October

• Death of Eadwig, king of England

• Birth of Henry III, king of England

• Coronation of Mary I, queen of England

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• Birth of Richard III, king of England

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• Restoration of Henry VI, king of England

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• Birth of Richard Cromwell, lord protector of England, Scotland and Ireland

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• Birth of Henry Cavendish, English natural philosopher and the discoverer of hydrogen

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• Coronation of George II, king of Great Britain

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• Birth of Edward VI, king of England

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• The bones of Edward the Confessor, king of England, were translated to a new tomb in Westminster Abbey

• Coronation of Henry IV, king of England

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• Death of Harold II, king of England

• Birth of James II (VII), king of England and Scots

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• Birth of James II, king of Scots

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• Death of Frédéric Chopin, Polish-French Composer

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• Death of John, king of England (possibly 19th)

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• Birth of Christopher Wren, English architect, astronomer and mathematician

• Coronation of George I, king of Great Britain

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• The battle of Trafalgar. After Horatio Nelson’s death command of the British fleet passed to Cuthbert Collingwood

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• Raymonde de Laroche made her first flight in a fixed-wing aircraft

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• Death of Stephen, king of England

• Death of George II, king of Great Britain
• Accession of George III as king of Great Britain

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• Death of Æthelstan, king of England

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• Coronation of Henry III, king of England

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• Coronation of Henry VII, king of England

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• Halloween

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