1533: Henry VIII secretly married his second wife Anne Boleyn

1644: Royalist troops, primarily Irishmen from Leinster, under Lord Byron, threatened the Parliamentarian stronghold at Nantwich. Sir Thomas Fairfax was sent by Parliament to relieve the town. A confused action ensued, with the Royalists doing well until Nantwich's garrison threw its weight into the action. Byron and his surviving forces were forced to retire to Chester.

1791: Parliament passed the Constitutional Act of 1791 and split the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada

1917: During fierce fighting near Kut in Mesopotamia, Lieutenant Colonel Henderson led a battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in a counter-attack after Turkish troops had succeeded in taking a position. Despite already being wounded, he led from the front, running alone at the head of the attack for 500 yards through intense fire. The position was retaken at bayonet point, but Henderson suffered another two wounds, and fell in No Man's Land. Lieutenant Phillips went to his aid, and eventually managed to carry him to safety, but his injuries proved fatal. Both Henderson and Phillips were awarded the Victoria Cross.

1942: Having taken Rabaul in New Britain, Japanese troops landed at Lae in Papua New Guinea. This and other Japanese advances south helped prompt Canberra to order full mobilisation in Australia.