John Harrison ( 24 March 1693 – 24 March 1776 ) was a self-educated English carpenter and later a clockmaker.

| SHORT DESCRIPTION = English clockmaker, horologist and inventor of the marine chronometer

John Harrison, a self-educated English clockmaker then invented the marine chronometer, a key piece in solving the problem of accurately establishing longitude at sea, thus revolutionising and extending the possibility of safe long distance sea travel.

* 1776 – John Harrison, English clockmaker ( b. 1693 )

* February 18 – John Whitehurst, English clockmaker and scientist ( b. 1713 )

* April 10 – John Whitehurst, English clockmaker and scientist ( d. 1788 )

* March 24 – John Harrison, English clockmaker ( d. 1776 )

* George Graham ( clockmaker ) ( 1673 – 1751 ), English clockmaker and inventor

George Graham ( 7 July 1673 – 20 November 1751 ) was an English clockmaker, inventor, and geophysicist, and a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Graham was partner to the influential English clockmaker Thomas Tompion during the last few years of Tompion's life.

The English clockmaker William Clement is credited with the development of this form in 1670.

This is often erroneously credited to English clockmaker George Graham who introduced it around 1715 in his precision regulator clocks.

* John Ellicott ( clockmaker ) ( 1706 – 1772 ), an eminent English clock and watchmaker of the 18th century.

Benjamin Bowring, an English clockmaker, set up shop in that business, while his wife Charlotte established a dry goods store which evolved into a large department store on Water Street.

Thomas Henry Huxley, an English biologist, coined the word agnostic in 1869.

Azincourt is famous as being near the site of the battle fought on 25 October 1415 in which the army led by King Henry V of England defeated the forces led by Charles d ' Albret on behalf of Charles VI of France, which has gone down in English history as the Battle of Agincourt.

Later on, when he became king in 1509, Henry VIII is supposed to have commissioned an English translation of a Life of Henry V so that he could emulate him, on the grounds that he thought that launching a campaign against France would help him to impose himself on the European stage.

In 1513, Henry VIII conclusively crossed the English Channel and stopped at Azincourt.

* 1810 – Philip Henry Gosse, English naturalist ( d. 1888 )

* 1513 – Edmund de la Pole, Yorkist pretender to the English throne, is executed on the orders of Henry VIII.

* 1844 – James Henry Greathead, English engineer ( d. 1896 )

* 1910 – James Henry Govier, English painter ( d. 1974 )

* 1607 – English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.

Later General Baptists such as John Griffith, Samuel Loveday, and Thomas Grantham defended a Reformed Arminian theology that reflected more the Arminianism of Arminius than that of the later Remonstrants or the English Arminianism of Arminian Puritans like John Goodwin or Anglican Arminians such as Jeremy Taylor and Henry Hammond.

While Wesley freely made use of the term " Arminian ," he did not self-consciously root his soteriology in the theology of Arminius but was highly influenced by 17th-century English Arminianism and thinkers such as John Goodwin, Jeremy Taylor and Henry Hammond of the Anglican " Holy Living " school, and the Remonstrant Hugo Grotius.

* 1730 – Henry Clinton, English general ( d. 1795 )

* 1598 – Nine Years ' War: Battle of the Yellow Ford – Irish forces under Hugh O ' Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeat an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal.

* 1590 – Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier ( d. 1649 )

But John having died, the Pope and the English aristocracy changed their allegiance to his nine-year-old son, Henry, forcing the French and the Scots armies to return home.

Soon afterwards a claim for homage from Henry of England drew forth from Alexander a counter-claim to the northern English counties.

A threat of invasion by Henry in 1243 for a time interrupted the friendly relations between the two countries ; but the prompt action of Alexander in anticipating his attack, and the disinclination of the English barons for war, compelled him to make peace next year at Newcastle.

* 1958 – Lenny Henry, English comedian, actor, and writer

* 1890 – Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson, English pilot ( d. 1918 )

* 1599 – Henry Wallop, English statesman

During that time he took a great part in the campaigns and negotiations which led to the Treaty of Paris in 1259, under which King Henry III of England recognized his loss of continental territory to France ( including Normandy, Maine, Anjou, and Poitou ) in exchange for France withdrawing support from English rebels.

Henry Sweet incorrectly predicted in 1877 that within a century American English, Australian English and British English would be mutually unintelligible.

James Sully ( 3 March 1842 – 1 November 1923 ) was an English psychologist.

The Great War caused her to become a freighter in the English Channel area until she caught fire and was burnt out on Sully Island.

Matthew Sully, a prominent English Harlequin, tumbler and singer at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London, joined Ricketts ' company in the summer of 1795.

The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.

Not by the 11:00 sun which had spread a warmth around his spot of grass in the English Gardens and sent him off to sleep ; ;

She had arrived this morning and come straight to the English Gardens.

`` Dear girl '', Walter had finally said, `` he writes me that he is sleeping in the English Gardens ''.

`` No thank you very much '', Schaffner had answered in his accented English.

But both were high-spirited and vivacious, both had tempers to control, both loved languages, especially English and German, both were good teachers and wrote for publication.

Victor Berger, the panjandrum of Wisconsin Socialism and member of Congress, had asked Paula Steichen to translate some of his German editorials into English.

Next day a ship arrived with an English pilot, his leadsman, an English youth, and the first Hindu the Judsons and Newells had ever seen.

Already Trevelyan had begun to parallel his nineteenth-century Italian studies with several works on English figures of the same period.

In the spring of his second year at Harvard, Tom had been offered a job at Northwestern University as an instructor in the English Department.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

Bad relations between England and Flanders brought hard times to the shepherds scattered over the dales and downs as well as to the crowded Flemish cities, and while the English, so far, had done no more than grumble, Othon had seen what the discontent might lead to, for before he left the Low Countries the citizens of Ghent had risen in protest against the expense of supporting Edward and his troops, and the regular soldiers had found it unexpectedly difficult to put down the nasty little riot that ensued.

The value of place-names in the reconstruction of early English history had long been recognized.

But beginning, for all practical purposes, with Frederick Seebohm's English Village Community scholars have had to reckon with a theory involving institutional and agrarian continuity between Roman and Anglo-Saxon times which is completely at odds with the reigning concept of the Anglo-Saxon invasions.

His English friends, it said, had gone into training to keep up with him vocally and with his `` allegro movements around the luncheon table ''.

The entire exercise, Latin and English, is most suggestive of the kind of person Milton had become at Christ's during his undergraduate career ; ;

The English lady said she had to go to Vienna for a while.

The English schools preceded ours, and by the time we got into it they had learned a lot about the techniques of propaganda and its teaching.

When he had given the call a few moments thought, he went into the kitchen to ask Mrs. Yamata to prepare tea and sushi for the visitors, using the formal English china and the silver tea service which had been donated to the mission, then he went outside to inspect the grounds.