In 1403, a Breton squadron defeated the English in the Channel and devastated Jersey, Guernsey and Plymouth while the French made a landing on the Isle of Wight.

Harold's brother Tostig made probing attacks along the southern coast of England in May 1066, landing at the Isle of Wight using a fleet supplied by Baldwin of Flanders.

Trusted by the popular party, Pembroke was made governor of the Isle of Wight, and he was one of the representatives of the parliament on several occasions, notably during the negotiations at Uxbridge in 1645 and at Newport in 1648, and when the Scots surrendered Charles in 1647.

Ine retained control of the Isle of Wight, and made further advances in Dumnonia, but the territorial gains Cædwalla had made in Sussex, Surrey and Kent were all lost by the end of Ine's reign.

In Britain the dragon boats were initially made in two pieces for transpot and bolted together at competition site with many bolts .. the first one piece boats boats were made on the Isle of Wight for Dragon Boat Events

On 22 August 1885 he was made Honorary Colonel of the 5th ( Isle of Wight, Princess Beatrice's ) Volunteer Battalion, the Hampshire Regiment, In early 1886 it was announced in The Times that he would be made a Captain in the 1st Life Guards, but the Secretary of State for War denied knowledge of this in the House of Commons and the appointment did not take place.

In 1889 Prince Henry was made Governor of Carisbrooke Castle and Captain-General and Governor of the Isle of Wight.

During the match, Paul Wight made his debut, breaking through from under the ring and attacking Austin.

It has previously been mentioned in the Isle of Wight Council's Local Transport Plan that any improvements to the railway should be made to ensure compatibility with the currently shelved South Hampshire Rapid Transit scheme.

In 1801 he was further honoured when he was made Baron St Helens, of St Helens on the Isle of Wight in the County of Southampton, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, allowing him to sit in the House of Lords. On his death in 1839, both baronies became extinct.

John Scott Russell ( 9 May 1808, Parkhead, Glasgow – 8 June 1882, Ventnor, Isle of Wight ) was a Scottish naval engineer who built the Great Eastern in collaboration with Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and made the discovery that gave birth to the modern study of solitons.

Having started in 1826, the event is held on the Solent ( the area of water between southern England and the Isle of Wight made tricky by strong double tides ), and is run by Cowes Week Limited in the small town of Cowes on the Isle of Wight.

Only some 35 ARVs were made before the Isle of Wight factory closed.

This process made Cutts highly unpopular on Wight, although he continued in its governorship until his death in 1707.

Wight has made it known that he would like to continue his acting career and expand beyond roles based on his size.

Similar vehicles have been made for work divers or sport divers but better streamlined as these do not have warheads ; the Dolphin made on the Isle of Wight ( UK ) in the 1970s is an example.

Wight who told he easily related to Seth, first made sketches of the four main superheros and the rest came later as the episodes were being developed.

The SAMPSON Radar is made in Cowes, Isle of Wight.

While in exile in 1811, the duc de Bourbon had made the acquaintance at a bordello in Piccadilly of one Sophia Dawes or Daw, a prostitute from the Isle of Wight.

* Paul Wight, professional wrestler

* Paul Wight, professional wrestler nicknamed " The Big Show "

Paul Wight ( born February 8, 1972 ), better known by his ring name, ( The ) Big Show, is an American professional wrestler currently signed with WWE.

In professional wrestling, Wight is a six-time world champion, having won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship twice, the WWF / E Championship twice, the ECW World Heavyweight Championship once, and the World Heavyweight Championship once, making him the first wrestler ever to hold all four championships.

Outside of professional wrestling, Wight has appeared in feature films and television series such as The Waterboy, Star Trek: Enterprise, and USA Network's comedy-drama Royal Pains and the action-drama Burn Notice.

* Big Show, a professional wrestler, real name Paul Wight

Several amateurs also worked alongside from other civil services and they were assisted by professional botanists such as Joseph Dalton Hooker ( 1817 – 1911 ), John Gerard Koenig ( 1728 – 1785 ), Robert Wight ( 1796 – 1872 ), Nathaniel Wallich ( 1786 – 1854 ) and William Roxburgh ( 1751 – 1815 ), the Father of Indian Botany.

Although their debut was in The Guildhall, Plymouth, on 23 August 1970, it was their performance six days later, at the Isle of Wight festival, that drew the most attention to the new band.

her debut single, " It's Not a Dream ", was released on 29 August in Ireland and 31 August in the UK, with appearances at Isle of Wight, Glastonbury, and a number of other European music festivals.

From 1830-36 he took pupils for the Royal Navy at Ryde, Isle of Wight.

Significant post-retirement activities of earlier Governors-General have included: Lord Tennyson was appointed Deputy Governor of the Isle of Wight ; Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson ( by now Lord Novar ) became Secretary of State for Scotland ; and Lord Gowrie became Chairman of the Marylebone Cricket Club ( Lord Forster had also held this post, before his appointment as Governor-General ).

It stayed in these colours for 12 months as part of a deal between Red Funnel and IKEA to provide home delivery services to the Isle of Wight.

Hendrix borrowed a Fender Telecaster from Noel Redding to record " Hey Joe " and " Purple Haze ", used a white Gibson SG Custom for his performances on The Dick Cavett Show in the summer of 1969, and the Isle of Wight film shows him playing his second Gibson Flying V. While Jimi had previously owned a Flying V that he had painted with a psychedelic design, the Flying V used at the Isle of Wight was a unique custom left-handed guitar with gold plated hardware, a bound fingerboard and " split-diamond " fret markers that were not found on other 1960s-era Flying Vs.

While it is commonplace to detect their influences in Kent ( for example, the practice of partible inheritance known as gavelkind ), the Jutes in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight vanished, probably assimilated to the surrounding Saxons, leaving only the slightest of traces.

Abercromby returned to Europe, and, in reward for his important services, was appointed colonel of the regiment of Scots Greys, entrusted with the governments of the Isle of Wight, Fort-George and Fort-Augustus, and raised to the rank of lieutenant-general.

In 1800 Bowdler took a lease on a country estate at St Boniface, on the Isle of Wight, where he lived for ten years.

Caedwalla reigned for just two years, but achieved a dramatic expansion of the kingdom's power, conquering the kingdoms of Sussex, Kent and the Isle of Wight, although Kent regained its independence almost immediately and Sussex followed some years later.

* The Isle of Wight is sold to King Edward I by Countess Isabella De Fortibus for six thousand marks.

In anticipation of the invasion, Harold assembled his troops on the Isle of Wight but, perhaps due to unfavourable winds, the invasion fleet remained in port for almost seven months.

Seabed survey shows that when the sea level was lower in the Ice Age the River Solent continued the line of the eastern Solent ( Spithead ) to a point roughly due east of the east end of the Isle of Wight and due south of a point about 3 km west of Selsey Bill, and then south-south-west for about 30 km, and then south for about 14 km, and then joined the main river flowing down the dry bed of the English Channel.

A new theory-that the Solent was originally a lagoon-was reported in the Southern Daily Echo by Garry Momber from the Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology.

* Solent Aggregates to Outreach A project from the Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology.

As the couple left Windsor for their honeymoon at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, they were cheered by the schoolboys of neighbouring Eton College, who included Lord Randolph Churchill.

* Live storm data and sferics for southern England Generated by data recorded by a weather station at Newport, Isle of Wight, UK

They join the Isle of Wight colony, and settle down to the long struggle ahead, determined to find a way to destroy the triffids and reclaim Earth for humanity.

Pitman persuades the King to move permanently to the Isle of Wight, where his only duty is to appear regularly on the balcony of a half-size replica ( but with double glazing ) of Buckingham Palace for the paying visitors to see.

King Neptune is shown symbolically passing his trident to Britannia in the 1847 fresco " Neptune Resigning to Britannia the Empire of the Sea " by William Dyce, a painting Victoria commissioned for her Osborne House on the Isle of Wight.

She purchased the land for Osborne House in the Isle of Wight, which became the summer home of the royal family.

His widow acted to clear Nash's debts ( some £ 15, 000 ), she held a sale of the Castle's contents, including three paintings by J. M. W. Turner painted on the Isle of Wight, two by Benjamin West and several copies of old master paintings by Richard Evans these were sold at Christie's on 11 July 1835 for £ 1, 061.

It was named for picturesque Sandown on the Isle of Wight.

Mrs. S. Bartram Richards, the wife of the secretary-treasurer of the land company, suggested the name " Ventnor " for the area being developed in Atlantic County by the Camden and Atlantic Land Company south of Atlantic City, having recently visited the seashore resort on the Isle of Wight with the same name.

The series has included the trio rowing up the River Thames ( similar to the 1889 novel also named Three Men in a Boat ), sailing from London to the Isle of Wight for a sailing yacht race, borrowing numerous vessels to make their way from Plymouth to the Isles of Scilly, taking to the Irish Canals and Rivers and along with Dara's dog ( Snip Nua ), an escapade travelling throughout the Mediterranean to Venice and most recently attempting to find a boat to take to the anniversary of the Statue of Liberty, where in response to an ongoing challenge between Griff and Dara ( who had each secured a boat each and who refusing to give it up to use the others ) he secured the Nantucket Lightship to use.