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* 1810 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.

Other awards for excellence in architecture are given by national professional associations such as the American Institute of Architects ( AIA ), the Royal Institute of British Architects ( RIBA ), the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada ( RAIC ) and the Institute of Architects Bangladesh ( IAB ).

Architects in the UK who have made contributions to the profession through design excellence or architectural education, or have in some other way advanced the profession, might until 1971 be elected Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects and can write FRIBA after their name if they feel so inclined.

Although Collins used it as a catharsis for her opposition to the Vietnam War, two years after her rendition, the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, senior Scottish regiment of the British Army, recorded an instrumental version featuring a bagpipe soloist accompanied by a pipe and drum band.

* 1781 – American Revolutionary War: British and French ships clash in the Battle of Fort Royal off the coast of Martinique.

*, a British Royal Navy ship.

* 1833 – The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 receives Royal Assent, abolishing slavery through most the British Empire.

* 1918 – World War I: The British Royal Navy makes a raid in an attempt to neutralise the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge.

Category: Positions within the British Royal Household

Aalto's awards included the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture from the Royal Institute of British Architects ( 1957 ) and the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects ( 1963 ).

Sir Andrew John Wiles, KBE, FRS ( born 11 April 1953 ) is a British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford University, specializing in number theory.

*, a prestigious ship name in the British Royal Navy, often the name of the Fleet Flagship, has been given to five ships

During the turn of the 20th century British Israelites carried out some excavations of the Hill of Tara in Ireland looking for the Ark of the Covenant – the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland campaigned successfully to have them stopped before they destroyed the hill.

The first ironclad battleship, with iron armour over a wooden hull, La Gloire, was launched by the French Navy in 1859 ; she prompted the British Royal Navy to build a counter.

At this time, Lord Sandwich, together with the President of the Royal Society, Sir Joseph Banks, was advocating establishment of a British colony in New South Wales.

In the year 1893, during rule of Amir Abdur Rahman Khan, a Royal Commission for setting up of Boundary between Afghanistan and British Governed India was set up to negotiate terms with the British, for the agreeing to the Durand line, and the two parties camped at Parachinar, now part of FATA Pakistan, which is near Khost, Afghanistan.

In addition, the navy contracted in late 1994 to acquire four Type 22 British Royal Navy frigates and three River-class minesweepers for delivery in the 1995-97 period.

In 1796, during the French Revolution and three years after the declaration of war between France and Great Britain, Étienne-Gaspard Robert met with the French government and proposed the use of mirrors to burn the invading ships of the British Royal Navy.

After the First World War Montgomery commanded the 17th Battalion the Royal Fusiliers, a battalion in the British Army of the Rhine, before reverting to his substantive rank of captain ( brevet major ) in November 1919.

Although he still wore a standard British officer's cap on arrival in the desert, he briefly wore an Australian broad-brimmed hat before switching to wearing the black beret ( with the badge of the Royal Tank Regiment next to the British General Officer's badge ) for which he became notable.

* The Burrell affair-allegations about the behavior of the British Royal Family and their servants with possible constitutional implications.

Balmoral has been one of the residences of the British Royal Family since 1852, when it was purchased by Queen Victoria and her consort, Prince Albert.

* Balmoral tartan, a tartan pattern worn by the British Royal Family

Legend has it that there was a member of the British Royal Family onboard and that in gratitude for their bravery, King George III decreed that Caymanians should never be conscripted for war service and Parliament legislated that they should never be taxed.

The documentary stated that Mountbatten and other members of the British Royal Family supported the plot and were involved in its planning.

Works rivaling the British short in length did not appear until 1905, when Edwin Porter made How Jones Lost His Roll, and The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog.

See also List of honours of the British Royal Family by country

* British Royal Family

* Genealogy of the British Royal Family

* 1917 – King George V issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname Windsor.

The Family Way: The Boulting Brothers and British Film Culture.

* 1935 – Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, member of the British Royal Family

The term was used to designate the pre-Confederation British ruling classes of Upper Canada and Lower Canada, known as the Family Compact and the Château Clique, an elite within the governing classes, and often members within a section of society known as the United Empire Loyalists.

Two members of the British Royal Family have studied at Trinity and been awarded degrees as a result: Prince William of Gloucester and Edinburgh, who gained an MA in 1790, and Prince Charles, who was awarded a lower second class BA in 1970.

* List of Royal Warrant holders of the British Royal Family

* July 17 – King George V of the United Kingdom issues a proclamation, stating that thenceforth the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname Windsor, vice the Germanic bloodline of House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, which is an offshoot of the historic ( 800 + years ) House of Wettin.

** Princess Michael of Kent, member of the British Royal Family

* April 8 – Roger Chapman, British rock singer ( Family )

** Ric Grech, British rock bassist ( Family, Blind Faith, Traffic ) ( d. 1990 )

* November 2 – Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom, Member of the British Royal Family ( b. 1783 )

* November 2 – Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, member of the British Royal Family ( d. 1820 )

* August 7 – Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom, member of the British Royal Family ( d. 1810 )

* November 13 – Prince George William of Great Britain, member of the British Royal Family ( d. 1718 )

Later examples of the hyperreal approach pioneered by Galton and Simpson in some of their Hancock scripts include The Royle Family, Early Doors, Gavin & Stacey and The Office, as well as many British dramedies.

* Bryan Talbot's graphic novel Grandville is set in an alternate history in which France won the Napoleonic War, invaded Britain and guillotined the British Royal Family.