1629Charles I dissolved the Parliament, beginning an eleven year period known as the Personal Rule. He had been harshly criticized by Parliament and realized that, as long as he could avoid war, he could rule without them. It caused discontent among those who provided the ruling classes, although the effects were more popular with the common people. ….
1914 – Suffragette Mary Richardson slashed Velazquez’s painting – ‘Rokeby Venus’ at London’s National Gallery with a meat cleaver as a protest against the Government’s treatment of Emmeline Pankhurst.
…. 1917 Russia and France reached an agreement' to support one another's territorial ambitions for Europe in the aftermath of World War I. The 1917 Franco-Russian agreement was a secret treaty between the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire to support one another's territorialclaims in settlement following the First World War. Under the agreement France recognised Russia's claim to any portions of Poland that she could occupy, and Russia supported France's claim for the return of Alsace–Lorraine from Germany and right to occupy other parts of Germany in the post-war period …
1919The British Government decided in favour of building a tunnel linking England to France.
… On the night of 10th March 1945 seventy German prisoners made their escape by tunnelling from Island Farm Prisoner of War Camp on the outskirts of Bridgend. This was the biggest escape attempt made by German P.O.W.s in Great Britain during the Second World War. The camp was originally built to house workers at the munitions factory in Bridgend, but as the number of German prisoners in Europe increased, Island Farm was seen as an ideal place to locate them. At around 10 pm on March 10 the prisoners, equipped with a map, homemade compass and forged identity papers, made their move. A few got as far as Birmingham in a stolen car and another group got to Southampton, but only three remained uncaptured. Three weeks after the escape all the remaining prisoners were transferred.
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1967 Singer Sandy Shaw released her record 'Puppet on a String' which won the Eurovision Song Contest for Britain.
