* 1650 – Colonel George Monck of the English Army forms Monck's Regiment of Foot, which will later become the Coldstream Guards.

The entries from the first few months are filled with news of General George Monck's march on London.

* August 23 – Colonel George Monck forms Monck's Regiment of Foot, forerunner of the Coldstream Guards.

However, George Monck's march south caused Lambert's army to disintegrate and he was imprisoned in the Tower of London in March 1660.

Monck took men from the regiments of George Fenwick and Sir Arthur Haselrig, five companies each, and on 23 August 1650 formed Monck's Regiment of Foot.

As a member of the Council of State, Cooper opposed the New Model Army's attempts to rule the country following the downfall of Richard Cromwell, and he encouraged Sir George Monck's march on London.

This secret Council of State came to see Sir George Monck, commander of the forces in Scotland as the best hope to restore the Rump, and Cooper and Haselrig met with Monck's commissioners, urging them to restore the Rump.

During the period which immediately preceded the Restoration he endeavoured to oppose George Monck's schemes, and desired Charles Fleetwood to forestall him and make terms with Charles, but in vain.

They had no idea that King Charles II would be restored by George Monck to the thrown and were entirely deceived by Monck's treachery to the republican cause.

His influence and authority had now disappeared, and all chance of regaining them vanished with General John Lambert's failure to stop General George Monck's army from reaching London in support of the English Restoration.

General George Monck's lead each party faction ( republican, military, and restoration ) to believe that he had declared for Parliament but keep his plans to himself until he had accomplished his purpose on what exactly that meant to him.

In December 1652, when George Monck's successor Richard Deane was recalled, Monck appointed Overton as Military Commander over all the English forces in the Western Highlands with the rank of Major-General.

In 1723 he edited The Life of General Monk ( London ), from the manuscript of Thomas Skinner, contributing a preface in vindication of George Monck's character.

He raises and leads his own volunteer cavalry regiment ( nicknamed the Unauthorized Regiment ) in the Second Mexican War, fighting alongside George Armstrong Custer to repulse the Anglo-Canadian army led by Charles George Gordon.

* February 14 – George Monck ’ s regiment becomes The Lord General's Regiment of Foot Guards ( which later becomes Coldstream Guards )

In late 1968, General Abrams met with Colonel George S. Patton IV-the son of World War II General Patton-who was the regimental commander of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment ( 11th ACR Blackhorse ), the only full regiment of cavalry in Vietnam.

** Colonel George Monck with his regiment crosses from Scotland to England at the village of Coldstream and begins his advance towards London in support of the English Restoration.

* February 3 – George Monck and his regiment arrive in London.

Commissioned a second lieutenant in a provincial artillery regiment, he spent the summer at Fort William Henry at the southern end of Lake George in New York as part of an abortive plan for the capture of Fort St. Frédéric.

* George Allen Gilreath ( 1834 – 1863 ), a captain in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War ; killed while commanding the regiment which advanced the farthest into enemy lines during Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Vance, a Virginian, had been a member of the regiment commanded by George Washington at the Braddock expedition during the French and Indian War.

Brevet Major General George A. Custer arrived in December to take charge of the new regiment.

And, at the head of it all, was the Prince of Wales, the future George IV, whose personal regiment this was.

It is the oldest regiment in the Regular Army in continuous active service, originating in Coldstream, Scotland in 1650 when General George Monck founded the regiment.

An ordinary soldier of the regiment is called a Guardsman, a designation granted by King George V after the First World War.

The origin of the Coldstream Guards lies in the English Civil War when Oliver Cromwell gave Colonel George Monck permission to form his own regiment as part of the New Model Army.

Behind Gibson's position, Colonel George Booth led a sortie from Nantwich by 600 musketeers which overcame Hunke's regiment and reached Acton churchyard, overrunning the Royalist artillery and wagon park.

One Royalist officer taken prisoner at Nantwich was Colonel George Monck ( in command of Michael Warren's regiment ), who later changed sides and was to play a prominent part in the Commonwealth of England and the Restoration.

In June 1885, the regiment was relocated to the South Cavalry Barracks at Aldershot, where the Prince of Wales ' eldest son, Prince Albert Victor, joined the regiment and thereafter the Prince of Wales and his other son, Prince George, became frequent visitors.

The diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles, King George VI's private secretary, published in 2006, recorded that both the regiment and Athlone had rejected him as incompetent and he fell out of a window when drunk and perished of hypothermia overnight.

In 1572 he joined an English regiment on active service in the Low Countries, where he met George Gascoigne and Thomas Churchyard.

The rock denotes the fact that the regiment was under the Command of General George Henry Thomas for the battle in which he earned his famous sobriquet: " The Rock of Chickamauga ".

Upon the announcement of his betrothal to Princess Victoria Louise in February 1913, Prince Ernest Augustus took an oath of loyalty to the German Emperor and accepted a commission as a cavalry captain and company commander in the Zieten – Hussars, a Prussian Army regiment in which his grandfather ( George V ) and great-grandfather ( Ernst August I ) had been colonels.

As a royal regiment, the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards is permitted to wear the Royal Stewart tartan, which was a privilege granted by HM King George VI, and is worn by the regiment's pipers.

* 1777 – American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Kernstown – Confederate General Jubal Early defeats Union troops led by General George Crook in an effort to keep them out of the Shenandoah Valley.

Kemp is also remembered alongside George Wallace and William Jennings Bryan for influencing history by changing the direction of presidential elections despite their defeats.

* 1747 – War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre.

** Glafcos Clerides defeats incumbent George Vasiliou in the Cypriot presidential election.

** U. S. presidential election, 1968: Republican challenger Richard M. Nixon defeats the Democratic candidate, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, and American Independent Party candidate George C. Wallace.

** U. S. presidential candidate George Herbert Walker Bush defeats Robert Dole in numerous Republican primaries and caucuses on " Super Tuesday ".

* November 7 – U. S. presidential election, 1972: Republican incumbent Richard Nixon defeats Democratic Senator George McGovern in a landslide ( the election had the lowest voter turnout since 1948, with only 55 percent of the electorate voting ).

* April 12 – Battle of the Saintes: A British fleet under Admiral Sir George Rodney defeats a French fleet under the Comte de Grasse in the West Indies.

* June 27 – Canadian-born boxer George Dixon defeats the British bantamweight champion in London, giving him claim to be the first black world champion in any sport.

** George Foreman defeats Joe Frazier to win the heavyweight world boxing championship.

* June 26 – American Civil War – Battle of Mechanicsville: Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats the troops of General George McClellan in the first of the Seven Days ' Battles.

* July 24 – American Civil War – The Second Battle of Kernstown: Confederate General Jubal Early defeats Union troops led by General George Crook in an effort to keep the Yankees out of the Shenandoah Valley.

* January 16 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of Cape St. Vincent: British Admiral Sir George Rodney defeats a Spanish fleet.

* January 3 – American Revolution – Battle of Princeton: American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis.

* George III of Georgia defeats a noble revolt and proclaims his daughter Tamar coregent.

* 21 August — John Morrissey defeats George Thompson in the 11th round at Mare Island, California and claims the Heavyweight Championship of America, which has been vacated by the now-retired Tom Hyer.

* March 17-Jimmy Young defeats George Foreman by a twelve round unanimous decision at the Roberto Clemente Coliseum, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

* April 7 – Al McCoy defeats George Chip with a surprise first round knockout in Brooklyn, New York, to take the World Middleweight Championship.

* American Men's Singles Championship – Ellsworth Vines ( USA ) defeats George Lott ( USA ) 7 – 9 6 – 3 9 – 7 7 – 5

* 1992-U. S. presidential election, 1992 ( Bill Clinton defeats President George H. W. Bush )

The wetlands helped allow the escape of the Continental Army under George Washington in 1776 after several defeats at the hands of the British army on the east side of the Hudson.

* Hanover is occupied by France, and King George signs the Convention of Klosterzeven, withdrawing support for Hanover, until Prussia defeats France and Austria at the Battle of Rossbach.

She is called " Santa Coca " ( Saint Coca ) or " Coca rabixa " ( Tailed Coca ) and if she defeats Saint George, by scaring the horse, there will be a bad year for the crops and famine, if the horse and Saint George win by cutting off one of her ears with earring and her tongue, the crops will be fertile.