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Anne of Cleves travelled via Calais on her way to England to marry
Henry VIII (1509-1547).
See also: Field of Cloth of Gold (1520) & Conference of Calais (1521)
It was during Mary I's reign that Calais, England's last possession in France, was lost.
WORLD WAR II
During the World War II, pipelines were laid under the English Channel
from Dungeness in Kent to Calais to supply the mechanised allied army with
fuel - it was known as Operation Pluto.
| 1346 | | Devonshire ports provide 88 ships for the Crecy and Calais campaigns | | BAAAGBAV | | 1347 | | English capture Calais in France | | BAAAGBXC BAAAGBKY | | 1360.May.08 | | Treaty of Br�tigny: Edward III secures possession of Guienne and Gascony, Poitou, Saintonge and Aunis, Agenais, P�rigord, Limousin, Quercy, Bigorre, the countship of Gaure, Angoumois, Rouergue, Montreuil-sur-mer, Ponthieu, Calais, Sangatte, Ham and the countship of Guines, surrendering
the duchies of Normandy and Touraine, the countships of Anjou and Maine, and the suzerainty of Brittany and of Flanders | | BAAAGBKX | | 1380 | | Thomas of Woodstock, in command of the army in French, marches from Calais to Brittany | | BAAAGBXE BAAAGBXD | | 1421.Jan.06+ | | Henry V and Catherine travel through Calais to Dover
At Dover they are greeted with near hysterical joy | | BAAAGEEY BAAAGEHJ | | 1421.Jun | | Henry V lands at Calais with 4,000 troops. He marches to Paris to relieve the Duke of Exeter, takes Dreaux and marches south into Beauce and takes Vendome and Beaugency. The army camps for 3 days before Orleans. Decamping, they march north taking Villeneuve-le-Roy and Rougemmont where the entire garrison is hanged and buildings destroyed | | BAAAGEEY paris BAAAGEFH | | 1453 | | England lost all its French possessions excepting Calais | | BAAAGDKP BAAAGCRH BAAAGCRG BAAAGBKY | | 1459.Oct.12 | | Duke of York flees to Ireland as Lancastrians advance on the fortress at Ludlow
The earl of Warwick escapes to Calais | | BAAAGDKP BAAAGCRH | | 1520.Feb | | Wolsey arranges the meeting of Henry VIII and Francis at the English castle at Guisnes in Calais | | BAAAGBXA BAAAGEKW | | 1520.Jul | | English court hosts a banquet for Charles V in Calais to the fury of Francis of France | | BAAAGBXA | | 1532 | | Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII sleep together for the first time Calais | | BAAAGBXA BAAAGEKX | | 1533 | | John Dudley accompanies Henry VIII to Calais | | BAAAGDGQ | | 1538 | | John Dudley appointed deputy governor of Calais (to Lisle) | | BAAAGDGQ BAAAGDDR | | 1540.May.19 | | Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle
imprisoned in the Tower of London on suspicion of treason by plotting to betray Calais to the French | | BAAAGDGQ BAAAGBXA | | 1558.Jan.07 | | Loss of Calais, Englands last domain in France, taken by French troops led by Francis, Duke of Guise | | BAAAGBKY BAAAGCAB | | 1564.Apr.11 | | Peace of Troyes between England and France; England renounces its claim to Calais on payment of 222,000 crowns by the French | | BAAAGCLM BAAAGBKY | | 1588.Jul.28 | | The English use fire-ships to scatter the Spanish Armada anchored at Calais | | BAAAGCLM | | 1875.Aug.25 | | Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim the English Channel
He swims from Dover to Calais in 21 hours and 45 minutes | | BAAAGEHJ |
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