* 2003 – The highest temperature ever recorded in the United Kingdom – in Kent, England.

The Channel Tunnel (; also referred to as the Chunnel ) is a undersea rail tunnel linking Folkestone, Kent, in the United Kingdom with Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais, near Calais in northern France beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover.

" It has also been implied, especially in the ' alternate future ' story Kingdom Come, that the Clark Kent persona is symbolic of the values taught to him by his wholesome Midwestern parents, the values he holds most dear: his instinctive knowledge of right and wrong that allows him to adopt his Superman persona, without being consumed by the moral implications of his actions ; Superman is the means through which he can bring this example to the world.

The kingdom was bounded to the north by the River Stour and the Kingdom of East Anglia, to the south by the River Thames and Kent, to the east lay the North Sea and to the west Mercia.

For a brief period in the 8th century, the Kingdom of Essex controlled what is now Kent.

* Eadwig of England, King from 955 until 957, king of only Wessex and Kingdom of Kent from 957 until his death on 1 October 959.

In July 2002, a 14-week-old baby was attacked in a house in Dartford, Kent, United Kingdom.

From the 6th century AD until 771, the area around modern-day Hastings, as the territory of the Haestingas tribe, considered itself to be a separate Kingdom from the surrounding Kingdoms of Suth Saxe (" South Saxons ", i. e. Sussex ) and Kent, and attempted to retain its separate cultural identity until the 11th century.

Easton's firm, inherited by his son James ( 1796 – 1871 ), grew during the nineteenth century to become one of the more important engineering manufacturers in the United Kingdom, with a large works at Erith, Kent.

Hengist, through his son ( who varies by source ), is traditionally listed as the founder of the Kingdom of Kent.

* University of Kent in the United Kingdom

* September 22 – 1989 Deal barracks bombing: An IRA bomb explodes at the Royal Marine School of Music in Deal, Kent, United Kingdom, leaving 11 dead and 22 injured.

* Sandwich, Kent, England, United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom, ducal titles which have been given within the royal family include Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Lancaster, Duke of Clarence, Duke of York, Duke of Gloucester, Duke of Bedford, Duke of Cumberland, Duke of Cambridge, Duke of Rothesay, Duke of Albany, Duke of Ross, Duke of Edinburgh, Duke of Kent, Duke of Sussex, and Duke of Connaught and Strathearn.

Kent is a county in South East England, centre of the former Kingdom of Kent.

* Kingdom of Kent

According to Bede, some bishops and other representatives of the nearest province of the Britons met Augustine at a location at the border of the Kingdom of Kent, which was thereafter known as Augustine's Oak.

Oswiu's first recorded action as king of Bernicia was to strengthen his position, and perhaps his claims to Deira, by marrying Edwin's daughter Eanflæd, then in exile in the Kingdom of Kent.

* Fort Pitt, Kent, in the United Kingdom

* Margate, Kent, a coastal resort on the Eastern coast of the county of Kent in the district of Thanet in the United Kingdom

A late 7th-century source, the Tribal Hidage, lists the peoples south of the Humber river ; among the largest groups of peoples are the West Saxons ( later Wessex ), the East Angles and Mercians ( later the Kingdom of Mercia ), and the Kingdom of Kent.

Forgiveness is the door through which a person must pass to enter the Kingdom of God.

Cultural anthropology is also called socio-cultural anthropology or social anthropology ( especially in the United Kingdom ).

Aberdeen is a city in Scotland, United Kingdom.

An animal is a taxonomic member of the Kingdom Animalia.

* 1963 – The Bristol Bus Boycott is held in Bristol to protest the Bristol Omnibus Company's refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom.

* 1814 – The Convention of London, a treaty between the United Kingdom and the United Provinces, is signed in London, England.

The series alternates between the United Kingdom and Australia, and within each country each of the usually five matches is held at a different cricket ground.

In the United Kingdom and other countries, a quantity surveyor is often part of the team to provide cost consulting.

* 1800 – The Acts of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Belief through faith is the condition for entrance into the Kingdom of God ; unbelief is the condition for exit from the Kingdom of God – not a lack of good works.

* 1483 – Gran Canaria, the main island of the Canary Islands is conquered by the Kingdom of Castile.

In the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada, corporal punishment administered to children by their parent or legal guardian is not legally considered to be assault unless it is deemed to be excessive or unreasonable.

It is also known as the " Glorious Twelfth " in the United Kingdom, as it marks the traditional start of the grouse shooting season.

In 868, Alfred is recorded as fighting beside Æthelred in an unsuccessful attempt to keep the invading Danes led by Ivar the Boneless out of the adjoining Kingdom of Mercia.

, the acre is not used officially in the United Kingdom.

Nonetheless he is an interesting primary source for the events of the years 1190 – 1192 in the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

In total Carnegie funded some 3, 000 libraries, located in 47 US states, and also in Canada, the United Kingdom, what is now the Republic of Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, the West Indies, and Fiji.

Astronomer Royal is a senior post in the Royal Households of the United Kingdom.

One unit of alcohol is defined as 10 millilitres in the United Kingdom, and as 10 grams ( 12. 7 ml ) in Australia.

But Saddam embraced Islamic rhetoric and attacked Saudi Arabia, his enemy in the war, for violating Islamic unity and its role as custodian of the two holy cities by allowing non-Muslims on its soil ( traditional Muslim belief holds that non-Muslims must not be allowed on the Arabian peninsula ), and he also accused the Kingdom of being a puppet of the west.

In 1663 in retaliation for the attack led by the Corsican Guard on the attendants of the Duc de Créqui, the ambassador of Louis XIV in Rome, he attacked and seized Avignon, which at the time was considered an important and integral part of the French Kingdom by the provincial Parliament of Provence.

Basil II returned in triumph to Constantinople, then promptly went east and attacked the Georgian Kingdom of Tao-Klarjeti, and later secured the annexation of the sub-kingdoms of Armenia ( and a promise to have its capital and surrounding regions to be willed to Byzantium following the death of its king Hovhannes-Smbat ).

Mir Muhammad Shah son of Sultan Shah escaped and retired to Tang i Nau from whence later he attacked Faizabad, put to death his youngest brother Nasarullah Khan Chief of that place under Government of Kabul, and took the Kingdom.

* 2012: On February 25, an extreme dust storm attacked Riyadh in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where it became totally dark at only 4: 00 P. M. local time.

The following year Louis attacked his sons ' Kingdoms, stripped Lothar of his Imperial title and granted the Kingdom of Italy to Charles.

When this request was denied, Agaja attacked and quickly took over the Kingdom of Whydah leading to the displacement, slaughter, and enslavement of much of the population.

Majorian then attacked the Burgundian Kingdom, defeating them at the Siege of Lugdunum, expelling them from the Rhone valley and reducing them to federate status.

Together they attacked the Province of Meath, where the former High King Máel Sechnaill sought Brian's help to defend his Kingdom.

Diomedes attacked and ceded the Kingdom, slaying all the traitors except Thersites, Onchestus ( who escaped to Peloponnesus ) and Agrius ( who killed himself ) restoring his grandfather to the throne.

Between 645 and 1097, the community was attacked many times by raiders, including the Vikings, however it was of such note as both a religious and intellectual centre that King Alfred summoned help from the monastic community at St David's in rebuilding the intellectual life of the Kingdom of Wessex.

* In 2010, a gay man from Cameroon, Africa was granted asylum in the United Kingdom after reporting that he had been attacked by an angry mob in Cameroon after they saw him kissing his male partner.

Later in his reign, probably between 613 and 616, Æthelfrith attacked the Kingdom of Powys and defeated its army in a battle at Chester, in which the Powysian king Selyf Sarffgadau was killed, along with another king called Cetula, who was probably Cadwal Crysban of Rhôs.

The Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ( which possessed much of the Ukraine at the time ) were attacked in 1487 – 1491 by the remnant of the Golden Horde.

During the reign of Dharma Raja, Marthanda Varma's successor, Tipu Sultan, the de facto ruler of Kingdom of Mysore and the son of Hyder Ali attacked Travancore as a part of the Mysorean invasion of Kerala ; this lead to the famous Third Anglo-Mysore War, as Travancore had already allied with the British to seek protection from the potent assault from Tippu.

According to the annals record, at the time Parameswara founded Malacca, the country was often attacked by the old enemies Majapahit and the rivals from northern area of Malacca, Ayutthaya Kingdom.

In 1421, Egypt was attacked by the Kingdom of Cyprus, but the Egyptians forced the Cypriotes to acknowledge the suzerainty of the Egyptian sultan Barsbay.

Since the 7th century, Tuyuhun Kingdom was attacked by both the Tibetan Empire and Tang Dynasty as both of them sought control over trade routes.

However, during 1750-60 Hyder Ali, the Sultan of Mysore, attacked Thrissur and became tributary of the Kingdom of Mysore.

In the year 990, an army from Kingdom of Medang in Java attacked Srivijaya.

There he killed the governor of the Tumasik Thai nationals, and when the Thai army attacked Tumasik, Parameswara and his followers moved to Malacca in the Malay Peninsula, and established the Kingdom of Malacca.

George Cruikshank ( 1792 – 1878, British ) created political prints that attacked the royal family and leading politicians ( in 1820 he received a royal bribe of £ 100 for a pledge " not to caricature His Majesty ( George III of the United Kingdom ) in any immoral situation.

In 1376 the Navarrese Company Louis of Évreux, Duke of Durazzo who had gained the rights on the Kingdom of Albania from his second wife, attacked and conquered the city, but in 1383, Karl Topia took once again control of the city.