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"Northumbria" appears in the names of several institutions and companies: Northumbria Police and Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner: Northumberland and Tyne and Wear; Northumbria University: non-geographic; The Natural History Society of Northumbria, Environment Agency and Britain in Bloom: North East England
Between Oswiu, the first king of Northumbria in 651, and Eric Bloodaxe, the last king of Northumbria in 954, there were forty-five kings, meaning that the average length of reign during the entire history of Northumbria is only six and a half years. Of the twenty-five kings before the Danish rule of Northumbria, only four died of natural causes.
Northumbria, medieval kingdom in what is now Northern England and South-East Scotland Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title North Umbria .
1836 - Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo - After a 13-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers defending the Alamo are defeated and the fort taken. 1856 - The University of Maryland, College Park is chartered as the Maryland Agricultural College. 1857 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred ...
This timeline summarises significant events in the history of Northumbria and Northumberland. 500 559 – Ida of Bernicia is the first known King of Bernicia ; he reigned from 547 to 559. 588 – The first king of Deira was Ælla of Deira who ruled from 560 until his death in 588. 600 604 – Aethelfrith unites Bernicia and Deira to form Northumbria. 613 – Æthelfrith engaged in the Battle ...
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Despite their success south of the river Tees, the Vikings never fully conquered the Bernician part of Northumbria, despite the many raids they had carried out on the kingdom. [7] However, Viking control over the Danelaw , the central belt of Anglo-Saxon territory, resulted in Northumbria becoming isolated from the rest of Anglo-Saxon Britain.
The first European to see Texas was Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, who led an expedition for the governor of Jamaica, Francisco de Garay, in 1520.While searching for a passage between the Gulf of Mexico and Asia, [17] Álvarez de Pineda created the first map of the northern Gulf Coast. [18]