England's crushing defeat by France, the dominant naval power, in naval engagements culminating in the 1690 Battle of Beachy Head, became the catalyst for England's rebuilding itself as a global power.

This still stands as England's worst ever defeat.

The longbow corps saw particularly heavy casualties at the Battle of Patay and this loss contributed to England's eventual defeat in that war.

* March 26 – Henry I of England's forces defeat Norman rebels at Bourgtheroulde.

Winterbottom presided over the 6-3 loss to Hungary in 1953, England's first home defeat to a team from mainland Europe, and also over the 7-1 defeat to the same opposition the following year: England's worst ever international result.

Although it was England's first ever defeat in a World Cup or European Championship qualifying match under Eriksson, it brought his position under unprecedented pressure and he was criticized, both by some fans and by BBC commentators, for his alleged lack of charisma and tactical awareness.

Just a year after England's penalty shoot-out defeat in 1990, Waddle and Marseille reached the 1991 European Cup Final.

Following England's heavy defeat to Germany in the second round of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Waddle criticised the English Football Association, claiming: " The FA sit on their backsides and do nothing tournament after tournament after tournament.

Gareth Southgate cited Duncan Smith when he remarked after England's 2002 World Cup quarter-final defeat against Brazil that " we were expecting Winston Churchill and instead we got Iain Duncan Smith.

It was only the second Test defeat Snow had seen since he had become and England regular in 1966 and ended England's run of 27 Tests without loss.

* 6 – 8 September — the first ever Test match played in England sees England defeat Australia at The Oval by 5 wickets after W G Grace scores England's first Test century.

Greaves won his first England cap on 17 May 1959 against Peru, scoring England's only goal in a 4-1 defeat.

This remains the record defeat for the team, and also England's largest winning margin.

It wasn't until 1980 that Mariner won a sixth England cap – almost exactly two years after his fifth – and he scored England's goal in a surprising 4 – 1 defeat against Wales at Wrexham.

He didn't play in the opening 1 – 1 draw versus Belgium in Turin but came on as a sub in the remaining two group matches – a defeat against Italy and a victory over Spain, which ensured England's elimination from the competition.

The dispute led to Father Rale's War ( 1722 – 1725 ), which ended with the defeat of Father Rale at Norridgewock, the retreat of the native population from the Kennebec and Penobscot Rivers, and New England's dominion over Maine.

" England's bowlers bowled out West Indies a second time and England scored the required runs to record a series-levelling victory, West Indies ' first defeat in Jamaica in a Test.

Hoddle was one of the England players left behind by Diego Maradona as he burst from inside his own half to score his second goal in England's 2 – 1 defeat.

Following this success, Taylor accepted an offer to take over the England national football team from Bobby Robson, who left the job after England's world cup semi-final defeat to Germany.

England's first game after Euro 92 ended in a 1 – 0 defeat to Spain in a friendly, The Sun depicted Taylor as a " Spanish onion ".

When Ted Peate, England's last batsman, came to the crease, his side needed just ten runs to win, but Peate managed only two before he was bowled by Harry Boyle.

England managed to stay in contention until the deciding final Test at The Oval, but yet another double hundred by Bradman, and 7 / 92 by Percy Hornibrook in England's second innings, enabled Australia to win by an innings and take the series 2 – 1.

" Similarly a systematic and coherent explanation of balance of trade was made public through Thomas Mun's c1630 " England's treasure by forraign trade, or, The balance of our forraign trade is the rule of our treasure "

The Declaration was part of a broader diplomatic campaign which sought to assert Scotland's position as an independent kingdom, rather than being a feudal land controlled by England's Norman kings, as well as lift the excommunication of Robert the Bruce.

The Pope had recognised Edward I of England's claim to overlordship of Scotland in 1305 and Bruce was excommunicated by the Pope for murdering John Comyn before the altar in Greyfriars Church in Dumfries in 1306.

Although Walter Winterbottom was appointed as England's first ever full-time manager in 1946, the team was still picked by a committee until Alf Ramsey took over in 1963.

They next went on to achieve their second best result in the 1990 World Cup by finishing fourth – losing again to West Germany in a semi-final finishing 1 – 1 after extra time, then 3 – 4 in England's first penalty shoot-out.

It had a " golden age " in the United Kingdom in the early 1920s when crowds reached 50, 000 at some matches ; this was stopped on 5 December 1921 when England's Football Association voted to ban the game from grounds used by its member clubs.

In his Jack and the Beanstalk ( 1902 ) and Life of an American Fireman he followed earlier films by France's Georges Méliès and members of England's Brighton School, such as James Williamson.

La Fontaine's model was subsequently emulated by England's John Gay ( 1685 – 1732 ); Poland's Ignacy Krasicki ( 1735 – 1801 ); Italy's Lorenzo Pignotti ( 1739 – 1812 ) and Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi ( 1754 – 1827 ); Serbia's Dositej Obradović ( 1742 – 1811 ); Spain's Félix María de Samaniego ( 1745 – 1801 ) and Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa ( 1750 – 1791 ); France's Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian ( 1755 – 94 ); and Russia's Ivan Krylov ( 1769 – 1844 ).

Conspiracies began to surface that Banks had been " nobbled " by someone in England's hotel and that his food had been somehow spiked.

Shilton became England's number one and was also signed by Stoke City shortly afterwards from Leicester City ( the same club Stoke had bought Banks from ) to take over from Banks in goal at the Victoria Ground.

Advances in technology have never conclusively proved that the ball crossed the line ; on the contrary, in 1995 the Sunday Times reported that image analysis by researchers at Oxford University had concluded that the whole of the ball did not cross the goal-line, and so a goal should not have been awarded ( Computer blows whistle on England's 1966 World Cup win by Adam Jones and John Davison, 23 July 1995 ).

There is still no consensus ; what does seem to be in agreement however is that the bulk of England's contemporary native population was already in place by the beginning of written history in this part of the world.

The treaty negotiated by England's envoy after a nine-hour bombardment of Algiers resulted in a treaty on 24 September 1816.

He was raised in various New England states where he was greatly influenced by New England's musical culture.

When he returned to England, John faced a rebellion by many of his barons, who were unhappy with his fiscal policies and his treatment of many of England's most powerful nobles.

A systematic and coherent explanation of balance of trade was made public through Thomas Mun's argument England's Treasure by Forraign Trade, or the Balance of our Forraign Trade is The Rule of Our Treasure.

In those days, many members of England's established church feared that new doctrines promulgated by the Methodists, such as the necessity of a new birth for salvation, of justification by faith, and of the constant and sustained action of the Holy Spirit upon the believer's soul, would produce ill effects upon weak minds.

By 1653, both France and Spain had recognised England's new government.

* 1214 – Battle of Bouvines: Philip II of France decisively defeats Imperial, English and Flemish armies, effectively ending John of England's Angevin Empire.

In 1204, during the reign of England's King John, mainland Normandy was taken from England by France under Philip II of France.

Cromwell and the New Model Foreign Policy: England's Policy toward France, 1649 – 1658 University of California Press, ISBN 0-520-02281-5

This position changed in 1689 when Leopold secured William III of England's support to claim the undivided Spanish Empire in return for Leopold's aid against France in the War of the Grand Alliance ( 1688 – 1697 ).

During this period, Anne Boleyn did indeed play an important role in England's international position by solidifying an alliance with France.

* John Balliol, King of Scotland, decides to refuse King Edward I of England's demands for support in a planned invasion of France, and instead informs the French of Edward's plans and negotiates the Auld Alliance with France and Norway.

Although Louis took Maastricht and William's attack against Charleroi failed, Lieutenant-Admiral Michiel de Ruyter defeated the Anglo-French fleet three times, forcing Charles to end England's involvement by the Treaty of Westminster ; after 1673, France slowly withdrew from Dutch territory ( with the exception of Maastricht ), while making gains elsewhere.

But as Spanish power waned toward the end of the 17th century, the buccaneers ' attacks began to disrupt France and England's merchant traffic with Spanish America.

For the remainder of his life John of Gaunt occupied the role of valued counsellor of the King and loyal supporter of the Crown, and was one of England's principal negotiators in the diplomatic exchanges with France that led to the Truce of Leulingham in 1396.

Normandy came virtually under English control, but a decision was made to focus on northern France, leaving Normandy under the control of England's vassal allies instead.

Under the Treaty of Troyes of 1420, England's Henry V became regent of France.

Periodic assaults from Spain and France, who still contested England's claims to the region, were combined with resistance from Native Americans, as well as pirate raids.

England's Royal Navy joined France in its attack on the Republic, but was frustrated in its attempts to blockade the Dutch coast by four strategic victories by Lieutenant-Admiral Michiel de Ruyter.

England's General Post Office developed a system using the Ceefax / ORACLE standard, launching it as Prestel, while France prepared the first steps for its ultimately very successful Minitel system, using a rival display standard called Antiope.

Historically, the main British naval bases were located near the English Channel to better face England's old enemies, France, Spain, and the Netherlands.

Elizabeth I of England's ambassador to France at that time, Sir Francis Walsingham, barely escaped with his life.

He had always believed that England's power depended upon her wealth, her wealth upon her commerce, and her commerce upon the freedom of the seas and the checking of the power of France and Spain ".

The war had profited John and Sarah Churchill, and the Tory ministry sought to end it by withdrawing from all England's alliances and negotiating directly with France.

Worcester fought against England's traditional enemy France in the Hundred Years ' War, and then served in various important governing posts in English-controlled France, as Ambassador, Seneschal and as an Admiral.