Number 4: the Tweede Vryheidsoorlog, or second War of Liberation started in 1899 in South Africa between the Afrikaners and the British Empire. In other words, the Second Boer War started.
Number 3: George the II was crowned king of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1727.
Well done Christopher!
N# 6 – 50 years ago the CSIRO built the Parkes Radio Telescope 🙂
Trivia – It broke down on the day the astronauts landed on the moon, software glitch ,,, our Aussie scientists realigned by by dead reckoning to within 1 meter.
N#7 – Britain’s first pillar post boxes were erected in Jersey in 1852. Originally painted green, the now famous red was introduced for better visibility in 1874.
8# – Sinking of the Mary Rose? 😦
Donald – No to nos 6 & 7.
8 – Right ship – wrong direction! 🙂
N#1 – Battle of Gaul? the Christian Franks against the Muslim hordes, on October 11th, 732
N#5 – Marie Curie discovers that radioactivity removes all skin blemishes right down to the bone? 🙂
No! No! – Have another try at no 8!
N# 8 – it was the day when the Mary Rose almost failed to come up from the bottom of the sea on October 11, 1982, they finally got her up just before the end of the day 😦
October 11 is also a very special day for China, there are celebrations all over the place, not many know why though but it was the beginning of what many called “The Prosperous Times” 🙂
N#1 – October 11, 1531 Battle of Kappel? 🙂
I feel like a stalker, I’m the only one commenting 😦
No 8 is right!
You may be the only one up! It’s just gone 6.00 am in the UK!
Also —- October 11th, 2007 …. “XOLIDOX” joins MyT and the world meet the new mutant breed of Super-Blogger 🙂
Ahem, it’s still before midnight in California! I just finished an application to attend graduate school in Minnesota.
Number two, by the way, marks the date in 1521 that Pope Leo X gave Henry VIII the title of “defender of the faith”.
Mornin’ Boadicea – up early to do an airport run.
5. Nurse Edith Cavell shot by the Germans?
6. Jodrell Bank opens?
9 First recorded sighting of Loch Ness monster?
Back later
OZ
Christopher
Right!
Oz
5. Almost – was sentenced to death!
6. Yes.
7. Try again – you are on the track!!
#1 – the English army remembering an urgent appointment elsewhere, Bannockburn 1314?
Sheona – it’s certainly an English army in a hurry – but not Bannockburn!
No.10 looks like Magdalene College, Cambridge, so I’m guessing that it’s to do with admitting women.
#9 Isn’t that the “Surgeon’s Picture” of the Loch Ness Monster? Actually a fake, based on a toy submarine!
no 1 Battle at Tours, Charles Martel beat the Moors, AD732
No 9. The Locj Ness Monster was not seen on this day, or the 12th, or the 13th, or the 14th…
Araminta
Correct!
FEEG
Keep going…
Zen
My #20 says that it’s an English Army… 🙂
Bravo
Sorry you posted as I was posting!
You’re quite right, it wasn’t – because…
… 🙂
No.7. Is this to do with the introduction of Post codes?
It is indeed, Araminta!
I’ll rephrase my answer for N#1 🙂
N#1 – Death of Huldrych Zwingli at the battle of Kappel?
#9 OK, was it on this day that the faker admitted to the photo of Nessie being a hoax, on his deathbed, I believe.? I have an idea it may have been originally published on April 1st 1933, which may have been a bit of a giveaway!
#1 could be the Lionheart’s banner. But surely he didn’t run away from anyone? And any army he had could hardly be described as English. A mystery. Perhaps it’s Richard iii hastily leaving Bosworth Field?
or …
N#1 – The sack of Wexford which left the Irish non too happy 🙂
OK FEEG – I’ll give you that one!
No to everyone else!
🙂
N#1 Some lateral thinking here
Since Boadicea says that her N# 20 explains N#1 as the “English Army” and since the Scottish and English armies merged in 1707 to create the “British Army”, it took nearly 50 years for both armies to merge. Then the event must have happened prior to 1707 🙂
Prior to that the only other major defeat by the English was at the Battle of Hastings when William the Conqueror invaded England but that was on October 14th, 1066.
But … there was the Battle of Winceby, 11 October 1643, it was just after that agreements/decrees were made for the “British Army” to be created…………. so I go for ……
N#1 – Battle of Winceby and the defeat of the Royalist army. 🙂
The picture seems to indicate that it is the Battle of Winceby as it was a famous battle, taught to all British Soldiers, it lasted for only a few minutes but the the Royalist army was chased for many hours.
From this battle all British soldiers are taught, “Never chase a strong running enemy, surround them and kill them or let them go” … even though they were then defeated, the Royalists killed many of the winners in the ensuing pursuit, Dunkirk proved the point many years later. 🙂
The dress is mediaeval, Winceby is too late, surely.
The dress is mediaeval, Winceby is too late, surely.
A minor set back 🙂
😦
Is #1 King John having some trouble with the local tides in the Wash?
FEEG: I’ll second that, I know he died on October 18, 1216 and that was shortly after losing his loot in thy Wash ( I still lose money that way). 🙂
Mornin’ Boadicea – Bloody Hell, I got two right and at OFFS hrs of the morning in between a pre-dawn shower and clearing out a car for all the baggage! OK, let’s be pedantic and state (for the record) that Nurse Cavell was actually executed on 12th October, 1915, having previously been sentenced to death and subsequently shot. 🙂
OZ
I think #1 is a Crusades thingy. Working on it or should I be looking elsewhere?
OZ
OZ: See FEEG @ #38, I think he has pegged it.
OZ: at first I thought it was the Battle of Tours/Poitiers, perhaps the first AND last time that France actually took a stand to save Western civilisation, but then realised that that took place on the 10th.
LW – You and Feeg could be right and I could, of course, be wrong. I was also wondering why the figure behind the King (John?) seems to be wearing a Scottish bonnet and am presently frantically googling Robert Bruce, Mel Gibson William Wallace and Edward ‘Lomgshanks’.
C’mon Boadicea – it certainly wasn’t the Iceni doing the chasing. ‘Fess up!
OZ
“Lomgshanks” Oh Gawd! I hate keyboards that have the ‘m’ and the ‘n’ next to each other. Definitely not “paw-friendly”.
OZ
OZ: Re (sp). I thought my “thy” for “the” worked out rather well in #39.
I am up ridiculously early, whilst Boadicea is sensibly still firmly in the arms of Morpheus, but let it be known that FEEG has indeed the measure of it, and will be recognised accordingly when our leader emerges, hours from now.
Personally, I regard the engraver’s representation of water to be dubious, but that’s what Boadicea told me to look for when I enquired, on the smoking terrace, about the solution to this visual question. Look at the water!” she cried.
“What water?” was my feeble rejoinder, following which I received a lecture on the hapless monarch losing his family jewels in the Wash – cue for a couple of Pseu’s puns? 😕
LW – Welcome to my world. 🙂
Bearsy – That Morpheus bloke is definitely lairing it up, taking undue advantage of our Noble Warrior Queen. Best go and give him a beasting. 🙂
Boadicea's Chariot 
Number 4: the Tweede Vryheidsoorlog, or second War of Liberation started in 1899 in South Africa between the Afrikaners and the British Empire. In other words, the Second Boer War started.
Number 3: George the II was crowned king of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1727.
Well done Christopher!
N# 6 – 50 years ago the CSIRO built the Parkes Radio Telescope 🙂
Trivia – It broke down on the day the astronauts landed on the moon, software glitch ,,, our Aussie scientists realigned by by dead reckoning to within 1 meter.
N#7 – Britain’s first pillar post boxes were erected in Jersey in 1852. Originally painted green, the now famous red was introduced for better visibility in 1874.
8# – Sinking of the Mary Rose? 😦
Donald – No to nos 6 & 7.
8 – Right ship – wrong direction! 🙂
N#1 – Battle of Gaul? the Christian Franks against the Muslim hordes, on October 11th, 732
N#5 – Marie Curie discovers that radioactivity removes all skin blemishes right down to the bone? 🙂
No! No! – Have another try at no 8!
N# 8 – it was the day when the Mary Rose almost failed to come up from the bottom of the sea on October 11, 1982, they finally got her up just before the end of the day 😦
October 11 is also a very special day for China, there are celebrations all over the place, not many know why though but it was the beginning of what many called “The Prosperous Times” 🙂
N#1 – October 11, 1531 Battle of Kappel? 🙂
I feel like a stalker, I’m the only one commenting 😦
No 8 is right!
You may be the only one up! It’s just gone 6.00 am in the UK!
Also —- October 11th, 2007 …. “XOLIDOX” joins MyT and the world meet the new mutant breed of Super-Blogger 🙂
Ahem, it’s still before midnight in California! I just finished an application to attend graduate school in Minnesota.
Number two, by the way, marks the date in 1521 that Pope Leo X gave Henry VIII the title of “defender of the faith”.
Mornin’ Boadicea – up early to do an airport run.
5. Nurse Edith Cavell shot by the Germans?
6. Jodrell Bank opens?
9 First recorded sighting of Loch Ness monster?
Back later
OZ
Christopher
Right!
Oz
5. Almost – was sentenced to death!
6. Yes.
7. Try again – you are on the track!!
#1 – the English army remembering an urgent appointment elsewhere, Bannockburn 1314?
Sheona – it’s certainly an English army in a hurry – but not Bannockburn!
No.10 looks like Magdalene College, Cambridge, so I’m guessing that it’s to do with admitting women.
#9 Isn’t that the “Surgeon’s Picture” of the Loch Ness Monster? Actually a fake, based on a toy submarine!
no 1 Battle at Tours, Charles Martel beat the Moors, AD732
No 9. The Locj Ness Monster was not seen on this day, or the 12th, or the 13th, or the 14th…
Araminta
Correct!
FEEG
Keep going…
Zen
My #20 says that it’s an English Army… 🙂
Bravo
Sorry you posted as I was posting!
You’re quite right, it wasn’t – because…
… 🙂
No.7. Is this to do with the introduction of Post codes?
It is indeed, Araminta!
I’ll rephrase my answer for N#1 🙂
N#1 – Death of Huldrych Zwingli at the battle of Kappel?
#9 OK, was it on this day that the faker admitted to the photo of Nessie being a hoax, on his deathbed, I believe.? I have an idea it may have been originally published on April 1st 1933, which may have been a bit of a giveaway!
#1 could be the Lionheart’s banner. But surely he didn’t run away from anyone? And any army he had could hardly be described as English. A mystery. Perhaps it’s Richard iii hastily leaving Bosworth Field?
or …
N#1 – The sack of Wexford which left the Irish non too happy 🙂
OK FEEG – I’ll give you that one!
No to everyone else!
🙂
N#1 Some lateral thinking here
Since Boadicea says that her N# 20 explains N#1 as the “English Army” and since the Scottish and English armies merged in 1707 to create the “British Army”, it took nearly 50 years for both armies to merge. Then the event must have happened prior to 1707 🙂
Prior to that the only other major defeat by the English was at the Battle of Hastings when William the Conqueror invaded England but that was on October 14th, 1066.
But … there was the Battle of Winceby, 11 October 1643, it was just after that agreements/decrees were made for the “British Army” to be created…………. so I go for ……
N#1 – Battle of Winceby and the defeat of the Royalist army. 🙂
The picture seems to indicate that it is the Battle of Winceby as it was a famous battle, taught to all British Soldiers, it lasted for only a few minutes but the the Royalist army was chased for many hours.
From this battle all British soldiers are taught, “Never chase a strong running enemy, surround them and kill them or let them go” … even though they were then defeated, the Royalists killed many of the winners in the ensuing pursuit, Dunkirk proved the point many years later. 🙂
The dress is mediaeval, Winceby is too late, surely.
A minor set back 🙂
😦
Is #1 King John having some trouble with the local tides in the Wash?
FEEG: I’ll second that, I know he died on October 18, 1216 and that was shortly after losing his loot in thy Wash ( I still lose money that way). 🙂
Mornin’ Boadicea – Bloody Hell, I got two right and at OFFS hrs of the morning in between a pre-dawn shower and clearing out a car for all the baggage! OK, let’s be pedantic and state (for the record) that Nurse Cavell was actually executed on 12th October, 1915, having previously been sentenced to death and subsequently shot. 🙂
OZ
I think #1 is a Crusades thingy. Working on it or should I be looking elsewhere?
OZ
OZ: See FEEG @ #38, I think he has pegged it.
OZ: at first I thought it was the Battle of Tours/Poitiers, perhaps the first AND last time that France actually took a stand to save Western civilisation, but then realised that that took place on the 10th.
LW – You and Feeg could be right and I could, of course, be wrong. I was also wondering why the figure behind the King (John?) seems to be wearing a Scottish bonnet and am presently frantically googling Robert Bruce,
Mel GibsonWilliam Wallace and Edward ‘Lomgshanks’.C’mon Boadicea – it certainly wasn’t the Iceni doing the chasing. ‘Fess up!
OZ
“Lomgshanks” Oh Gawd! I hate keyboards that have the ‘m’ and the ‘n’ next to each other. Definitely not “paw-friendly”.
OZ
OZ: Re (sp). I thought my “thy” for “the” worked out rather well in #39.
I am up ridiculously early, whilst Boadicea is sensibly still firmly in the arms of Morpheus, but let it be known that FEEG has indeed the measure of it, and will be recognised accordingly when our leader emerges, hours from now.
Personally, I regard the engraver’s representation of water to be dubious, but that’s what Boadicea told me to look for when I enquired, on the smoking terrace, about the solution to this visual question. Look at the water!” she cried.
“What water?” was my feeble rejoinder, following which I received a lecture on the hapless monarch losing his family jewels in the Wash – cue for a couple of Pseu’s puns? 😕
LW – Welcome to my world. 🙂
Bearsy – That Morpheus bloke is definitely lairing it up, taking undue advantage of our Noble Warrior Queen. Best go and give him a beasting. 🙂
OZ
Well done – FEEG.