* 1348 – The founding of the Order of the Garter by King Edward III is announced on St George's Day.

The last horsed regiment of the Indian Army ( other than the Viceregal Bodyguard and some Indian States Forces regiments ) was the 19th King George's Own Lancers which had its last mounted parade at Rawalpindi on 28 October 1939.

* 1952 – King George VI is buried in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.

" The Lord Mayor, Sheriffs and Aldermen of the City, treated their King with a collation under a tent, placed in St. George's Fields ; and five or six hundred citizens cloathed in coats of black velvet, and ( not improperly ) wearing chains about their necks, by an order of the Common Council, attended on the triumph of that day ;... and those who had been so often defeated in the field, and had contributed nothing either of bravery or policy to this change, in ordering the souldiery to ride with swords drawn through the city of London to White Hall, the Duke of York and Monk leading the way ; and intimating ( as was supposed ) a resolution to maintain that by force which had been obtained by fraud.

In 1346, after St. George's Night Uprising the Order bought the rest of Estonia from King Valdemar IV of Denmark.

After the Siege of Louisbourg ( 1745 ) during King George's War, the New Englanders also captured Île Saint-Jean ( Prince Edward Island ).

* The third French and Indian War, known as King George's War, breaks out at Port Royal, Nova Scotia.

Her ashes were placed in the tomb of her parents, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, in the King George VI Memorial Chapel in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, two months later.

* April 23 ( Saint George's Day ) – English Civil War: One hundred and fifty Irish soldiers bound for service with King Charles I of England are captured at sea by Parliamentarians and killed at Pembroke in Wales.

As there had already been a King George's War in the 1740s, British colonists named the second war in King George's reign after their opponents, and it became known as the French and Indian War.

The War of the Austrian Succession ( whose North American theater is known as King George's War ) formally ended in 1748 with the signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.

* French and Indian Wars ( article includes King William's War, Queen Anne's War, King George's War, and this war.

Prince George's County was named after Prince George of Denmark ( 1653 – 1708 ), husband of Queen Anne of Great Britain and brother of King Christian V of Denmark and Norway.

The King was displeased at Liberal attacks on the peers, including Lloyd George's Limehouse speech and Churchill's public demand for a general election ( for which Asquith apologised to the King's adviser Lord Knollys and rebuked Churchill at a Cabinet meeting ).

He was interred initially in the Royal Vault until transferred to the King George VI Memorial Chapel inside St. George's on 26 March 1969.

On the death of Victoria in 1901, George's father became King Edward VII, and George was made Prince of Wales.

Elizabeth was laid to rest in the same chantry as her husband King Edward IV in St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle.

Only a week after returning to Britain, May and George went to Norway for the coronation of George's brother-in-law and sister, King Haakon VII and Queen Maud.

As a List of Ladies of the Garter | Lady of the Garter, Alexandra's Royal Standard of the United Kingdom # Consorts of the British monarch | banner of arms hung in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, during her lifetime despite the objections of Garter Principal King of Arms, Sir Albert Woods.

During King George's War, approximately 36, 000 Americans served aboard privateers at one time or another.

Set in 1485 at the end of the British Middle Ages, the series is written as a secret history which contends that King Richard III won the Battle of Bosworth Field, only to be mistaken for someone else and murdered, and is succeeded by Richard IV ( Brian Blessed ), one of the Princes in the Tower.

The invasion was stopped decisively at the Battle of Flodden Field during which the King, many of his nobles, and a large number of ordinary troops were killed, commemorated by the song Flowers of the Forest.

* 1966 – The Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois.

* King Richard III of England ( 1452 – 1485 ), who was hanged by his successor King Henry VII following his death at the Battle of Bosworth Field.

Richard III ( 2 October 1452 – 22 August 1485 ) was King of England for two years, from 1483 until his death in 1485 during the Battle of Bosworth Field.

Capitalising on the unpopularity of King Richard III, his mother was able to forge an alliance with discontented Yorkists in support of her son, who landed in Pembrokeshire and defeated Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, proclaiming himself King Henry VII.

* June 7 – King Henry VIII of England and King Francis I of France meet at the famous Field of Cloth of Gold.

* September 9 – Battle of Flodden Field: King James IV of Scotland is defeated and killed by an English army under Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey.

* September 9 – King James IV of Scotland, Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll, Alexander Stewart ( Archbishop of St Andrews ), ( at the Battle of Flodden Field ) ( b. 1473 )

* August 22 – The Battle of Bosworth Field is fought between the armies of King Richard III of England and rival claimant to the throne of England Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond.

The five principal suspects are King Richard, his erstwhile ally Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham ; Richard's servant James Tyrrell, and Margaret Beaufort and her son Henry Tudor, who defeated Richard at Bosworth Field and took the throne as Henry VII.

One, advanced by Katherine Elwes Thomas in 1930 and adopted by Robert Ripley, posits that Humpty Dumpty is King Richard III of England, depicted in Tudor histories, and particularly in Shakespeare's play, as humpbacked and who was defeated, despite his armies at Bosworth Field in 1485.

Kitchener pushed hard for the Viceroyalty, returning to London to lobby Cabinet ministers and the dying King Edward VII, from whom, whilst collecting his Field Marshal's baton, Kitchener obtained permission to refuse the Malta job.

* 1518 – 1521: ambassador to France, where he was involved in arrangements for the " Field of Cloth of Gold " meeting between Henry and the new French King Francis I in 1520.

The site of camp, Chuck Noll Field, is one of the most storied in the NFL and NCAA with Peter King of SI. com describing it as: ".

It contains the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, the current venue for the U. S. Open tennis tournament ; Citi Field, the home of the New York Mets baseball team ; the New York Hall of Science, the Queens Museum of Art, the Queens Theatre in the Park, the Queens Wildlife Center, and the New York State Pavilion.

Behind them stand, from the left, Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, Fleet Admiral Ernest King, Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, General of the Army George Marshall, Major General Laurence S. Kuter, General Aleksei Antonov, Vice Admiral Stepan Kucherov, and Admiral of the Fleet Nikolay Gerasimovich Kuznetsov | Nikolay Kuznetsov.

Tolworth has a King George's Field in memorial to King George V, where Corinthian-Casuals F. C.

Holt has a King George's Field in memorial to King George V.

Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, Owen Tudor's Welsh grandson, became King Henry VII of England, founding the Tudor dynasty, when his supporters defeated those of Richard III at Bosworth Field in 1485.

Hecuba, was the wife of King Priam of Troy, and Apollo had a son with her named Troilus.

King William Street, Adelaide | King William Street, named in honour of King William IV, looking south from North Terrace, Adelaide | North Terrace in 2006 before the extension of the tram line.

He assumed the title of Alfonso XII, for although no King of united Spain had borne the name " Alfonso XI ", the Spanish monarchy was regarded as continuous with the more ancient monarchy represented by the 11 kings of Asturias, León and Castile also named Alfonso.

* Infante Juan Carlos Teresa Silvestre Alfonso of Spain ( 1913 – 1993 ), named heir to the throne and Count of Barcelona, whose son is the current King, Juan Carlos I of Spain.

He also married a Greek princess named Ladice daughter of King Battus III and made alliances with Polycrates of Samos and Croesus of Lydia.

Arne confessed to her father that she was with child by the god Poseidon ; her father, however, did not believe her, and handed her over to a man named Metapontus, King of Icaria.

Emperor Joseph I, acting on behalf of his younger brother King ’ Charles III ’, absent in Spain, claimed that reconquered Brabant and Flanders should be put under immediate possession of a governor named by himself.

* In the book Faithful by Steward O ' Nan and Stephen King, describing the 2004 season of the Boston Red Sox, there is a chapter contributed by King, named " The Gloom is gone from Mudville ".

King Alfonso X — named as Affonso in the Cantigas — is also believed to be an author of some of them as he refers himself in first person.

* α CVn ( Asterion, Cor Caroli ) is the constellation's brightest star, named by Sir Charles Scarborough in memory of King Charles I, the deposed king of Britain.

Columbanus accordingly obtained from King Gontram the Gallo-Roman castle named " Luxovium " ( Luxeuil ), some eight miles distant from Annegray.

The known Cimbri chiefs have names that look Celtic, including Boiorix ( which may mean " King of the Boii " or, more literally, " King of Strikers "), Gaesorix ( which means " Spear King "), and Lugius ( which may be named after the Celtic god Lugus ), although this may not mean that they are Celtic as the elements could work in Germanic ( compare the name of the Vandalic king Gaiseric, which is likely identical to Gaesorix ).

In 1968, after Martin Luther King Jr .' s death, Alston was asked to create another mural for the hospital to be placed in a pavilion named after the assassinated civil rights leader titled Man Emerging from the Darkness of Poverty and Ignorance into the Light of a Better World ".

On the same day the French King Louis XII named Cesare Duke of Valentinois, and this title, along with his former position as Cardinal of Valencia, explains the nickname " Valentino ".

The Royal Navy named a King George V-class battleship after Beatty, but this ship was renamed HMS Howe before completion, as another battleship of the same class, intended to be named after Jellicoe, was renamed HMS Anson.

Edgar may have been named after a character in William Shakespeare's King Lear, a play the couple was performing in 1809.

King Street is named after a man named John King who settled there in the late 18th century and started a ship building business.