Isles of Scilly Timeline of Events

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Isles of Scilly

The Isles of Scilly form an archipelago off the southwestern tip of the Cornish peninsula of Great Britain. The islands have had a unitary authority council since 1890, and are separate from the Cornwall unitary authority, but some services are combined with Cornwall and the islands are still part of the ceremonial county of Cornwall...

Timeline of Events

1707

10.22.1707

Scilly naval disaster: four British Royal Navy ships run aground near the Isles of Scilly because of faulty navigation. Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell and thousands of sailors drown.

1983

7.16.1983

Sikorsky S-61 disaster: a helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.

1986

4.17.1986

The Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly ends.