Historical Events

Ship Money Tax

1634 King of England Charles I levies the "Ship Money" tax on all English and Welsh counties

King George I

1714 Georg Ludwig von Hannover crowned as Britain's King George I at Westminster Abbey

1818 US and Britain agree to joint control of Oregon country

1847 12-year-old English boy William Nelman poisons his grandpa with arsenic, becoming a famous court case

1899 American yacht Columbia beats the Shamrock challenge from Royal Ulster Yacht Club in the 11th America's Cup

1899 Battle at Talana Hill, Natal: British army vs. Boers

1930 British White Paper restricts Jews from buying Arab land

Gas Chromatography

1950 Chemists Archer John Porter Martin and James Lovelock give the first demonstration of gas chromatography at a meeting of th

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