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20 July 1545
Mary Rose sinks

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Henry VIII's flagship, the Mary Rose, sinks during a raid by French ships on Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight. Five hundred men are lost. The attack convinces Henry to make peace with Francis I of France, and he returns Boulogne to French possession.

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