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Events on Monday 8 August 1549 1
1549Henry II declares war on EnglandFrance reopens the fight for BoulogneKing Henry II of France declared war on England on 8 August 1549, seeking to recover the port of Boulogne held by the English since 1544. The campaign dragged into 1550, when England agreed to return Boulogne to France under the Treaty of Boulogne.