* Adrian Johns ( born 1951 ), English governor of Gibraltar and former senior officer in the Royal Navy

* 1950 – Anne, Princess Royal, English daughter of Elizabeth II

In the English order of precedence, the Archbishop of Canterbury is ranked above all individuals in the realm, with the exception of the Sovereign and members of the Royal Family.

* 1882 – Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, English officer in the Royal Air Force and commander in RAF Fighter Command ( d. 1970 )

MS 24 ) is a 12th century English illuminated manuscript bestiary that was first listed in 1542 in the inventory of the Old Royal Library at the Palace of Westminster.

In other words, if an ' uninhabited ' or ' infidel ' territory is colonized by Britain, then the English law automatically applies in this territory from the moment of colonization ; however if the colonized territory has a pre-existing legal system, the native law would apply ( effectively a form of indirect rule ) until formally superseded by the English law, through Royal Prerogative subjected to the Westminster Parliament.

Upon the transfer of the colony to British control, the British government issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which imposed English common law on the colony, under the principle set out in Blackstone relating to captured colonies.

The Royal Netherlands Air Force has adopted the English spelling of commodore for an equivalent rank.

It can be divided in two sections: the northwestern part is the Yaque del Norte Valley ( or Línea Noroeste ) and the eastern Yuna Valley ( or Vega Real, English: Royal Valley ).

When he appeared at the London Palladium music hall in 1948, he " roused the Royal family to shrieks of laughter and was the first of many performers who have turned English variety into an American preserve.

William feared that even English neutrality would not suffice and that control over the Royal Navy was a prerequisite for a successful naval campaign against France.

The English Civil War, 1642 – 1645, led to an expansion of the gunpowder industry, with the repeal of the Royal Patent in August 1641.

Captain George Vancouver ( 22 June 1757 – 10 May 1798 ) was an English officer of the British Royal Navy, best known for his 1791-95 expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of contemporary Alaska, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon.

Pinafore ( 1878 ), satirising the rise of unqualified people to positions of authority and poking good-natured fun at the Royal Navy and the English obsession with social status ( building on a theme introduced in The Sorcerer, love between members of different social classes ).

The harp was adopted as a symbol of the Kingdom of Ireland on the coinage from 1542, and in the Royal Standard of King James ( VI of Scotland / I of England ) in 1603 and continued to feature on all English and United Kingdom Royal Standards ever since, though the styles of the harps depicted differed in some respects.

However, the first English warship to bear the name Resolution was actually the first rate ( built in 1610 and rebuilt in 1641 ), which was renamed Resolution in 1650 following the inauguration of the Commonwealth, and continued to bear that name until 1660, when the name Prince Royal was restored.

* Ark Royal ( 1587 ), the flagship of the English fleet during the Spanish Armada campaign of 1588.

Alongside English convicts, they were used to build the Royal Naval Dockyard on Ireland Island.

Jamaica became a base of operations for privateers, including Captain Henry Morgan, operating from the main English settlement Port Royal.

The English established their main coastal town at Port Royal and by 1659, two hundred houses, shops, and warehouses surrounded the fort.

* 1628 – The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document, is granted the Royal Assent by Charles I and becomes law.

In 1961 an English scholar of Arabic Dr. E. E. Elder and William M. Miller, an openly hostile Christian minister, published a second English translation, Al-Kitab Al-Aqdas, through the Royal Asiatic Society.

The musicians of the Royal Opera would not rehearse a work merely to see how it would sound.

-- For its final change of bill in its London season, the Leningrad State Kirov Ballet chose tonight to give one of those choreographic miscellanies known as a `` gala program '' at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Reference to them is made according to the organization of Immanuel Bekker's Royal Prussian Academy edition ( Aristotelis Opera edidit Academia Regia Borussica, Berlin, 1831 – 1870 ), which in turn is based on ancient classifications of these works.

Set to music by John Lanchbery with choreography by Frederick Ashton and performed in character costume by members of the Royal Ballet and the Royal Opera House orchestra.

* 1732 – The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London.

She was awarded a contract with the Royal Opera in London and made her début at Covent Garden as Marie in La Fille du régiment in 1876.

In 2011, an operatic adaptation by composer Tarik O ' Regan and librettist Tom Phillips was premiered at the Royal Opera House in London.

* 1734 – Premiere performance of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

* 1858 – Opening of the present Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.

* 1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm's Royal Opera 13 days earlier.

European opera houses and festivals including the Royal Opera in London, La Scala in Milan, the Salzburg Festival, La Fenice in Venice, and the Maggio Musicale in Florence have also transmitted their productions to theaters in cities around the world since 2006, including 90 cities in the U. S.

Notable works of this time period include public buildings such as the Royal Swedish Opera and private developments such as the luxury housing developments on Strandvägen.

Distinguished among Stockholm's many theatres are the Royal Dramatic Theatre ( Dramaten ), one of Europe's most renowned theatres, and the Royal Swedish Opera, inaugurated in 1773.

* 1809 – The Royal Opera House in London opens.

* Nick Dear's adaptation for the Royal National Theatre, called The Villains ' Opera, 2002

In the mid 1980s, Curry performed in The Rivals ( Bob Acres 1983 ) and in several plays with the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain, including The Threepenny Opera ( MacHeath 1986 ), Dalliance ( Theodore 1986 ), and Love For Love ( Tattle 1985 ).

* September 18 – A new theatre to hold the Royal Opera House opens in London to replace the first, burnt down in a fire in 1808.

* January 8 – George Frideric Handel's opera Ariodante is premièred at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.

* April 16 – Alcina, George Frideric Handel's Italian opera, premieres at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.

* March 16 – King Gustav III of Sweden is shot in the back by Jacob Johan Anckarström at a midnight masquerade at the Royal Opera in Stockholm ; he lives until March 29, and is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.

* December 7 – The original Covent Garden Theatre Royal ( now the Royal Opera House ) is opened.

* January 18 – The first opera performance in the Swedish language, Thetis and Phelée, performed by Carl Stenborg and Elisabeth Olin in Bollhuset, marks the establishment of the Royal Swedish Opera.