9th April

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1413 Henry V was crowned King of England. He was the second English monarch from the House of Lancaster.

1483 The young Edward V acceded to the throne on the death of Edward IV. The boy was murdered in the Tower 75 days later, on 25th June.

1511 St John's College, Cambridge, founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort (mother of King Henry VII and paternal grandmother of King Henry VIII), received its charter.

1585 The expedition organised by Sir Walter Raleigh departed England for Roanoke Island (now in North Carolina) to establish a permanent English settlement in what later became the Virginia Colony.

1649 The birth of James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, claimant to the English throne, who led a failed rebellion against James II which cost him his head. His 320 accomplices were sentenced to death by Judge Jeffreys.

1747 The Scottish Jacobite Lord Lovat was beheaded on Tower Hill, London, for high treason. He was the last man to be executed in this way in Britain, in a form of execution which had been reserved for the nobility.

1770 The explorer Captain Cook arrived in Botany Bay, Australia, the first European to do so.

1806 English engineer and inventor Isambard Kingdom Brunel was born. He was perhaps the greatest of the 19th-century engineers and designed railways, bridges, tunnels, viaducts and ships.

1838 The opening of the the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, London.

1937 The Kamikaze arrived at Croydon Airport in London. It was the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe. The flight from Tokyo to London took 51 hours, 17 minutes and 23 seconds

1969 Sikh busmen in Wolverhampton won the right to wear turbans on duty.

1969 Brian Trubshaw, the first British pilot to fly Concorde, made his first flight in the British built prototype. The 22 minute flight left from a test runway at Filton near Bristol and landed at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire.

1983 English trainer Jenny Pitman became the first woman to train the winner of the Grand National (Corbiere) at Aintree, Liverpool.

1984 About 100 pickets were arrested during violent clashes with police outside two working coal pits in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.

2002 The funeral of the Queen Mother was held at Westminster Abbey.

2003 Iraqis pulled down symbols of Saddham Hussein as US tanks rolled into Baghdad.

2005 The Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles were married, in a civil ceremony at the Guildhall in Windsor.

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