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The Nottingham Blitz was the Nazi German Luftwaffe bombing on the city of Nottingham on the evenings of 8/9 May 1941 as part of a nationwide campaign to disrupt key industrial production, undermine morale and destroy factories, rail networks and infrastructure. During one air raid alone 140 people had been killed and 4,500 houses had been ...
1693 – Nottingham Waterworks Company established. 1723 – Bluecoat school built. [9] 1726 – Nottingham Exchange built. 1732 – Richard Arkwright the inventor was born. 1741 – Nottingham Journal newspaper begins publication. [10] 1743 – Chapel Bar, the last remaining medieval city gate was demolished for the widening of the road.
[238] [239] [240] Old English writings also represent Jesus in the framework of the Anglo-Saxon elite, using terms for him such as hlaford ("lord") and describing his disciples as þegns. [241] The Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies further trace the descent of the kings to gods such as Woden and Seaxneat , with in some cases the ancestry being ...
Nottingham from the east, c. 1695, painted by Jan Siberechts. Nottingham is situated on an area of low hills [42] along the lower valley of the River Trent, and is surrounded by the Sherwood Forest in the north, the Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Yorkshire Coalfield in the west, and the Trent and Belvoir Vales in the east and south.
Shortly after the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ (Nisan 14 or 15), the Jerusalem church was founded as the first Christian church with about 120 Jews and Jewish Proselytes , followed by the events of Pentecost (Sivan 6) Ananias and Sapphira incident, Pharisee Gamaliel's defense of the Apostles (Acts 5:34–39),
If the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is to be believed, the various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms which eventually merged to become England were founded when small fleets of three or five ships of invaders arrived at various points around the coast of England to fight the sub-Roman British, and conquered their lands. [26]
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Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, 2nd Baron Howard of Effingham, KG (1536 – 14 December 1624), known as Lord Howard of Effingham, was an English statesman and Lord High Admiral under Elizabeth I and James I.