Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward of Westminster
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The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge linking Devon and Cornwall in England.
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World War II: Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg is liberated by the British Army.
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Nazi concentration camp network in northern Germany
Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War.
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Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London (an office separate from that of the Lord Mayor of London).
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The Anglo-Portuguese army under Lord Wellington tries to halt a larger French army under Marshal Masséna marching to relieve Almeida in the battle of Fuentes de Onoro. After intense fighting
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British Army officer and statesman (1769–1852)
The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is opened; it is the first steam-hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel.
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Early British railway line, opened in 1830
The boar-crested Anglo-Saxon Benty Grange helmet is discovered in a barrow on the Benty Grange farm in Derbyshire.
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Ireland is partitioned under British law by the Government of Ireland Act 1920
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1921 division of Ireland into two jurisdictions
London’s Royal Festival Hall opens with the Festival of Britain.
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Multi-purpose venue in the city of London, England
Margaret Thatcher wins the United Kingdom general election. The following day
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The three-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann disappears in Praia da Luz
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King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first royal charter.
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John Knox returns from exile to Scotland to become the leader of the nascent Scottish Reformation.
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