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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 .
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
1212 Great Fire of 1212 began in July in Southwark, London; 1215 Magna Carta is agreed by King John at Runnymede; 1216 Death of King John, Henry III succeeds to the throne of England; 1237 Border between Scotland and England by the Treaty of York; 1240 Death of Llywelyn ab Iorwerth, prince of Wales; Dafydd ap Llywelyn succeeds to the throne of ...
Great Fire of London : A major conflagration that swept through the central parts of London. 1688: Glorious Revolution: [24] Also called the Revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of James II by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau (William of Orange). 1694 27 July The Bank of England is ...
Such designations can be ambiguous; for example, "CST" can mean China Standard Time (UTC+08:00), Cuba Standard Time (UTC−05:00), and (North American) Central Standard Time (UTC−06:00), and it is also a widely used variant of ACST (Australian Central Standard Time, UTC+9:30). Such designations predate both ISO 8601 and the internet era; in ...
May – The Cross of Neith, an important religious relic acquired from Wales, is carried through London at the head of a royal procession. 2 September – Isabella Mortimer, Countess of Arundel, marries, as her third husband, Robert de Hastang. She is subsequently fined the sum of £1,000 for having married without Royal Licence. [10] 1286
In Ireland, what Irish law designates as "standard time" is observed during the summer, with clocks turned one hour ahead of UTC. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The SDT column shows the abbreviation used during the winter, even in Ireland, and the DST column shows the abbreviation used during the summer, which is "IST", where the "S" in "IST" stands for "Standard ...
List of peers 1300–1309; G. Gascon campaign (1294–1303) Gascon War This page was last edited on 1 March 2019, at 01:06 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...