* May 13 – Beilby Porteus, English bishop and abolitionist ( b. 1731 )

* November 10 – Granville Sharp, English abolitionist ( d. 1813 )

Both girls began having their poems published as teenagers, and they eventually counted among their admirers Massachusetts poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier, New York Tribune newspaper editor Horace Greeley, and author Edgar Allan Poe, who pronounced Alice Cary's Pictures of Memory, " one of the most musically perfect lyrics in the English language.

In the 1840s, the American abolitionist and advocate of " nonresistance " Henry Clarke Wright, and his English follower

James Stephen ( 30 June 1758 – 10 October 1832 ) was the principal English lawyer associated with the abolitionist movement.

Thomas Clarkson ( 28 March 1760 – 26 September 1846 ), was an English abolitionist, and a leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire.

* George William Alexander ( 1802 – 1890 ), English banker, abolitionist and philanthropist

Richard Oastler ( 20 December 1789-22 August 1861 ) was an English labour reformer, " Tory radical ", and abolitionist.

In 2004, Capezzone came into light: he published his second book, Euroghost-Un fantasma si aggira per l ' Europa: l ' Europa ( English translation: Euroghost-A Ghost wanders through Europe: Europe itself ); he undertook a 54-days-last hunger strike ( with the Italian Radicals Treasurer, Rita Bernardini, and the death-penalty abolitionist organization Hands Off Cain President, Sergio D ' Elia ), asking to the Italian Parliament to pass a general pardon-law ; he wrote some op-ed articles for the Italian right-wing newspaper Libero and for The Washington Times.

The first known use of might makes right in the English language was in 1846 by the American pacifist and abolitionist Adin Ballou ( 1803 – 1890 ), who wrote, " But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust.

Thomas Pringle ( 5 January 1789 – 5 December 1834 ) was a Scottish writer, poet and abolitionist, known as the father of South African Poetry, the first successful English language poet and author to describe South Africa's scenery, native peoples, and living conditions.

Joseph Sturge ( 1793 – 14 May 1859 ), son of a farmer in Elberton, Gloucestershire, was an English Quaker, abolitionist and activist.

Davenport was born in Stamford, Connecticut, to Amzi Benedict Davenport, an abolitionist of puritan stock, and his wife Jane Joralemon Dimon ( of English, Dutch and Italian ancestry ).

* Robert Halley ( 1796-1876 ), English Congregationalist minister and abolitionist

Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet ( 7 April 1786 – 19 February 1845 ) was an English Member of Parliament, brewer, abolitionist and social reformer.

A young slave named Olaudah Equiano, who would eventually become a prominent abolitionist in England, participated in the engagement on the English side.

Thomas Henry Huxley, an English biologist, coined the word agnostic in 1869.

The earliest recorded use of this term in English is in Thomas Hacket's 1568 translation of André Thévet's book on France Antarctique ; Thévet himself had referred to the natives as Ameriques.

The earliest recorded use of this term in English dates to 1648, in Thomas Gage's The English-American: A New Survet of the West Indies.

The first recorded English antitrinitarian was John Assheton who was forced to recant before Thomas Cranmer in 1548.

* 1630 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician ( d. 1673 )

The Baptist movement originated with Thomas Helwys, who left his mentor John Smyth ( who had moved into shared belief and other distinctives of the Dutch Waterlander Mennonites of Amsterdam ) and returned to London to start the first English Baptist Church in 1611.

Later General Baptists such as John Griffith, Samuel Loveday, and Thomas Grantham defended a Reformed Arminian theology that reflected more the Arminianism of Arminius than that of the later Remonstrants or the English Arminianism of Arminian Puritans like John Goodwin or Anglican Arminians such as Jeremy Taylor and Henry Hammond.

* 1571 – Thomas Lupo, English composer and viol player ( d. 1627 )

* 1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's " The Lost Chord ", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.

* 1785 – Thomas De Quincey, English author ( d. 1859 )

* 1776 – Thomas Bladen Capel English navy admiral ( d. 1853 )

* 1580 – Thomas Middleton, English dramatist ( d. 1627 )

* 1816 – Thomas Hazlehurst, English chapel builder ( d. 1876 )

Notable American restaurant chefs include Thomas Keller, Charlie Trotter, Grant Achatz, Alfred Portale, Paul Prudhomme, Paul Bertolli, Frank Stitt, Alice Waters, and celebrity chefs like Mario Batali, Alton Brown, Emeril Lagasse, Cat Cora, Michael Symon, Bobby Flay, Ina Garten, Todd English, Sandra Lee, and Paula Deen.

It was consecrated in 1197 with a dedication to the deceased Saint Thomas Becket, whom the king had met at the English court.

An early professed empiricist, Thomas Hobbes, known as an eccentric denizen of the court of Charles II of England ( an " old bear "), published in 1651 Leviathan, a political treatise written during the English civil war, containing an early manifesto in English of rationalism.

In the 18th century there were increasing numbers of such collections, including Thomas D ' Urfey's Wit and Mirth: or, Pills to Purge Melancholy ( 1719 – 20 ) and Bishop Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry ( 1765 ).

Thomas Carlyle translated Goethe ’ s novel into English, and after its publication in 1824, many British authors wrote novels inspired by it.

Haydn portrait by Thomas Hardy ( English painter ) | Thomas Hardy, 1792

Hedonism, for example, teaches that this feeling is pleasure — either one's own, as in egoism ( the 17th-century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes ), or everyone's, as in universalistic hedonism, or utilitarianism ( the 19th-century English philosophers Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Henry Sidgwick ), with its formula of the " greatest pleasure of the greatest number.

Thomas G. Tucker suggests a root in " cry " words and refers to English plaint, plaintiff, and so on.

Forty years ago an English writer, W. L. George, dealt with this subject in Eddies of the Day, and said, as an example, that ' Saint George for Merry England ' would not start a spirit half so quickly as ' Strike frog-eating Frenchmen dead ' ''!!

Sadie Hawkins Day and double whammy are two terms attributed to Al Capp that have entered the English language.

This special, set in the English Civil War, was shown as part of Comic Relief's Red Nose Day on Friday 5 February 1988.

This custom is linked to an older English tradition: Since they would have to wait on their masters on Christmas Day, the servants of the wealthy were allowed the next day to visit their families.

On Boxing Day 1963, Craven Cottage was the venue of the fastest hat-trick in the history of the English football league, which was completed in less than three minutes, by Graham Leggat.

The festival is referred to in English by a variety of different names including Easter Day, Easter Sunday, Resurrection Day and Resurrection Sunday.

In 1586 Angel Day dedicated The English Secretary, the first epistolary manual for writing model letters in English, to Oxford, and William Webbe praised him as " most excellent among the rest " of ourt poets in his Discourse of English Poetry.

J. Edgar Hoover was born on New Year's Day 1895 in Washington, D. C., to Anna Marie ( née Scheitlin ; 1860 – 1938 ), who was of German Swiss descent, and Dick Naylor Hoover, Sr. ( 1856 – 1921 ), of English and German ancestry.

* English Heathenism-Roots of May Day in English heathenism.

* Round-up of 2009 May Day marches-Radio France Internationale in English

* 1002 – English king Æthelred II orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice's Day massacre.

* Present Day English

Crowe helped to organise a rugby league game that took place in Jacksonville, Florida between the South Sydney Rabbitohs and the English Super League champions Leeds Rhinos on 26 January 2008 ( Australia Day ).

Morris, having passed his finals in the previous term, was entered as a pupil at the office of George Edmund Street, one of the leading English Gothic revival architects who had his headquarters in Oxford as architect to the diocese ; and on New Year's Day the first issue of the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine appeared.

** John Day, English dramatist ( d. 1640 )

* November 13 – St. Brice's Day massacre: English king Æthelred the Unready orders all Danes in England killed.

* July 25 ( julian calendar )/ August 4 ( gregorian calendar ) – Second Anglo-Dutch War: English fleet defeats the Dutch under Michiel de Ruyter at St. James's Day Battle.

* 2007: Hayley Westenra's album Celtic Treasure contains an English language translation of the aria " Un bel dì vedremo " under the title " One Fine Day ".

Today, Shrove Tuesday is celebrated as Pancake Day, but little else of the Lent-related Shrovetide survived the 16th-century English Reformation.

* July 23 – John Day, English Protestant printer ( b. 1522 )

* April 23 ( Saint George's Day ) – English Civil War: One hundred and fifty Irish soldiers bound for service with King Charles I of England are captured at sea by Parliamentarians and killed at Pembroke in Wales.