![]() Nelson is killed during the battle.ġ854: Florence Nightingale is sent to the Crimean War with a staff of 38 nurses.ġ858: Jacques Offenbach’s operetta ” Orpheus in the Underworld” (Orphée aux Enfers) premieres in Paris.ġ895: The Republic of Formosa (later Taiwan) collapses as Japanese forces invade.ġ899: The British Army fights the Boers at the Battle of Elandslaagte in Natal during the Second Boer War.ġ914: The Battle of Warsaw ends with a German defeat.ġ917: US troops enter the front line of the First World War at Sommervillier. 1520: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his fleet reach Cape Virgenes and become the first Europeans to sail into the Pacific Ocean.ġ555: The English parliament refuses to recognize Philip of Spain as king.ġ772: Birth of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Devon.ġ789: The National Assembly declares martial law in France to prevent uprisings.ġ805: Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats the combined French and Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar. ![]()
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