please empty your brain below

Just one guess each, thanks.
o) Great Fire of London
a) Davy's safety lamp
t) Aberfan disaster
j) Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly's Frankenstein
s) Henry III, 1216-72
m) England (or West Ham!) winning the World Cup.
n. Capability Brown
r) Battle of Hastings
q) Star Trek
c) General Relativity
f) William Shakespeare
k) Beatrix Potter
g - Charlotte Bronte
d) George Cornell
d) would be the late great George Cornell, murdered by the Krays would it not?
b) Desert Storm
B) Operation Desert Storm
l) Battle of the Somme in Great War.
p) Roald Dahl
h) the Easter Rising
i) BST/Daylight Saving Time.
e) Edmund Ironside (son of Ethelred the ill-advised) reigned for seven months in 1016
That's the lot! Anniversaries as follows...

a) 1816: Humphrey Davy's safety lamp
b) 1991: Operation Desert Storm
c) 1916: Einstein's theory of General Relativity
d) 1966: George Cornell shot at the Blind Beggar
e) 1016: Edmund Ironside crowned
f) 1616: William Shakespeare died
g) 1816: Charlotte Brontë born
h) 1916: the Easter Uprising
i) 1916: Daylight Saving Time introduced
j) 1816: Mary Shelley writes Frankenstein
k) 1866: Beatrix Potter born
l) 1916: Battle of the Somme
m) 1966: England win the World Cup
n) 1716: Capability Brown born
o) 1666: Great Fire of London
p) 1916: Roald Dahl born
q) 1966: Star Trek launches
r) 1066: Battle of Hastings
s) 1216: King Henry III crowned
t) 1966: Aberfan disaster
1016 and 1066 were both "years of three kings", like 1483 and 1936.

Actually, if you count Edward Atheling, there were four in 1066.










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