• HMS St Albans after the English city and ducal family of St Albans: HMS St Albans (1687) was a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line launched in 1687....
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  • HMS St Albans was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, launched at Deptford Dockyard in 1687. One of only three 50-gun ships...
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  • that station, he was advanced on 11 January 1690 to the command of HMS St Albans, a fourth rate, with which on 18 July he captured off Rame Head a French...
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    George Churchill (Royal Navy officer) (category English MPs 1685–1687)
    High Admirals Council from 1702 to 1708. He was Member of Parliament for St Albans from 1685 to 1708, then Portsmouth from 1708 until his death in 1710....
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    captures HMS Serapis and HMS Countess of Scarborough but loses Bonhomme Richard which sinks off the Yorkshire coast. 1780 January 16 Cape St. Vincent...
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    1683. wrecked 1693 Deptford 50 (1687) – broken up 1700 for rebuild St Albans 50 (1687) – wrecked 1693 Sedgemoor 50 (1687) – wrecked 1689 Royal Sovereign...
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    widely to sing at cathedrals, including Norwich, Exeter, St Albans and Guildford. The life of St Giles is conducted within the traditional Calendar of the...
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    Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw (1864–1937) Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans (1670–1726) John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey (1231–1304) Thomas Townshend...
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  • clergyman, bishop of Yucatán (d. 1774) April 6 Charles Beauclerk, 2nd Duke of St Albans, British politician (d. 1751) Richard Grey, priest (d. 1771) April 8 –...
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  • Wycliffe. 1455 – Start of the Wars of the Roses: At the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England...
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  • A Lord Mayor's barge is first recorded. 1455 – 22 May: The Battle of St Albans takes place near London. 1460 26 June: During the Wars of the Roses, Richard...
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    parishes of St. George, St. Mary's, St. Thomas, St. Phillip, Christ Church, St. David, St. Matthews, St. Andrew, St. James, St. Johns, and St. Paul. February...
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  • Wales (1894–99); MP for St George, Hanover Square 1916–18 Sir Newton Moore, Premier of Western Australia (1906–10); MP for St George, Hanover Square October–December...
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  • February 1974 A5 Royal Yacht Mary: designated 5 February 1974 A6 HMS Assurance and HMS Pomone, Needles Wrecksite: first designated 11 April 1974, revised...
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    tide table is thought to be that of John Wallingford, who died Abbot of St. Albans in 1213, based on high water occurring 48 minutes later each day, and...
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  • Postboy and Messenger; the first warship is launched in 1696, fifth-rate HMS Looe. 1696 – Work starts on Henry Winstanley's first Eddystone Lighthouse...
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  • " the most popular opera of the 17th century". Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632–1687) In close collaboration with the librettist Philippe Quinault, Lully founded...
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  • Chandos, historian (died 1735) 8 May – Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, soldier, illegitimate son of King Charles II and Nell Gwyn (died 1726)...
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  • opera, by Henry Purcell and Nahum Tate (libretto) performed 1688 in music – 1687 in music – Death of Jean-Baptiste Lully, French composer 1686 in music –...
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    Cottages, Brocklebank Lane, Allerton (1684; Grade II) Home Farm, Croxteth Hall (1687; Grade II) Unitarian Chapel, Gateacre Brow, Gateacre (1700 altered 1719;...
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  • Admiral Alban Curteis leaves from Gibraltar with 6 merchant ships escorted by the British battleship HMS Malaya, aircraft carriers HMS Argus and HMS Eagle...
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  • "(untitled)". Lloyd's List (1694). 14 February 1752. "(untitled)". Lloyd's List (1687). 21 January 1752. "(untitled)". Lloyd's List (1691). 4 February 1752. "WILLIAMSBURG...
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  • Governor of Madras (b. 1653) May 10 – Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier (b. 1670) June 18 – Michel Richard Delalande, French...
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    in the Great Lakes. In 1864, Confederate raiders from Montreal raided St. Albans in Vermont, but they were defeated and were subsequently arrested at the...
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  • The Regicide Gustav Luders: The Sho-Gun (1904) Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632–1687): Achille et Polyxène, Acis et Galatée, Alceste, Amadis, Armide, Atys, Bellérophon...
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  • bomb alerts. 15 June 1992: an IRA bomb exploded in a hijacked minicab in St. Albans Street, London England. 16 June 1992: a 500 lb (230 kg) IRA bomb was found...
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