Historical Events

Hadrian's Wall

122 Construction begins on Hadrian 's Wall in Northern England

1553 English bishop Hugh Latimer arrested

1743 Great Britain, Austria and Savoy-Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms

1751 Britain signs Austrian & Russian alliance

1759 British beat French forces at the battle of Plains of Abrahams near Quebec - kills both leading generals Wolfe and Montcalm

Grand Assault on Gibraltar

1782 The Grand Assault on Gibraltar by the allied French and Spanish fleets, including ten floating batteries and land forces, is heavily defeated by the British garrison, with all floating batteries destroyed and allied casualties of 1,473 compared to only 83 for the British

1800 Curacao in British hands (until Jan 1803)

Faraday Effect

1845 English chemist Micha

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