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The Isle of Wight Festival was a very large rock festival that took place near Afton Down, West Wight in 1970, following two smaller concerts in 1968 and 1969. The 1970 show was notable both as one of the last public performances by Jimi Hendrix and for the number of attendees, reaching by some estimates 600,000. [ 56 ]
On the Isle of Wight neolithic occupation is attested to by flint tool finds, pottery and monuments. The Isle of Wight's neolithic communities were agriculturalists, farming livestock and crops. The Isle of Wight's most recognisable neolithic site is the Longstone at Mottistone, the remains of an early Neolithic long barrow. Initially ...
The French invasion of the Isle of Wight occurred during the Italian Wars in July 1545. The invasion was repulsed. France had a long history of attacking the Isle of Wight, though the 1545 campaign would be the final time the French attempted to take it. [4] The French forces were led by Claude d'Annebault,. [5]
History of the Isle of Wight; 0–9. 1851 America's Cup; A. Arwald; B. Back of the Wight; Bay Fleet; D. Dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight; F. Isle of Wight Festival 1969 ...
History of the Isle of Wight (14 C, 28 P) History of the Isles of Scilly (3 C, 16 P) History of Jersey (11 C, 49 P) ... British history timelines (9 C, 111 P)
11 November – the King attempts to escape captivity but is captured and imprisoned in Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight. [3] 15 November – Corkbush Field mutiny: two regiments of the New Model Army threaten to mutiny. [6] 24 December – Parliament presents the King with new demands which he rejects. [3]
The Lord of the Isle of Wight was a feudal title, at times hereditary and at others by royal appointment in the Kingdom of England, before the development of an extensive peerage system. William the Conqueror granted the lordship of the Isle of Wight to his relative and close counsellor William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford in 1066.
Isle of Man 1469: Kingdom of Scotland: Poynings' Law: 1541 Scottish Reformation Tudor conquest of Ireland Union of the Crowns: 1607: Kingdom of Ireland: Flight of the Earls Plantation of Ulster Wars of the Three Kingdoms: 1641 Confederate Ireland 1649: Commonwealth of England: Cromwellian conquest of Ireland: 1653: Commonwealth of England ...