History of The Royal Navy - English Navy/Royal Navy Timeline and Battles

English Navy/Royal Navy Timeline and Battles

  • 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
  • 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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    “The English winter—ending in July,
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