Royal Navy · French Revolutionary Wars
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Enero
12 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1776 American Revolutionary War: Burning of Norfolk – Norfolk, Virginia, is burned to the ground by combined Royal Navy and Continental Army action.
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acontecimiento · 1910 Captain David Beatty is promoted to rear admiral, and becomes the youngest admiral in the Royal Navy (except for royal family members) since Horatio Nelson.
91 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1806 Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral.
131 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1797 French Revolutionary Wars: A naval battle between a French ship of the line and two British frigates off the coast of Brittany ends with the French vessel running aground, resulting in over 900 deaths.
151 hecho ·
fallecimiento · 1815 Emma, Lady Hamilton, English-French mistress of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (born 1761)
211 hecho ·
nacimiento · 1788 William Henry Smyth, Royal Navy officer, hydrographer, astronomer and numismatist (died 1865)
311 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1918 A series of accidental collisions due to poor visibility leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.
Febrero
11 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1793 French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
142 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: In the action of 14 February 1944, a Royal Navy submarine sinks a German-controlled Italian Regia Marina submarine in the Strait of Malacca.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1797 French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St. Vincent: John Jervis, (later 1st Earl of St Vincent) and Horatio Nelson (later 1st Viscount Nelson) lead the British Royal Navy to victory over a Spanish fleet in action near Gibraltar.
171 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1859 Cochinchina Campaign: The French Navy captures the Citadel of Saigon, a fortress manned by 1,000 Nguyễn dynasty soldiers, en route to conquering Saigon and other regions of southern Viet Nam.
181 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1797 French Revolutionary Wars: Sir Ralph Abercromby and a fleet of 18 British warships invade Trinidad.
201 hecho ·
nacimiento · 1744 William Cornwallis, English admiral and politician (died 1819)
221 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1744 War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon causes several Royal Navy captains to be court-martialed, and the Articles of War to be amended.
Marzo
11 hecho ·
nacimiento · 1955 Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence, member of the British royal family and Royal Navy officer
21 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1776 American Revolutionary War: Patriot militia units attempt to prevent capture of supply ships in and around the Savannah River by a small fleet of the Royal Navy in the Battle of the Rice Boats.
221 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, the Royal Navy confronts Italy's Regia Marina in the Second Battle of Sirte.
291 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy forces defeat those of the Italian Regia Marina off the Peloponnesian coast of Greece in the Battle of Cape Matapan.
Abril
21 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1801 French Revolutionary Wars: In the Battle of Copenhagen a British Royal Navy squadron defeats a hastily assembled, smaller, mostly-volunteer Dano-Norwegian Navy at high cost, forcing Denmark out of the Second League of Armed Neutrality.
51 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a carrier-based air attack on Colombo, Ceylon during the Indian Ocean raid. Port and civilian facilities are damaged and the Royal Navy cruisers and are sunk southwest of the island.
61 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1776 American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.
121 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1782 American Revolution: A Royal Navy fleet led by Admiral George Rodney defeats a French fleet led by the Comte de Grasse at the Battle of the Saintes off Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.
161 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1799 French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor: Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
201 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1792 France declares war against the "King of Hungary and Bohemia", the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars.
231 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1918 World War I: The British Royal Navy makes a raid in an attempt to neutralise the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge.
281 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1792 France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium and Luxembourg), beginning the French Revolutionary Wars.
Mayo
71 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1798 French Revolutionary Wars: A French force attempting to dislodge a small British garrison on the Îles Saint-Marcouf is repulsed with heavy losses.
91 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
171 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1760 French forces besieging Quebec retreat after the Royal Navy arrives to relieve the British garrison.
201 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1741 The Battle of Cartagena de Indias ends in a Spanish victory and the British begin withdrawal towards Jamaica with substantial losses.
241 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: Battle of the Atlantic: In the Battle of the Denmark Strait, the German battleship Bismarck sinks the pride of the Royal Navy, , killing all but three crewmen.
Junio
12 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1854 Åland War: The British navy destroys merchant ships and about 16,000 tar barrels of the wholesale stocks area in Oulu, Grand Duchy of Finland.
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acontecimiento · 1794 The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.
41 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German Kriegsmarine submarine U-505, the first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
141 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1666 A four day long naval engagement between the Dutch and English fleet ends, with the English suffering heavier losses.
161 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1795 French Revolutionary Wars: In what became known as Cornwallis's Retreat, a British Royal Navy squadron led by Vice Admiral William Cornwallis strongly resists a much larger French Navy force and withdraws largely intact, setting up the French Navy defeat at the Battle of Groix six days later.
182 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1803 Haitian Revolution: The Royal Navy led by Rear-Admiral John Thomas Duckworth commence the blockade of Saint-Domingue against French forces.
1 más ese día
fallecimiento · 2023 Paul-Henri Nargeolet, French navy commander and explorer (born 1946)
221 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1893 The Royal Navy battleship accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.
261 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1794 French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Fleurus marks the first successful military use of aircraft and turns the tide of the War of the First Coalition.
Julio
51 hecho ·
fallecimiento · 1819 William Cornwallis, English admiral and politician (born 1744)
61 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1801 First Battle of Algeciras: Outnumbered French Navy ships defeat the Royal Navy in the fortified Spanish port of Algeciras.
191 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: Battle of Cape Spada: The Royal Navy and the Regia Marina clash; the Italian light cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni sinks, with 121 casualties.
201 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1866 Austro-Prussian War: Battle of Lissa: The Austrian Navy, led by Admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, defeats the Italian Navy near the island of Vis in the Adriatic Sea.
221 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1797 Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Battle between Spanish and British naval forces during the French Revolutionary Wars. During the Battle, Rear-Admiral Nelson is wounded in the arm and the arm had to be partially amputated.
251 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1797 Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain).
261 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: is the last British Royal Navy ship to be sunk in the war.
291 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1588 Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: English naval forces under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeat the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.
311 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1970 Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy.
Agosto
11 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1798 French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay): Battle begins when a British fleet engages the French Revolutionary Navy fleet in an unusual night action.
21 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1798 French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of the Nile concludes in a British victory.
41 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1796 French Revolutionary Wars: Napoleon leads the French Army of Italy to victory in the Battle of Lonato.
61 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1914 World War I: U-boat campaign: Two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
131 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1779 American Revolutionary War: The Royal Navy defeats the Penobscot Expedition with the most significant loss of United States naval forces prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
161 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1913 Completion of the Royal Navy battlecruiser .
181 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1759 Beginning of the battle of Lagos, in which a British fleet defeats a French fleet trying to slip through Gibraltar.
271 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1793 French Revolutionary Wars: The city of Toulon revolts against the French Republic and admits the British and Spanish fleets to seize its port, leading to the Siege of Toulon by French Revolutionary forces.
282 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1914 World War I: The Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.
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acontecimiento · 1810 Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy accepts the surrender of a British Royal Navy fleet at the Battle of Grand Port.
Septiembre
81 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1793 French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Hondschoote.
101 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1939 World War II: The submarine is mistakenly sunk by the submarine near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss of a submarine in the war.
151 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1794 French Revolutionary Wars: Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington) sees his first combat at the Battle of Boxtel during the Flanders Campaign.
191 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1799 French Revolutionary Wars: French-Dutch victory against the Russians and British in the Battle of Bergen.
291 hecho ·
nacimiento · 1758 Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, English admiral (died 1805)
Octubre
101 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1814 War of 1812: The United States Revenue Marine attempts to defend the cutter Eagle from the Royal Navy.
191 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1662 An English Buccaneer force led by Royal Navy commodore Christopher Myngs launches an attack on Santiago de Cuba which is subsequently sacked.
212 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1805 Napoleonic Wars: A British fleet led by Lord Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet under Admiral Villeneuve in the Battle of Trafalgar.
1 más ese día
fallecimiento · 1805 Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, English admiral (born 1758)
Noviembre
12 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1914 World War I: The first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific, with the loss of and .
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acontecimiento · 1918 World War I: With a brave action carried out into the waters of the Austro-Hungarian port of Pula, two officers of the Italian Regia Marina sink with a manned torpedo the enemy battleship SMS Viribus Unitis.
61 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1792 Battle of Jemappes in the French Revolutionary Wars.
111 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: In the Battle of Taranto, the Royal Navy launches the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history.
171 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1796 French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Bridge of Arcole: French forces defeat the Austrians in Italy.
201 hecho ·
fallecimiento · 1935 John Jellicoe, Royal Navy officer and First Sea Lord (born 1859)
221 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1718 Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard attacks and boards the vessels of the British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") off the coast of North Carolina. The casualties on both sides include Maynard's first officer Mister Hyde and Teach himself.
271 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean Sea.
Diciembre
61 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1803 Five French warships attempting to escape the Royal Naval blockade of Saint-Domingue are all seized by British warships, signifying the end of the Haitian Revolution.
71 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1904 Comparative fuel trials begin between warships and : Spiteful was the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and the trials led to the obsolescence of coal in ships of the Royal Navy.
81 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1914 World War I: A squadron of Britain's Royal Navy defeats the Imperial German East Asia Squadron in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
101 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships and are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near British Malaya.
131 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1939 The Battle of the River Plate is fought off the coast of Uruguay; the first naval battle of World War II. The Kriegsmarine's Deutschland-class cruiser (pocket battleship) Admiral Graf Spee engages with three Royal Navy cruisers: , and .
141 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1814 War of 1812: The Royal Navy seizes control of Lake Borgne, Louisiana.
191 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1796 French Revolutionary Wars: Two British frigates under Commodore Horatio Nelson and two Spanish frigates under Commodore Don Jacobo Stuart engage in battle off the coast of Murcia.
311 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: The Royal Navy defeats the Kriegsmarine at the Battle of the Barents Sea. This leads to the resignation of Grand Admiral Erich Raeder a month later.
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