Historic British Dates
Famous dates in Dover:
6th of April 1580 : Dover Straits Earthquake
25th of May 1660 : The English Restoration - Charles II lands on British Soil
25th of July 1909 : Louis Bleriot flies the Channel
24th of December 1914 : First Bomb Dropped on English Soil
17th of December 1988 : Work begins on the Channel Tunnel
Click below to list Historic Dates by County:
England: Bath | Bedfordshire | Berkshire | Bristol | Buckinghamshire | Cambridgeshire | Cheshire | Cornwall | County Durham | Cumbria | Derbyshire | Devon | Dorset | East Yorkshire | Essex | Gloucestershire | Greater Manchester | Hampshire | Hertfordshire | Isle of Wight | Kent | Lancashire | Leicestershire | Lincolnshire | London | Merseyside | Norfolk | North Yorkshire | Northamptonshire | Northumberland | Nottinghamshire | Oxfordshire | Rutland | Shropshire | Somerset | South Yorkshire | Staffordshire | Suffolk | Surrey | Sussex | Tyne and Wear | Warwickshire | West Midlands | West Yorkshire | Wiltshire | Worcestershire | Scotland: Angus and Dundee | Argyll | Ayrshire and Arran | Borders | Dumfries and Galloway | Edinburgh and the Lothians | Fife | Glasgow | Grampian | Highlands | Isle of Mull | Lanarkshire | Orkneys | Perthshire | Shetland Isles | Stirlingshire | Western Isles | Wales: Anglesey | Mid Wales | North Wales | South Wales | West Wales | Ireland: Dublin | Louth | Offshore: Guernsey | Isle of Man | Isles of Scilly | Jersey | Northern Ireland: Belfast | County Antrim | County Armagh | County Fermanagh | County Londonderry |
Recommended Books:
A Picture of Britain |
Ashes Fever |
Coast |
Churchill |
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