Looking back in time

Peasants’ Revolt climaxes when rebels plunder and burn the Tower of London and kill the archbishop of Canterbury.

Captain William Bligh arrives in Timor after sailing 5 800km in a 6m boat after being set adrift by mutineers on the HMS Bounty. Sandpaper is patented. California Republic is proclaimed, declaring independence from Mexico.

Mining magnate Barney Barnato, 44, drowns when he jumps overboard from the Scot near Madeira.

Government of Transvaal sends home 50 000 Chinese day workers

Alcock and Brown take off for the first non-stop transatlantic flight. German forces occupy Paris. Donald Trump born. Albert II becomes the first monkey in space. The rhesus monkey survived his ascent to 134km, but died on his return due to parachute failure.

Morné du Plessis’s Springboks beat Billy Beaumont’s British and Irish Lions 26-19 in Bloemfontein to go 2-0 up in the series.

Argentina surrenders to the UK, ending the 74-day Falkland Islands War.

Magoo’s Bar in Durban bombed, killing three people and injuring 69.

Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth.

Chechen rebels take 2 000 people hostage in a hospital in Russia.

Thabo Mbeki elected to succeed president Nelson Mandela.

President Thabo Mbeki sacks his deputy Jacob Zuma after Zuma is implicated in corruption during Schabir Shaik’s trial.

Grenfell Tower block fire in London kills 79 and injures 37.