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The Raid on York (also known as the Candlemas Massacre) took place on 24 January 1692 [5] [6] during King William's War, when Chief Madockawando and Father Louis-Pierre Thury led 200-300 natives into the town of York (then in the District of Maine and part of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, now in the state of Maine), killing about 100 of the English settlers and burning down buildings ...
The Cartography of York is the history of surveying and creation of maps of the city of York. The following is a list of historic maps of York: c.1610: John Speed's map [1] 1624: Samuel Parsons' map of Dringhouses [2] c1682: Captain James Archer's Plan of the Greate, Antient & Famous Citty of York [3]
A map of York, 1611. In 1644, during the Civil War, the Parliamentarians besieged York, and many medieval houses outside the city walls were lost. The barbican at Walmgate Bar was undermined and explosives laid, but the plot was discovered. On the arrival of Prince Rupert, with an army of 15,000 men, the siege was lifted.
The remains of the Abbey were described by E. Ridsdale Tate in a 1929 publication in which he asserted that: "Nowhere in England is there another spot so full of charm as York and where in York is there a more charming spot than the Gardens of the Philosophical Society, in which stand the beautiful fragments of that once powerful and noble ...
The City of York, officially simply "York", [6] is a unitary authority area with city status in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. [7]The district's main settlement is York, and its coverage extends to the town of Haxby and the villages of Earswick, Upper Poppleton, Nether Poppleton, Copmanthorpe, Bishopthorpe, Dunnington, Stockton on the Forest, Rufforth, Askham Bryan and ...
Benedict of York (died 1189), money lender; Jon Champion (born 1965), broadcaster; Captain Christopher Levett (1586–1630), explorer of New England, first settler of York (present-day Portland), Maine; Elizabeth Montagu (1718–1800) social reformer and patron of the arts. [28] Guy Mowbray (born 1972), football commentator
1464 – 1 June: Treaty of York signed between England and Scotland. 1471 – 14 March: Wars of the Roses: The deposed Edward IV of England lands with a small force at Ravenspur, [2] moving on speedily to secure York. 1472 – York Minster consecrated following completion of its west towers.
Dunnington is a village and civil parish in the City of York and ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. The population of the civil parish was 3,230 at the 2011 census. [1] The village is approximately 4 miles (6 km) east from York city centre. The parish includes the hamlet of Grimston.