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Christ Church Cathedral (exterior) Siege of Dublin, 1535. The Earl of Kildare's attempt to seize control of Ireland reignited English interest in the island. After the Anglo-Normans taking of Dublin in 1171, many of the city's Norse inhabitants left the old city, which was on the south side of the river Liffey and built their own settlement on the north side, known as Ostmantown or "Oxmantown".
England, as part of the UK, joined the European Economic Community in 1973, which became the European Union in 1993. The UK left the EU in 2020. There is a movement in England to create a devolved English Parliament. This would give England a local Parliament like those already functioning for Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.
c.846 - St. Mary's Abbey founded on the North side of the River Liffey. 1014 – Battle of Clontarf. 1028 – Christ Church founded (approximate date). 1171 – Henry II of England in power. [3] [1] 1172 – Dublin "given charter and made centre of English Pale." [4] 1176 - Strongbow, earl of Pembroke leader of the Anglo-Norman forces, dies in ...
This "Addison Act", named after the first Minister of Health, Christopher Addison, required local authorities to survey their housing needs and start building houses to replace slums. The Treasury subsidized the low rents. In England and Wales 214,000 houses were built, and the Ministry of Health became largely a ministry of housing. [149]
The Industrial Revolution began in 18th-century England, transforming its society into the world's first industrialised nation. [11] England is home to the two oldest universities in the English-speaking world: the University of Oxford, founded in 1096, and the University of Cambridge, founded in 1209. Both universities are ranked among the ...
One of the oldest is Dublin Castle, which was first founded as a major defensive work on the orders of England's King John in 1204, shortly after the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169, when it was commanded that a castle be built with strong walls and good ditches for the defence of the city, the administration of justice, and the protection ...
The Old Dock, originally known as Thomas Steers' dock, was the world's first commercial wet dock. [25] 1744: An attempted French invasion of southern England was stopped by storms. 1756: Following the start of the French and Indian War 2 years prior, the Seven Years' War begins. [26] 1763 10 Feb
Through internal struggles and dynastic marriage alliances, the Welsh became more united until Owain Gwynedd (1100–1170) became the first Welsh ruler to use the title princeps Wallensium (prince of the Welsh). [3] After invading England, land-hungry Normans started pushing into the relatively weak Welsh Marches, setting up a number of ...