Date

Event

January

17^th

Anne Bronte Born (1820)

February

7^th

Charles Dickens Born (1812)

March

11^th

Commonwealth Day

12^th

Sir Tim Berners-Lee invents the web (1989)

25^th

Slave Trade Act passed abolishing the slave trade throughout the empire

April

1^st

RAF Formed (1918)

2^nd

Start of Falklands War (1982)

7^th

William Wordsworth Born (1770)

9^th

Isambard Kingdom Brunel born (1806)

20^th

RSSG Annual Wreath Laying and Cadet Parade, Cenotaph, London

21^st

Charlotte Brontë born (1816)

23^rd

St. George’s Day

St George Died (303)

William Shakespeare Died (1616)

Royal Society of St George founded (1894)

May

8^th

VE-Day (1945)

24^th

War of The Roses (1455)

28^th

Ian Flemming Born (1908)

June

1^st

Sir Frank Whittle Born (1907)

2^nd

Sir Edward Elgar Born (1857)

6^th

D-Day 80^th Anniversary (1944)

8^th

Last Sighting of Mallory & Irvine (1924)

12^th

Alan Turing Born (1912)

14^th

Battle of Naseby (1645)

15^th

Magna Carta Sealed by King John (1215)

18^th

Battle of Waterloo (1815)

July

12^th

1097^th Anniversary of King Athelstan being crowned the King of the English (927)

130^th Anniversary Banquet, Stationers’ Hall, London

30^th

Emily Bronte Born (1818)

August

15^th

VJ-Day (1945)

26^th

Battle of Crecy (1346)

22^nd

Battle of Bosworth Field (1845)

September

2^nd

Great Fire of London (1666)

6^th

RSSG AGM

8^th

Death of Queen Elizabeth II (2022) / Accession of HM King Charles III (2022)

13^th

RSSG Battle of Britain Lunch, RAF Club, London

15^th

Battle of Britain Day (1940)

21^st

Gustav Holst born (1874)

25^th

Battle of Stamford Bridge (1066)

October

14^th

Battle of Hastings (1066)

21^st

Battle of Trafalgar (1805)

23^rd

Battle of Edgehill (1642)

25^th 

Geoffrey Chaucer born (1400)

Battle of Agincourt (1415)

27^th

RSSG Annual Standards Service, St. George’s Church, Hanover Square, London

29^th

RSSG Founder Howard Ruff Died (1928)

31^st

John Keats Born (1795)

November

5^th

Bonfire Night (1605)

11^th

Armistice Day (1918)

14^th

HM King Charles III Birthday (1948)

22^nd

Benjamin Britten Born (1913)

28^th

William Blake Born (1757)

30^th

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill Born (1874)

December

16^th

Jane Austen Born (1775)

25^th

Sir Isaac Newton Born (1642) – 4^th Jan 1643 in Gregorian Calendar

26^th

Charles Babbage born (1792)