17th May

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1215 The country was in a state of Civil War and English barons, in revolt against King John, took possession of London.

1527 Archbishop Warham began a secret inquiry into Henry VIII's marriage with Catherine of Aragon, the first step in divorce proceedings.

1536 George Boleyn (an English courtier and nobleman, and the brother of queen consort Anne Boleyn) along with Viscount Rochford and four other men were executed for treason.

1590 Anne of Denmark was crowned Queen of Scotland.

1749 Edward Jenner, English pioneer of vaccination was born.

1836 Joseph Norman Lockyer, English astronomer and co-discoverer of helium, was born.

1861 A group of holidaymakers set off from London on the first foreign 'package trip' arranged by Thomas Cook. It was a six day holiday in Paris.

1890 The first weekly comic paper, Comic Cuts, was published by Alfred Harmsworth, in London.

1899 Queen Victoria laid the foundation stone of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

1900 The siege of the British garrison at Mafeking by Boer forces was broken. The commander of the garrison, Colonel Robert Baden-Powell and his forces had held firm for 217 days.
1915 The fall of the last all Liberal Party government. The poor British performance in the early months of the war forced Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith to invite the Conservatives into a coalition.

1916 The Daylight-Saving Act (‘Summer Time’) was passed in Britain.

1969 Tom McClean from Dublin left Newfoundland aboard Super Silver and completed the first transatlantic solo crossing in a rowing boat on 27th July when he arrived at Blacksod Bay, Co. Mayo.

1978 The coffin containing the body of Charlie Chaplin, missing since his grave was pillaged nearly two months previously, was found.

1984 Prince Charles called a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a 'monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend,' sparking controversies on the proper role of the Royal Family and the course of modern architecture.

1993 Nurse Beverley Allitt was convicted of murdering four babies under her 'care' at the Grantham and Kesteven hospital.

2000 Two Royal Marine commandos (Corporal Alan Chambers, 31, and Marine Charlie Paton, 29) became the first Britons to reach the geographical North Pole.

2010 Four weeks after a volcanic ash cloud disrupted flights over much of Europe, restrictions were lifted at all UK airports after the volcanic ash cloud moved away from UK airspace.

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