injures at least 30 in Vancouver
📜 HISTORY🌍 UNITED KINGDOM
Vehicle ramming attack in British Columbia, Canada
Charles Fremantle arrives in HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the British Empire.
📜 CITIES🌍 UNITED KINGDOM
Royal Navy Admiral (1800–1869)
The Governor General of Canada
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM
Federal representative of the Canadian monarch
British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM
Artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt