Important events of the British Royal Navy

Important events of the British Royal Navy Related Important Events ⚡

Date of Event	Event / Incident
14 March 1757	British Royal Navy Admiral John Byng was court-martialled andexecuted by firing squad when he failed to 'do his utmost' during theBattle of Minorca at the start of the Seven Years' War.
11 October 1776	The American Revolutionary War-The British Royal Navy defeated American ships in the War of Volcaur Island on Lake Champalan to give enough time to prepare his defense for the Charloga campaign, but gave enough time to American forces.
16 January 1780	American Revolutionary War-The British Royal Navy gained their first major naval victory over their European enemies in the war when they defeated a Spanish squadron in the Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
16 April 1797	The Spithead and North Rebellion began in the British Royal Navy.
12 July 1801	A squadron of the British Royal Navy, a French Revolutionary War-Line, defeated a large squadron of Spanish Navy and French Navy ships in Gibraltar Gut.
02 September 1807	The British Royal Navy began his bombing of Copenhagen to capture the Dan-Norwegian Navy.
02 September 1807	The British Royal Navy began its bombing of Copenhagen to the Dan-Norwegian Navy.
19 August 1812	The USS Constitution was defeated in the 1812-American Navy War, the Nebritish Royal Navy defeated HMS Gurreyar on the coast of Nova Scotia in Canada, leading to its surname 'Old Ironusides'.
29 December 1860	To compete with the French Navy's La Glair, the world's first Pironclad warship, the British Royal Navy launched the world's first threaded armored warship, HMS Warrier.
02 October 1901	Holland 1 was the first submarine of the British Royal Navy, launched at Barrow-in-Furnace.
31 May 1916	German Kaiserlish Marine and the British Royal Navy clashed in the intensive battle of Juteland, the largest naval battle of World War I.
23 April 1918	The First World War British Royal Navy raided the Belgian port of Brugs-Zebruz.
14 October 1939	The second World War-German submarine U-47 sank in the Torpedo and the British Royal Navy warship HMS drowned in Royal Oak, while later immersed in scop flow in Scotland's orche.
16 February 1940	Second World War-The British Royal Navy boarded and captured the German tanker Altmark and freed 299 captured British sailors.
23 March 2007	Iranian military personnel seized 15 British Royal Navy personnel from HMS Cornwall, claiming that the British ship had ventured into Iran's territorial waters.