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The Extreme weather events of 535–536 likely caused a great famine and decline in population. 547. Angles under Ida conquer a Celtic area called Bryneich, founding the Kingdom of Bernicia. [1] 549. A great plague causes much population loss. 550. Gildas completes his post-Roman history On the Destruction of Britain. [1] 560
This is a timeline of British history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of England, History of Wales, History of Scotland, History of Ireland, Formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and History of the United Kingdom
9 January – Sir Humphry Davy's Davy lamp is first tested underground as a coal mining safety lamp at Hebburn Colliery in the Durham Coalfield. [1]30 January – Wrecking of the Sea Horse, Boadicea and Lord Melville (military transport ships) off the coast of Ireland in a gale with the loss of around 570.
The stamp becomes valid for prepayment of postage from 6 May. [6] 5 May - Thomas Carlyle gives the first lecture in the series On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History. 11 May – Chartist leader Feargus O'Connor is sentenced to imprisonment in York Castle for seditious libel over speeches published in The Northern Star.
6 June – John Marshall, textile manufacturer (born 1765) 17 June – Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby), comic poet and clergyman (born 1788) 17 July – Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1764) 7 October – John Jackson, boxer (born 1769) 12 October – Elizabeth Fry, humanitarian (born 1780)
6 March – Henry Radcliffe Crocker, dermatologist (died 1909) 17 March – Kate Greenaway, children's book illustrator and writer (died 1901) 3 May – Sir Edmund Elton, 8th Baronet, inventor, studio potter (died 1920) 25 May – Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (died 1923) 27 June – Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish political leader (died ...
[6] 6 May – Phoenix Park Murders in Ireland: Lord Frederick Cavendish, the newly appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland, and Thomas Henry Burke, his Permanent Undersecretary, are fatally stabbed in Phoenix Park, Dublin, by members of the "Irish National Invincibles" (militant Irish republicans). [4]
January – Ulster Protestant Unionists begin to lobby against the Irish Home Rule Bill, establishing the Ulster Loyal Anti-Repeal Union in Belfast. 13 January – after six years of campaigning, the atheist Charles Bradlaugh is permitted to affirm rather than take the traditional oath, allowing him to take his seat as a Member of Parliament.