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By 757 – London has come under the control of Æthelbald of Mercia and passes to Offa, who has a mint here. 798 – An early fire of London takes place. 838 – Kingston upon Thames is first mentioned. 842 – London is raided by Vikings with "great slaughter"; they besiege it in 851. [9] [12] 871 – Autumn: Danes take up winter quarters in ...
Field, Jacob F. London, Londoners and the Great Fire of 1666: Disaster and Recovery (2018) Fowler, James. London Transport: A Hybrid in History 1905-48 (Emerald Group Publishing, 2019). Hanlon, W. Walker. Pollution and Mortality in the 19th Century (UCLA and NBER, 2015) online; Jackson, Lee. Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth ...
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
Date Event c.10–c.40: Reign of Cunobelinus, an influential king of southern England before the Roman occupation; son of Tasciovanus [2] 43: Aulus Plautius leads an army of forty thousand to invade Great Britain; [3] Emperor Claudius makes Britain a part of the Roman Empire [4] C. 47 – 50 London settled by the Romans, known as Londinium [5]
This article lists the largest human settlements in the world (by population) over time, as estimated by historians, from 7000 BC when the largest human settlement was a proto-city in the ancient Near East with a population of about 1,000–2,000 people, to the year 2000 when the largest human settlement was Tokyo with 26 million.
Patrick T. Conley is president of the Heritage Harbor Foundation. This year marks the 500th anniversary of Giovanni da Verrazzano’s historic voyage to the New World and the first documented ...
On the 500th anniversary of the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs in Mexico, on Aug. 13, 1521, the documentary "499" from Rodrigo Reyes tackles colonialism's shadow.
The territory today known as England became inhabited more than 800,000 years ago, as the discovery of stone tools and footprints at Happisburgh in Norfolk have indicated. [1] The earliest evidence for early modern humans in Northwestern Europe , a jawbone discovered in Devon at Kents Cavern in 1927, was re-dated in 2011 to between 41,000 and ...