He was in turn killed, along with eight of his followers and another soldier. A fair is held here on the 24th of exchanged by archbishop Cranmer with Henry VIII. The battle was fought in 1016 as a result of Danish invasion of England. The case remains unsolved. owner of some part of the lands formerly inclosed The waves demolished a portion of the white cliffs at Dover, bringing down part of the Castle wall with it. When a constable was sent to arrest him, Tom shot him dead. 50 acres of meadow. He was the son of King thelred the Unready and his first wife, lfgifu of York.Edmund's reign was marred by a war he had inherited from his father; his cognomen "Ironside" was given to him "because of his valour . All the crew bar one were rescued. After considerable experimentation, he constructed a vast aircraft with a wingspan of 104 feet, powered by two steam engines. Chillingly, Kielces explosive payload was only a fraction of that still inside Monty off Sheerness. Though Canterbury had more than once experienced Viking aggression, nothing prepared it for what happened in 1011. Otford's four churches are the Anglican Church of St Bartholomew in the village centre, the Otford Methodist Church, the Most Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church, and the Otford Evangelical Church. The source of the uncertainty is the wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery, 1 miles offshore. The local military were summoned, with others sailing over from Tilbury, and three different fire services arrived. Eleven of the twelve carriages came off the tracks, and four overturned when they reached points. Version 5.0. The inquiry pinpointed five contributory factors. The riots took their name from a mythical Captain Swing whose name was routinely appended to threatening notes sent to opponents. Its origins are obscure, but it described the French Calvinist Protestants who by the mid-C15 amounted to two million roughly 10% of Frances population. there are 8 servants, and 6 mills of 72 shillings, and use of himself and his successors, and it remained in land, and though the rivulets and springs throughout it among other premises, in exchange to that king. The man with the noose was William Calcraft. (Cropped). It was scuppered by evidence that, contrary to his testimony, his wife could not have paid a critical 1,000 hotel bill; it was in fact paid by Saudi aides. Great South-Eastern Flood: Kent Cinque Ports by Clem Rutter, Rochester, Kent, licensed under CC BY 2.5. Subsequently led by both Indira and Rajiv Gandhi, it long remained the dominant force in Indian politics, with occasional interruptions by the BJP, whose longest tenure of power commenced in 2014. El & Humph were the C15 supercouple. This time, Louis gave up for good. There was significant damage in Folkestone four miles away. What followed set a precedent for all future thrillers involving balloon flights. No one had been hurt, and the process of clearing up commenced. After being recaptured, he was transported to Canada, but escaped through a train window and crossed the St Lawrence River into the then neutral USA. 1755; he married Martha, daughter of He circulated a manifesto called The Complaint of the Poor Commons of Kent, airing the peoples grievances. In between, the Anglo Saxon Chronicle gives us tantalising evidence of a battle at Otford in which the Kentishmen took on their mighty opponent. This sect was centred on Pluckley and Smarden, where the cloth trade probably brought the community into contact with radical Protestant ideas from the Low Countries. It reportedly flew for 300 yards at nearly 5 feet. He had however omitted one decisive factor from his calculations: a few men and women dressed in blue uniforms. Meanwhile, the tender and a carriage of the Ramsgate train concertinaed into a railway bridge, which collapsed on top. several lands, now belonging to Charles Polhill, esq. Apart from cutting off the hands and feet of some who had agreed to leave the castle early, the King was persuaded to treat his prisoners with uncustomary clemency. the children of Mr. Richard Round, deceased, and of that annual produce. So comprehensive was the destruction that the remains had to be demolished. Owing to lack of space, the Balloon Factory moved in 1890 to Aldershot, Hampshire; then, from 1904, it relocated to nearby Farnborough, which afforded space to build the first British airship, Nulli Secundus, launched in 1907. 9) but this afterwards After getting a degree at Sheffield University, she became an engineer, but an even better pilot. About 120 vessels had taken shelter in the Downs, normally a safe haven. The Crvecoeurs supported Empress Matildas claim to succeed her father Henry I, and in 1139 were in an awkward position when she invaded England with French troops. who rested with the archbishop at it several times both This was a smart move, because Badlesmeres wife Margaret was known to detest her. The blast, which killed 79 crew, had been caused by a fire in newspapers unaccountably tucked by Tyneside shipbuilders into the lagging of the midship magazine. sculpture, with a busto of statuary marble, and inscription, for Its offices were wrecked by the Luftwaffe in 1942, but production that week was completed at the Kent Messengers Maidstone office. In the rolls of the 13th of king Henry III. 21). There The barons whod forced the Kings hand at Runnymede were still unhappy, and next invited Louis, son of King Philippe II of France, to join them in deposing the King of England. More botches followed before they finally succeeded; but they left the body in a field in a snowstorm, apparently unaware that their tracks would be left visible. A big issue facing Christianity from the start was predestination. Later that month, however, SS RF Matthews actually rammed the Lightship; this time, the message was for real. North Kent was the scene of a C16 national sensation that was not so much a murder mystery as a murder farce. The Kentish rebellion of Spring 1648 went further than football. [4] The battle was a victory for Edmund,[2] who lost enough men that he returned to Wessex to raise another army. He even had an excess of guns added at launch to emphasise the point. (Cropped). Equipment salvaged from the largely intact plane included a cutting-edge bomb-sight that was soon incorporated in British bombers. and one villein, with 18 borderers, having 45 carucates; On May 29th, 1652, the great Dutch admiral Maarten Tromp was commanding 40 ships escorting a convoy. 20), By virtue of the commission of enquiry into the value The event that brought him fame (or infamy) occurred when he conducted a robbery at Gads Hill, Rochester. He decided on a siege. Meanwhile, the people of Kent grew accustomed to the daily sight of dogfights overhead, as Hurricanes and Spitfires, pursued by Messerschmitt fighters, took on Heinkel, Dornier, and Junkers bombers. The police got their first lead when a woman tried banking notes marked Tonbridge. A suave, high-living Etonian, he was considered for the part of James Bond in the movie series, but distinguished himself instead as an obsessive gambler. Unusually, it lasted two days, suggesting that it was hard fought. The Polhills afterwards became owners of this Ashby proved their collective guilt by reportedly going into ecstasy in court and expanding to a vast bigness. During the Eighty Years War between the Spanish Empire and the emerging Dutch nation, a fleet was sent from La Corua to reinforce and resupply Spanish troops in Flanders. present possessor of them. The king did eventually relent, whilst acknowledging Kentish loyalty by building the historic Placentia Palace at Greenwich. On November 29th, 1957, Oakwood Hospital formerly the Kent County Lunatic Asylum saw a fire with a trivial cause but a terrible sting in the tail. [8] This army pursued Cnut into Kent where Eadric forsook Cnut, and from where Cnut crossed the Thames into Essex and began raiding Mercia. Zeppelins now appear great lumbering affairs of little practical use. On June 1, One of the biggest challenges facing the English Commonwealth under Cromwell was the mercantile strength of the Dutch Republic. battles fought at Otford, one of which happened By August, the nation was at war with itself. Built by Kentish Master Shipwright Peter Pett at Woolwich, the Sovereign of the Seas was more than just the biggest warship in the world; she was a political statement. The Weald having long been a hive of Lollard dissent, with Tenterden, Benenden, and Cranbrook at its centre, he presided over a purge, starting in April 1511. In January 1861, a minor incident led within days to a major insurrection at St Marys Island Prison in Chatham. with two hundred pounds. On Friday, September 22nd, 1989, a 15-pound time-bomb went off at 8.22am in the Royal Marines depot in Deal. THE MANOR OF SERJEANTS OTFORD, with the The scite of it, with a considerable estate in this parish, is now in the possession The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle recorded that the Mercians and the people of Kent fought at Otford, without giving the outcome, although it is considered significant that Kent was re-established as an independent . they continued down to Sir Sidney Stafford Smythe, The investigation, which itself cost 6 million, took detectives to Ashford, Bexley, Detling, Greenwich, Hucking, Leeds, Staplehurst, Tankerton, Tunbridge Wells, and Welling, illustrating the ubiquity of organised crime. The liner Princess Irene had been requisitioned at her launch the previous October as a minelayer. He overreached himself, however, and was killed at Smithfield. There is one word to say to anyone who demands that the wreck of SS Richard Montgomery off Sheppey be disarmed: Kielce! Originally called Edgar Wakeman, SS Kielce was a Polish cargo ship that in 1946 collided with the French vessel Lombardy off Folkestone, and sank on her side in 35 feet of water. Their leader, Joss Snelling from Broadstairs, favoured Botany Bay at Kingsgate as a landing place, it being suitably secluded but also offering caves and tunnels handy for handling quantities of contraband without detection. The military operation in Flanders devised by Captain Home Popham during the Revolutionary War with France was an eerie forerunner of the disastrous Zeebrugge Raid of 1918. Her death sentence was commuted to life in Broadmoor. He led them past London to Kent, presumably expecting to raise support among similarly bolshy Kentishmen. Though most of England had given up, the young new king took the battle to the Danes. The bewildering fact is that the Kings School was founded nearly a thousand years before both Eton and Harrow. On August 20th, 1944, she was lying at anchor with a cargo of ammunition when she began to drag anchor. The conspirators met at Saltwood Castle to plan their attack, and assembled at Conquest House in Canterburys Palace Street immediately before going to confront their victim. The battle has been labelled the first recorded sea battle in British history. The impartial gentry of Kent presented a petition asking the Long Parliament to compromise with the King, particularly by renouncing its claim to controlling the militia. In the era of sail, it was customary for warships to form a line that fired on the enemy passing in the opposite direction. Its publisher was James Abree, who eventually distributed it in all major Kent towns east of the, The military operation in Flanders devised by Captain Home Popham during the Revolutionary War with France was an eerie forerunner of the disastrous. But the former in that year The German Army and Navy both possessed fleets that arrived in squadrons to dump bombs on cities while people below spectated. There was great enthusiasm for going to war in August 1914. anno 1313, (fn. This was hardly surprising, as temperatures that day had reached 90F, and they had been inside for 18 hours. The former operated out of Dover, the latter Ramsgate. At 10.55pm on March 6th, 1897, 14 men were sinking the Simpson shaft when water burst through the walls with explosive force, and the shaft rapidly filled. Ignored, Cade convened an army of 5,000 at Blackheath. It transpired that the water had escaped from an adjacent abandoned shaft. It was opened in 1692 at the behest of Queen Mary II, who liked the idea of a naval equivalent of the Chelsea Hospital for soldiers. In the south chancel, a memorial It lies on the River Darent, 3 miles north of Sevenoaks. The landlord, Brian Wooster, was in the habit of watching out for trouble coming through the door, but had not expected a threat from across the street. The cyclone that raced through southern England in the early hours of October 16th, 1987 is often mistakenly called a hurricane because of its hurricane-force gusts. It was commanded by mercenary pirate Eustace the Monk, carrying troops commanded by Robert de Courtenay. He was incarcerated at the RWK barracks in Maidstone, where he attempted to escape by digging a tunnel. Sampson Waring, of Rochester, who, some few years Also in Sussex, Winchelsea was obliterated, and had to be rebuilt on the top of a cliff, while Hastings lost its harbour when a cliff collapsed. The first battle on British soil recorded in history took place in Kent. Over in low-lying Holland, 1,836 died. Its most famous alumni are Christopher Marlowe and Sir William Harvey, although the one best known to todays pupils is probably childrens author Sir Michael Morpurgo. The Celts retreated to the Thames, but were only delaying the inevitable. Crucially, this incorporated a research & development programme, known as the Balloon Factory, which in 1882 moved to Chatham. of Unfortunately, in the short term, it would provide only short-term respite against an implacable foe. The owners of the Shakespeare Colliery at Dover had paid over the odds to attract experienced miners from far afield, but invested nothing in pumps. The Puritans intolerance did not stop at restricting sports. It was plainly an effective tactic: English resistance folded when Cnut returned with a large army two years later. Under half the ships 500 crew survived, many of the dead being buried at Cheriton Road Cemetery, where a memorial now stands. accounted a manor, and seems in the reign of king He permitted a formal inquiry by many of the top nobles in England, even including some Saxons. years by a branch of the family of Petley, and another his descendant, of the same The fire service was unable to make much difference because the tide was out and there was no other water source. The first battle was fought in 773, between Offa, King of Mercia, and Adric, King of Kent, when Offa gained the victory, yet not without slaughter on both sides. It caused quite a stir thereabouts. Four hours before high tide, the normal high-tide mark had already been reached. The sect left no trace. The weather had been poor, and the River Medway was in full spate. Kent got lucky in that respect, but witnessed extraordinary happenings. it would have been but little known had it not been In these situations, a mysterious fire normally comes into play, but this case was different. Concerning. Diggle calmly transferred to HMS Myngs, and at 8.15pm sent another torpedo through the hole. 5) hold 1 suling and an The Battle of Brentford was fought in 1016 between invading forces of the Kingdom of Denmark under Cnut and the defending forces of the Kingdom of England led by Edmund Ironside. Its foundation date actually makes it the oldest continuously existing school in the world, the Kings School in Rochester (founded 604) being a relative stripling. A suspect in a woolly hat was seen running off. His execution on August 1st did indeed draw a good crowd, estimated at over 8,000; and he gave the reporters something to enthuse about by struggling for two minutes before expiring. The engine, River Cray, derailed after the Pollhill Tunnel, unfortunately at a point where a bridge crossed a cutting. with the dean and chapter of St. Peter's, Westminster, for the advowson and patronage of Cheshunt, in side towards the east and west. Not until the affluent 1980s did the Channel Tunnel get the go-ahead. Although some Spanish ships got through, about 40 were sunk and 7,000 men killed. Seasiders prepared by heaping sandbags against doors, but had to leave windows open so they would not be smashed by the 18-foot surge. them; adjoining to which they had two large parks, That demand was rebutted in 1635 by an English book, Mare Clausum (Closed Sea), to which Charles lent his weight by having this powerful ship built. October 4th, 1624 brought a storm described as a terrible gale, the like of which has never been seen which was really saying something among a nation of seafarers. His counsel requested leniency because the law really applied to steam engines. When the boy resisted, Bird gruesomely cut his throat. The 5 oclock service to Deal set off from Cannon Street with the usual load of commuters. The carriage toppled over, and the hop-pickers were pitched into the foaming waters. It was not until March 1895 that the Lumire brothers presented their cinmatographe in Paris. It was perhaps a portent: those two nations had just formed an alliance, and would both be at war with England that century. Damage was estimated at over 10,000. It did not start a war, however, but ended one. Shakespeare even mentions the earthquake in Romeo and Juliet. Its founder was Eadbald, King of Kent, and son of King Aethelberht I and Queen Bertha. acres of land, of which about seventy are woodland. Saturday, August 7th, 1655 did not start well for widower Sir George Sondes of Lees Court in Sheldwich. others, to his kinsman, Sir Richard Betenson, bart It began in a first-floor tailors workshop adjacent to a ward housing 350 male patients. lands in Essex; (fn. He engaged a businessman named George Jones to realise it. August, for pedlary ware, &c. Antient history makes mention of two famous 16). Unsurprisingly, he ran out of fuel, and attempted a crash landing near Stowting. The first of these was fought in the year 773, when surveyed, when it was returned, that there belonged This great showman used a short rope to ensure a slow death by strangulation, giving him the pretext to pull theatrically on the guilty parties legs, or even climb onto their shoulders, to break their necks. After which the As soon as France fell in June 1940, after just six weeks resistance to the German invasion, Churchill announced gloomily that the Battle of Britain was about to begin. However, he was also found guilty of driving a horseless carriage, failing to have three persons in charge, and failing to display his name and address. Parliament reacted with the same outrage as the last time, denouncing their insolence and gaoling them. By 1450, the rule of Henry VI and, Although the Cornish Rebellion of 1497 is fashionably pitched as a Celtic nationalist revolt against the English monarch, it was in truth an armed protest against tax rises that was hijacked by a disgruntled minor aristocrat called James Tuchet, the 7. Cnut became undisputed king, and for once did something laudable: he had Eadric put to death. It soon filled up, and St Andrews House was supplemented with first the Queens House and then the Hermitage Block. Numerous ships were wrecked, mostly with all hands: HMS Restoration (387 lost), HMS Northumberland (220), HMS Stirling Castle (206), and HMS Mary (268) among many others. It was his job to read out the charge, demand the Kings plea, and later announce the death sentence. Tossed around by wind and tide, he ended up breast-stroking 40 miles in a zigzag course before he reached Calais; strong currents held him up for five hours. It started when the crew of HMS Sandwich seized control of their ship, and 27 others followed suit. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle recorded that the Mercians and the people of Kent fought at Otford, without giving the outcome, although it is considered significant that Kent was re-established as an independent . What they discovered inside was horrific. It was at the time the highest loss of life in a British road accident. The battle was a victory for the English, who nevertheless lost a large number of men. It turned out that there had been murder above bloody murder. the mansion itself, but vast heaps of rubbish and foundations, which cover near an acre of ground. She flew to stardom at 26 by becoming the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia, her first of several long-distance firsts. He was proclaimed King of England by his supporters, and went off to suppress much of the South, while John skulked in the West. The raids ultimately proved merely a distraction from Hitlers war on Russia, and brought Germany retaliation on a horrendous scale. It remained in this location until 1870, when a larger and quieter replacement was built off the Tonbridge Road west of the river; but this too was replaced just sixty years later by the more spacious building that forms the hub of the current school. Though 200 men battled frantically to put it out, the flames spread to the building, so all were ordered out. In June 1450 Henry sent soldiers led by Sir Humphry Stafford to put down the revolt. After retreating to London to regroup, Louis sent for a supply fleet from France. After witnessing the 1857 Indian Mutiny, Allan Hume, the son of a Radical MP, came to the conclusion that Indians needed a forum to express discontent, especially concerning agrarian policy. War proved another calamity. 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