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The standard title for monarchs from Æthelstan until John was "King of the English". In 1016 Cnut the Great, a Dane, was the first to call himself "King of England". In the Norman period "King of the English" remained standard, with occasional use of "King of England" or Rex Anglie. From John's reign onwards all other titles were eschewed in ...
The next two centuries saw huge growth in the English economy, driven in part by the increase in the population from around 1.5 million in 1086 to between 4 and 5 million in 1300. [148] More land, much of it at the expense of the royal forests, was brought into production to feed the growing population and to produce wool for export to Europe ...
1300 10 March – Wardrobe accounts of King Edward I of England ("Edward Longshanks") include a reference to a game called creag being played at the town of Newenden in Kent . It is generally agreed that creag is an early form of cricket .
King Charles III has travelled more than 1,500 miles around the UK in his first week on the throne. Charles has spent the past week carrying out engagements and a tour of the home nations since ...
Queen of the English: King Æthelred the Unready c. 966 –1016 King of the English r. 978–1013 r. 1014–1016: Queen Emma of Normandy c. 985 –1052 Queen of the English: King Cnut the Great c. 985/995 –1035 King of England r. 1016–1035: Queen Ælfgifu of Northampton c. 990 – after 1040 the first wife of King Cnut: Richard II 963 ...
There have been 13 British monarchs since the political union of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland on 1 May 1707.England and Scotland had been in personal union since 24 March 1603; while the style, "King of Great Britain" first arose at that time, legislatively the title came into force in 1707.
The Pale of Calais [a] was a territory in northern France ruled by the monarchs of England from 1347 to 1558. [1] The area, which centred on Calais, was taken following the Battle of Crécy in 1346 and the subsequent Siege of Calais, and was confirmed at the Treaty of Brétigny in 1360, in the reign of Edward III of England.
1305 Capture and execution of Scottish resistance fighter William Wallace by the English on a charge of treason; 1306 Robert the Bruce kills John Comyn III of Badenoch and is crowned King of Scotland; 1307 Death of Edward I, Edward II accedes to the English throne; 1314 Decisive victory for Scotland over England at the Battle of Bannockburn