Two of Henry VIll's six wives were (a)   , two he divorced, one died following childbirth, and the last one survived.

In 1605, a man called Guy Fawkes attempted to (a)   the Houses of Parliament in London with barrels of gunpowder.

The Great Fire of London I in a bakery (a)   on 2nd September 1666 and wasn't extinguished until four days later.

On 3rd September 1783, a peace (a)   was signed between the United States and Britain that ended the American War of Independence.

The French army under Napoleon was (a)   at the Battle of Waterloo by the British-led and Prussian armies.

A (a)   is a soldier who usually works alone and specializes in shooting from very long distances. The word originates from the British occupation of India in the 1800s.

Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole were nurses who improved the treatment of the (a)   in the Crimean War from 1853-1856.

The (a)   in the United States - fought between the Northern and Southern States

- lasted from 1861 to 1865.

Although the Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896 lasted only 38 minutes, over 500 people, both combatants and (a)   , were killed or injured.

In December 1914, Pope Benedict XV suggested a temporary break in World War I for the celebration of Christmas. While an official (a)   was refused, many soldiers declared their own unofficial truce (перемирʼя).

The total number of (a)   (people killed or injured) caused directly by the First World War was around 40 million.

In the early 1930s, the divorced American socialite (світська левиця) Wallis Simpson (a)   the heart of the heir to the British throne, who soon after became King Edward VIII. Their intended marriage caused a constitutional crisis and ultimately led to Edward's abdication (зречення).

The battleship Bismarck was sunk during the Second World War. Of a crew of 2,200, there were only 114 (a)   .

On 8th December 1941, President Roosevelt (a)   war on Japan following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the previous day.

Nelson Mandela was (a)   in 1990 after having been imprisoned for 27 years.