On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor.

Crick began a Ph. D. research project on measuring viscosity of water at high temperatures ( which he later described as " the dullest problem imaginable ") in the laboratory of physicist Edward Neville da Costa Andrade at University College, London, but with the outbreak of World War II ( in particular, an incident during the Battle of Britain when a bomb fell through the roof of the laboratory and destroyed his experimental apparatus ), Crick was deflected from a possible career in physics.

Fulton successfully destroyed demonstration targets in both France and Britain, but neither government was interested in purchasing the vessel and Fulton's experiments ceased in 1805.

* Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed.

Raeder argued strongly against Operation Sea Lion, the planned German invasion of Great Britain, as Weserübung had almost destroyed the German surface fleet.

Afterwards, in 1945, the USA and the USSR fought the Cold War ( 1945 – 1991 ) for control of the global European empires of France, Britain, the Netherlands, et al., which were politically destroyed by the WWII global warfare.

The Marxist view of the English Revolution suggests that the events of 1640 to 1660 in Britain was a bourgeois revolution in which the final section of English feudalism ( the state ) was destroyed by a bourgeois class ( and its supporters ) and replaced with a state ( and society ) which reflected the wider establishment of agrarian ( and later industrial ) capitalism.

They have probably more often survived as well ; most recorded crosses in Britain were destroyed or damaged by iconoclasm after the Reformation, and typically only sections of the shaft remain.

The bridge was probably destroyed along with the town in the Boudican revolt ( 60 AD ), but both were rebuilt and Londinium became the administrative and mercantile capital of Roman Britain.

In her subsequent cruise, Alabama captured or destroyed many Union merchant ships, as did other raiders also fitted out in Britain.

A major eruption of Tavurvur in 1994 destroyed the East New Britain provincial capital of Rabaul.

In November 1853, at the start of the Crimean War, in the Battle of Sinop, the Russians, under the command of Admiral Nakhimov, destroyed an Ottoman frigate squadron in Sinop, leading Britain and France to declare war on Russia.

The Cabinet believed that Italian offices might open peace negotiations and Churchill argued that playing for time was in Britain's interest, but Halifax was concerned that the British Expeditionary Force would be destroyed, and Britain would lose its last bargaining chip.

The original play is set in a depraved Italian court, but Cottrell Boyce's screenplay relocates it to a futuristic version of Liverpool in the year 2011, following the aftermath of a natural disaster which has destroyed the southern half of Great Britain.

( The old factory would be completely destroyed during the Battle of Britain.

In 1944, Mussolini urged Hitler to focus on destroying Britain, rather than the Soviet Union, as Mussolini claimed that it was Britain which had turned the conflict into a world war and that the British Empire must be destroyed in order for peace to come in Europe.

In Britain, the capture of these two significant agents had destroyed much of their network operating in the Netherlands, and left London feeling uncertain to the extent of knowledge that had been gained by the German Security Services, fearing their entire espionage network throughout Western Europe may be incapacitated.

In parts of Britain, early hedges were destroyed to make way for the manorial open-field system.

As no mention of this or similar structures in the area is made in Julius Caesar's account of crossing the Thames nor by any other Roman author, it is presumed that the structure had been dismantled or destroyed prior to Caesar's expedition to Britain in 55 BC.

During the Battle of Britain, the Rochester factory was heavily bombed by the Luftwaffe, and several of the early-run Stirlings and other aircraft were destroyed.

Originally a German firm was commissioned to print the currency, but their newly printed batches of banknotes were destroyed after Britain successfully lobbied the German Government to halt the order.

En route to Britain, the Force visited Bear Island, destroyed the weather station there and evacuated the Norwegian personnel on 1 August.

His inspired leadership helped his small nation to survive the dangers and pitfalls ( the Zulu hegemony, the inward expantion of the voortrekkers and the designs of imperial Britain ) which destroyed other indigenous South African kingdoms during the 19th century

World War I destroyed many of Europe's empires and monarchies, and weakened Britain and France.

The last majority Liberal Government in Britain was elected in 1906.

In Britain the weekend may appear at the end of the week so the first day is Monday and the last day is Sunday.

The Great Britain team won the last MacRobertson International Croquet Shield tournament, which is the major international test tour trophy in association croquet.

In 1846 Douglass met with Thomas Clarkson, one of the last living British abolitionists, who had persuaded Parliament to abolish slavery in Great Britain and its colonies.

Statue commemorating the last breeding Great Auk in Britain, shot in 1813

General elections in Britain traditionally take place on a Thursday ; the last general election not on a Thursday was that of 1931.

* 1940: Great Britain under Winston Churchill become the last nation to hold out against the Nazis after winning the Battle of Britain

Rising sea-levels cut Britain off from the continent for the last time around 6500 BCE.

As one of his last acts, Severus tried to solve the problem of powerful and rebellious governors in Britain by dividing the province into Upper Britain and Lower Britain.

In Stalin's last year of life, one of his last major foreign policy initiatives was the 1952 Stalin Note for German reunification and Superpower disengagement from Central Europe, but Britain, France, and the United States viewed this with suspicion and rejected the offer.

However, poor harvests led to widespread revolt in Gaul, which forced Caesar to leave Britain for the last time.

Though Ribbentrop continued to argue that Britain and France were bluffing, both he and Hitler were prepared as a last resort to risk a general war by invading Poland.

There he repeated in a different form all that he had already said, for all the world as if he had a gramophone fixed in his brain ... When I took leave, he subjected me to an interminable handshake, meanwhile fixing his cold blue eyes on mine, and repeating almost word for word what he said to me on arrival ... I felt I should never be able to establish any human contact with this man " In early June 1940, when Mussolini informed Hitler that he at long last would enter the war on 10 June 1940, Hitler was most dismissive, in private calling Mussolini a cowardly opportunist who broke the terms of the Pact of Steel in September 1939 when the going looked rough, and was only entering the war in June 1940 after it was clear that France was beaten and it appeared that Britain would soon make peace.

Formally neutral and reluctant to become involved with the great powers except as a last resort, Kuwait turned to the United States, the Soviet Union and Britain for naval protection of its tanker fleet after twenty-one ships were attacked in the gulf since late 1986.

* 1839 – The Newport Rising: the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.

On the day of the general election, The Sun ran an " infamous " front page featuring Kinnock ( headline: ' If Kinnock wins today will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights ') that he blamed in his resignation speech for losing Labour the election.

The last link is supplied by Strabo, who says that an emporium on the island of Corbulo in the mouth of the Loire was associated with the Britain of Pytheas by Polybius.

Great Britain and its American colonies reformed in 1752, where Wednesday, 2 September 1752 was immediately followed by Thursday, 14 September 1752 ; they were joined by the last Protestant holdout, Sweden, on 1 March 1753.

Peine forte et dure was abolished in the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1772, although the last known actual use of the practice was in 1741.

Thus, the 2005 Ashes series was the last that Benaud commentated on in Britain.

On 15 April 1746, the day before the Battle of Culloden, at Dunrobin Castle, a party of the William Sutherland, 17th Earl of Sutherland ’ s militia conducted the last siege fought on the mainland of Great Britain against Jacobin members of clan MacLeod.