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Robert Blake (admiral)

military commander of the Commonwealth of England (1599-1657)

17 dated entries naming Robert Blake (admiral), drawn from 7 separate years between 1598 CE and 1657 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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16th century

  • 1598September 27 – Robert Blake, English admiral (died 1657)source

17th century

  • 1649March – Robert Blake is promoted to become a General at Sea of the English fleet.source
  • 1649March 4 – The first ever set of rules and regulations for England's Parliamentary Navy, Robert Blake's The Laws of War and Ordinances of the Sea, is adopted by the House of Commons, and Blake is promoted to the position of General at Sea of the English fleet.source
  • 1649May 22–October – Robert Blake blockades Prince Rupert's fleet in Kinsale, Ireland.source
  • 164922 May–October – Robert Blake blockades Prince Rupert's fleet in Kinsale, Ireland.source
  • 164922 May–October – Robert Blake blockades Prince Rupert's fleet in Kinsale.source
  • 1650March 10 – The Commonwealth of England's navy Robert Blake blockades a surviving English Royalist fleet commanded by Prince Rupert of the Rhine in the Tagus estuary at Lisbon. Rupert breaks out on October 12.source
  • 1652May 19 (May 29, New Style) – First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Dover – The opening battle is fought off Dover between Lt.-Admiral Maarten Tromp's 42 Dutch ships and 21 English ships divided into two squadrons, one commanded by Robert Blake and the other by Nehemiah Bourne; the result is inconclusive.source
  • 165219 May – First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Dover fought inconclusively off Dover between Lt.-Admiral Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp's 42 Dutch ships and 21 English ships divided into two squadrons, one commanded by Robert Blake and the other by Nehemiah Bourne.source
  • 1655April 4 – Battle of Porto Farina, Tunis: English admiral Robert Blake's fleet defeats the Barbary pirates.source
  • 1655April 28 – Admiral Blake severely damages the arsenal of the Bey of Tunis.source
  • 165528 April – Admiral Robert Blake destroys the pirate fleet of the bey of Tunis.source
  • 165619 September – Anglo-Spanish War: Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish treasure fleet near Cádiz.source
  • 1657April 20 – Anglo-Spanish War – Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife: English Admiral Robert Blake attempts to seize a Spanish treasure fleet.source
  • 165720 April – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish treasure fleet under heavy fire at Santa Cruz de Tenerife.source
  • 1657August 7 – Robert Blake, British admiral (born 1599)source
  • 165717 August – Admiral Blake dies of old wounds at sea off Plymouth. His body is given a lying in state in the Queen's House, Greenwich and a full state funeral in Cromwell's presence, and he becomes one of the first commoners to be honoured by burial in Westminster Abbey (although reinterred after the Restoration).source

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