1611 The Tempest. By William Shakespeare.

The Tempest. 

This article is about the Shakespeare play. For other uses, see The Tempest (disambiguation).

The shipwreck in Act I, Scene 1, in a 1797 engraving byBenjamin Smith after a painting by George Romney

The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and skilful manipulation. He conjures up a storm, the eponymous tempest, to lure his usurping brother Antonio and the complicit King Alonso of Naples to the island. There, his machinations bring about the revelation of Antonio's lowly nature, the redemption of the King, and the marriage of Miranda to Alonso's son, Ferdinand.

There is no obvious single source for the plot of The Tempest, but researchers have seen parallels in Erasmus's Naufragium, Peter Martyr's De orbe novo, and eyewitness reports byWilliam Strachey and Sylvester Jordain of the real-life shipwreck of the Sea Venture on the islands of Bermuda, and the subsequent conflict between Sir Thomas Gates and Sir George Somers. In addition, one of Gonzalo's speeches is derived from Montaigne's essay Of the Canibales, and much of Prospero's renunciative speech is taken word for word from a speech by Medea in Ovid's poem Metamorphoses. The masque in Act 4 may have been a later addition, possibly in honour of the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Frederick V in 1613. The play was first published in the First Folio of 1623.

President William McKinley's assassination.

Leon Czolgosz.

Leon Frank Czolgosz
Leon Czolgosz circa 1900, unknown photographer
Born	May 5 1873. Alpena, Michigan, or Ohio, U.S.
Died	October 29, 1901 (aged 28) Auburn, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Steel worker
Criminal charge	First-degree murder
Criminal penalty	Death
Criminal status	Executed by electric chair
Parents	Mary (Nowak) and Paul Czolgosz.
Conviction(s)	Assassination of William McKinley

Leon Frank Czolgosz (Polish form: Czołgosz, Polish pronunciation: [ˈt͡ʂɔwɡɔʂ]; May 5 1873 – October 29, 1901; also used surname "Nieman" and variations thereof was a Polish-American former steel worker responsible for the assassination of U.S. President William McKinley.

In the last few years of his life, he claimed to have been heavily influenced by anarchists such asEmma Goldman and Alexander Berkman.

1914 October 27th. Sinking of HMS Audacious.

• HMS Audacious (1912) 

  For other ships of the same name, see HMS Audacious.

  HMS Audacious
  Career (UK)
  Name:	HMS Audacious
  Ordered:	1910
  Laid down:	March 1911
  Launched:	14 September 1912
  Commissioned:	August 1913
  Fate:	Mined, 27 October 1914
  General characteristics
  Class & type:	King George V-class battleship
  Displacement:	23,400 long tons (23,780 t)
  Length:	598 ft (182.3 m)
  Beam:	89 ft (27.1 m)
  Draught:	28 ft (8.5 m)
  Installed power:	31,000 shp (23,120 kW)
  Propulsion:	4 × Parsons turbines 4 × shafts
  Speed:	21 kn (24.2 mph; 38.9 km/h)
  Complement:	900
  Armament:	10 × 13.5 in (343 mm) Mk V guns (5×2) 16 × BL 4 in (102 mm) Mk VII guns 3 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes

  HMS Audacious was a King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy. The vessel did not see any combat in the First World War, being sunk by a German naval mine off the northern coast of Donegal, Ireland in 191The four ships of the King George V class of the 1910 building programme were to have been repeats of the Orion class. However, the battle-cruiser HMS Lion, completed in May 1912 with her foremast ahead of the fore funnel, showed that this was a far better arrangement than that in the Orions, where it was the other way round. This modification produced a new and much improved class of battleship, a rare case where a battle-cruiser design influenced that of a battleship. Although the Orion and King George V classes were very similar, the position of the mast easily distinguishes the two types.

1944 October 23-26 Battle of Layte Gulf

Battle of Leyte Gulf

This article is about the naval battle. For the invasion of the island, see Battle of Leyte.

Battle of Leyte Gulf
Part of the Pacific War of World War II
The light aircraft carrier Princeton on fire, east of Luzon, 24 October 1944.
Date 23–26 October 1944 Location Leyte Gulf, Philippines Result Decisive Allied victory; Japanese military naval capabilities are crippled Territorial changes Allies liberate Leyte island, then the entire Philippine archipelago; crucial oil supply lines to Japan are crippled
Belligerents
United States  Australia	Empire of Japan
Commanders and leaders
William Halsey, Jr. (3rd Fleet)  Thomas C. Kinkaid (7th Fleet)  Clifton Sprague (Taffy 3 / Task Unit 77.4.3)  Jesse B. Oldendorf (Task Group 77.2)  John Augustine Collins (Task Force 74)	Takeo Kurita (Center Force)  Shōji Nishimura † (Southern Force)  Kiyohide Shima (Southern Force)  Jisaburō Ozawa (Northern Force)  Yukio Seki  † (Kamikazes)
Strength
~800 ships in total. 8 fleet carriers 8 light carriers 18 escort carriers 12 battleships 24 cruisers 166 destroyers and destroyer escorts Many PT boats, submarines, and fleet auxiliaries About 1,500 planes	67+ ships in total 1 fleet carrier 3 light carriers 9 battleships 14 heavy cruisers 6 light cruisers 35+ destroyers 300+ planes (including land-based aircraft).
Casualties and losses
~2,800 casualties; 1 light carrier, 2 escort carriers, 2 destroyers, 1 destroyer escort sunk 200+ planes	~12,500 dead; 1 fleet carrier, 3 light carriers 3 battleships, 10 cruisers, 11 destroyers sunk ~300 planes.

The Battle of Leyte Gulf, also called the Battles for Leyte Gulf, and formerly known as theSecond Battle of the Philippine Sea, is generally considered to be the largest naval battle of World War II and, by some criteria, possibly the largest naval battle in history.

It was fought in waters near thePhilippine islands of Leyte, Samarand Luzon from 23–26 October 1944, between combined US and Australian forces and the Imperial Japanese Navy. On 20 October, United States troops invaded the island of Leyte as part of a strategy aimed at isolating Japan from the countries it had occupied in Southeast Asia, and in particular depriving its forces and industry of vital oil supplies. The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) mobilized nearly all of its remaining major naval vessels in an attempt to defeat the Allied invasion, but was repulsed by theUS Navy's 3rd and 7th Fleets. The IJN failed to achieve its objective, suffered very heavy losses, and never afterwards sailed to battle in comparable force. The majority of its surviving heavy ships, deprived of fuel, remained in their bases for the rest of the Pacific War.

The Battle of Leyte Gulf consisted of four separate engagements between the opposing forces: theBattle of the Sibuyan Sea, theBattle of Surigao Strait, the Battle of Cape Engaño and the Battle off Samar, as well as other actions.

It was the first battle in which Japanese aircraft carried out organized kamikaze attacks. By the time of the battle, Japan had fewer aircraft than the Allied forces had sea vessels, demonstrating the difference in power of the two sides at this point of the war.