* 1661 – Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and statesman ( d. 1715 )

The establishment of the bank was devised by Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, in 1694, to the plan which had been proposed by William Paterson three years before, but had not been acted upon.

Charles further allied himself with controversial ecclesiastic figures, such as Richard Montagu and William Laud, whom Charles appointed Archbishop of Canterbury.

Mary Wortley Montagu, by Charles Jervas, after 1716

* April 16 – Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and statesman ( d. 1715 )

* May 19 – Charles Montagu, English Chancellor of the Exchequer ( b. 1661 )

She helped to popularise the practice of variolation ( an early type of immunisation ), which had been witnessed by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Charles Maitland in Constantinople.

The film stars Bette Davis and Charles Boyer with Barbara O ' Neil, Jeffrey Lynn, Virginia Weidler, Helen Westley, Walter Hampden, Henry Daniell, Harry Davenport, George Coulouris, Montagu Love, Janet Beecher and June Lockhart.

Charles Edward Montagu, the 4th Earl who was created 1st Duke of Manchester in 1719, had many works of reconstruction carried out between 1690 and 1720.

Charles Montagu was born in Horton, Northamptonshire, the son of George Montagu, fifth son of 1st Earl of Manchester.

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Dryden, Lord Somers and Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax took an interest in Addison's work and obtained for him a pension of £ 300 to enable him travel to Europe with a view to diplomatic employment, all the time writing and studying politics.

This view commended itself to Charles I and his episcopal advisers ; even if Hall, with John Davenant and Thomas Morton, was considered a likely die-hard by Richard Montagu if it ever came to reunification with the Catholic Church.

Montagu accompanied Prince Charles during his 1623 trip to Habsburg Spain in pursuit of the Spanish Match.

Thanks to Montagu, Verro made his English debut working for aristocrats such as the 1st Earl of Arlington ( Euston Hall and Arlington House, now destroyed ) and the 1st Duke of Lauderdale ( Ham House, now a property of The National Trust ), and rapidly acquired the royal patronage of Charles II.

* Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax ( 1661 – 1715 ), English poet and statesman

During the Civil War, prior to the siege of Raglan Castle in 1645, King Charles I visited Abergavenny and presided in person over the trial of Sir Trefor Williams, 1st Baronet of Llangibby, a Royalist who changed sides, and other Parliamentarians.

On the battlefield, it is probably fair to say, Charles was comparable in skill and style to Sir Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington-quite conservative and yet exceedingly competent.

During the Anglo-French War ( 1627 – 1629 ), under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord Ochiltree planted a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander ’ s son, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling established the first incarnation of “ New Scotland ” at Port Royal.

At the behest of Charles and Buckingham, James assented to the impeachment of the Lord Treasurer, Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, by the House of Commons, who quickly fell in much the same manner as Bacon had.

Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, Kt FRS ( 14 November 1797 – 22 February 1875 ) was a British lawyer and the foremost geologist of his day.

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* Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford, Marshal of the Royal Air Force

The 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment ( 1 < sup > e </ sup > Régiment Étranger Parachutiste, 1 < sup > e </ sup > REP ) was established in 1955 during the Algerian War and disbanded in April 1961 as the entire regiment rose against the French government of Charles de Gaulle ( Algiers Putsch ), in protest against moves to negotiate an end to the Algerian War and providing Algeria's independence from France.

* Nicholl, Charles, " The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street " ( 2007 ) 1st edition ; Chapter 27, " A handfasting ".

* 1660 – Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English statesman ( d. 1718 )

In 1806, he was appointed commander-in-chief of India ( to succeed Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, who had died shortly after arriving in India.

* 1670 – Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier ( d. 1726 )

* 1515 – Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk are officially married at Greenwich.

Mary's uncle was King Charles II, who ruled the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland ; her maternal grandfather, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, served for a lengthy period as Charles's chief advisor.

* 1726 – Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, English sailor and politician ( d. 1813 )

* 1709 – Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, English mistress of Charles II of England ( b. 1640 )

In the resulting case, Entick v. Carrington ( 1765 ), Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden ruled that the search and seizure was unlawful as the warrant authorized the seizure of all of Entick's papers, not just the criminal ones and the warrant lacked probable cause to even justify the search.

* December 14 – Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English statesman ( b. 1536 )

** Charles Robberts Swart 1st State President of South Africa ( b. 1894 )

** Sir Charles Solomon Henry, 1st Baronet, Australian businessman ( d. 1919 )

* April 18 – Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain ( b. 1714 )

* June 17 – Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, English sailor and politician ( b. 1726 )