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Victoria Cross

highest military decoration awarded by the UK and the Commonwealth

10 dated entries naming Victoria Cross, drawn from 9 separate years between 1834 CE and 1968 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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19th century

  • 1834February 19 – Charles Davis Lucas, British Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1914)source
  • 1854June 21 – Battle of Bomarsund in Åland off the coast of Finland: British Royal Navy seaman's mate Charles Davis Lucas throws a live Russian artillery shell overboard by hand before it explodes, for which he is awarded the first Victoria Cross in 1857.source
  • 1856January 29 – Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross as a British military decoration.source
  • 1857June 26 – At a ceremony in London, Queen Victoria awards the first 66 Victoria Crosses to British troops, for actions during the Crimean War.source
  • 1857November 16 – Indian Rebellion of 1857: British troops win 24 Victoria Crosses in action this day.source
  • 1890January 4 – Augustus Agar, British commodore, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1968)source

20th century

  • 1908September 21 – Charles Upham, New Zealand soldier, twice winner of the Victoria Cross (died 1994)source
  • 1916November 23 – Lanoe Hawker VC, British World War I fighter ace, killed in action by Manfred von Richthofen (b. 1890)source
  • 1930November 20 – Sir Neville Howse, Australian politician and recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1863)source
  • 1968December 30 – Augustus Agar, British naval officer, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1890)source

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