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Entries tagged

‘sark’

EventDate
Sark holds its first election 10th December
Sark women get the right to inherit 24th November
A Lancaster bomber crashed on Sark 23rd November
Sark featured in the music charts 20th November
Sibyl Beaumont married Robert Hathaway 5th November
Sark’s vineyards were vandalised 3rd November
Dame Sibyl Hathaway chose her Desert Island Discs 25th October
Sark’s Stocks Hotel was damaged by fire 18th October
The first mines were dug on Sark 17th October
Sark voted for democracy 4th October
Sark was the target of Operation Basalt 3rd October
Schoolboys and teacher went missing off Sark 13th September
Brecqhou was put up for sale 3rd September
Seigneur of Sark, Michael Beaumont, dies aged 88 3rd July
Dame Sibyl became a dame again 12th June
British papers reported Dame of Sark’s deportation 14th May
Sark is awarded Dark-Sky status 25th January
Sibyl Hathaway, Dame of Sark, is born 13th January
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