1333 - The Wars of Scottish Independence ended at the Battle of Halidon Hill with victory for the Scots.

1545 - The Tudor warship Mary Rose sank off Portsmouth.

1553 - Lady Jane Grey was replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after having that title for just nine days.

1588 - The Spanish Armada was sighted in the English Channel.

1799 - A group of Napoleon Bonaparte's soldiers discovered what is now know as The Rosetta Stone, enabling the translation of hieroglyphics for the first time.

1843 - Brunel's steamship the SS Great Britain was launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and also becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world.

1947 - Burmese nationalist Aung San, six of his cabinet and two non-cabinet members were assassinated.

1976 - Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created around the mountain also called Mount Everest.