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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
[6] 24 May – new Westminster Bridge, designed by Thomas Page, is opened in London. [7] 5 June – "Geordie" Ridley first sings "Blaydon Races" at Balmbra's Music Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne. 30 June – 'Revised Code', introducing a system of 'payment by results' for elementary schools in England and Wales, begins to come into effect ...
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 ...
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.
Charles Dickens' novel David Copperfield complete in book form. Alfred Tennyson's poem In Memoriam A.H.H. [10] William Wordsworth's poem The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet's Mind (posthumously). The Germ, periodical of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood edited by William Michael Rossetti (four issues, January–April, the last two retitled Art and ...
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.
[6] 28 September – Michael Marks forms the partnership of Marks & Spencer with Thomas Spencer, [7] opening its first store in Manchester. [8] 13 October – Everton and Liverpool Football Clubs meet in the first Merseyside derby. [3] 17–18 October – First Kinetoscope parlour in the UK opens in London. [9]