English Navy/Royal Navy Timeline and Battles
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- 1213 Battle of Damme
- 1338 Battle of Arnemuiden
- 1340 Battle of Sluys
- 1350 Battle of Winchelsea
- 1372 Battle of La Rochelle
- 1512 Battle of Saint-Mathieu
- 1545 Battle of the Solent
- 1585–1604 First Anglo–Spanish War
- 1625 Cádiz Expedition
- 1627–1629 Anglo-French War
- 1652–1654 First Anglo–Dutch War
- 1654–1660 Second Anglo-Spanish War
- 1665–1667 Second Anglo-Dutch War
- 1672–1674 Third Anglo-Dutch War
- 1688–1697 Nine Years' War
- 1701–1713 War of the Spanish Succession
- 1718–1720 War of the Quadruple Alliance
- 1740–1748 War of the Austrian Succession
- 1754–1763 Seven Years' War
- 1778–1783 American War of Independence
- 1793–1802 French Revolutionary Wars
- 1803–1815 Napoleonic Wars
- 1812–1814 War of 1812
- 1821 First steam paddle ships for auxiliary use
- 1827 Battle of Navarino is the last fleet action between wooden sailing ships.
- 1839–1842 First Anglo-Chinese War
- 1840 First screw-driven warship, Rattler
- 1853–1856 Crimean War
- 1856–1860 Second Anglo-Chinese War
- 1860 First Iron-hulled armoured battleship, Warrior
- 1902 First British submarine, Holland 1
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- 1905 First steam turbine-powered "all big-gun" battleship, Dreadnought
- 1914–1918 First World War
- 1918 First true aircraft carrier, Argus.
- 1918–1920 Russian Civil War
- 1931 Invergordon Mutiny
- 1939–1945 Battle of the Atlantic
- 1940 Norwegian Campaign
- 1940 Dunkirk evacuation
- 1940–1944 Battle of the Mediterranean
- 1941–1945 Arctic Convoys
- 1941–1945 South-East Asian Theatre
- 1944 Normandy Landings
- 1944–1945 British Pacific Fleet
- 1946 Corfu Channel Incident
- 1949 Amethyst incident on the Yangtze River
- 1950–1953 Korean War
- 1956 Suez Crisis
- 1958–1976 Cod Wars
- 1959 The last battleship, Vanguard, is decommissioned.
- 1962–1966 Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation
- 1963 First British nuclear submarine, Dreadnought
- 1966–1975 Beira Patrol against Rhodesia
- 1980–present Armilla Patrol in the Persian Gulf
- 1982 Falklands War
- 1991 First Gulf War
- 1999 Operation Allied Force - Kosovo conflict
- 2000 Operation Palliser - Sierra Leone
- 2001–present Operation Veritas - Afghanistan Campaign
- 2002–present Combined Task Force 150
- 2003–2009 Operation Telic - Invasion of Iraq
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