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Medallion of Julius Caesar - Roman Emporer at the time of the Invasion of Britain.
55BC
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The Roman standard bearer of the tenth legion landing in Britain.
55BC
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Caractacus leader of the British resistance north of the Thames at Rome after being released from capture.
52 AD
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Gregory , ruler of Kent , and the young English Saxon slaves he purchased. Pictured in Rome where he planned to educate them for the mission of evangelizing their Pagan countrymen on return to Britain.
590 AD
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Augustine preaching the message of Christianity from Rome before King Ethelbert on the Isle of Thanet.
597 AD
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High priest Coifi profanes the temple of the idols by calling for horse and a spear (both forbidden to him by heathen law) and hurling the spear into the temple ordering that it be destroyed by fire. This act was done after Edwin , a King of the Bretwalda , declared in favour of embracing Christianity.
627 AD
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Edmund , king of East Anglia , known as 'the Martyr' is killed by the Sea-king Ingvar and the Danes after he refused to renounce his faith.
871 AD
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Baptism of King Guthorm with King Alfred as his Godfather who gave the King the new name of Athelstan and acknowledged as the King of East Anglia
c. 878
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Alfred the Great lived for a time in secret in a neatherd's cottage. On one occasion it is said that he was abused by her after he burnt some bread in the fire.
AD 878
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King Alfred on a horse along the bank of the Lea twenty miles up the Thames from London where he planned the capture of the invading Danish fleet.
c.892
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The Barge of King Edgar manned by eight kings on the Dee - 973
Kenneth, king of Scotland, his son Malcolm, king of Cumbria, Mac Oric, of the Isles, with Dufnal, of South Wales, Siferth and Howel, of North Wales, Jacob, of Galloway, and Jukel, of Westmoreland who all took the oath of homage to their superior lord at the church of St. John the Baptist in Bath
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King Edward received by his stepmother Elfrida and murdered at Corfe castle, Dorset on 18 March 978 . He was stabbed to death in cold blood by his brother's retainers.
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King Harold II swears fidelity to Duke William 1066
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The death of King Harold II during the Battle of Hastings 1066
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King William I pays court to the English Leaders in London, Christmas 1067
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Robert wounds his father King William I at the siege of the castle of Gerberoy, near the frontier of Normandy, France. January 1079
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King William I receives a fatal hurt at Mantes, France 1087
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Anselm , abbot of Bec, made Archbishop of Canterbury - 1093
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Death of Rufus, William the Red (King William II). Killed by an arrow while hunting in the New Forest - 1100
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William De Breteuil, Eldest son of Fitz Osbern The Conqueror's Minister defends the treasury from Count Henry the lawful heir. Henry drawing his sword persuded William to give way and was named King Henry I the following day.
1100
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Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy and elder brother of Henry I, taken prisoner by the Breton clerk, Baudri at Tinchebraye, Normandy, France - 1106
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King Henry I's only legitimate heir, William, orders rowers to turn back and save his sister, the countess of Perche, after the White Ship wrecked from hitting a rock in the Seine estuary, 25 November 1120. William, aged 17, died as the boat sunk as it was swamped by the numbers stuggling for survival.
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The oath of Walter l'Espec who grasping the hand of William Earl of Albemarle exclaimed "I pledge thee my troth, that I will this day either conquer the Scots, or die by the Scots." - Cuton Moor, near Northallerton 1138
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Matilda niece of King David of Scotland is permitted by King Stephen of Blois to retire from Arundel castle and was conducted, under the safeguard of the legate, to the outposts of the Earl of Gloucester - October 1139
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Henry of Anjou and King Stephen of Blois confer across the Thames about the rightful heir to the throne and agreeing to a truce.
1153
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Thomas Becket forbids the Earl of Leicesater to pass sentence on him. 1162
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Murder of the primate, Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral - 29 December 1170
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King Henry II authorizes Dermod Mac Murchad the King of Leinster to levy forces - 1170
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King Henry II lands in Ireland at Waterford - 18 October 1172
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King William the Lion of Scotland taken prisoner by King Henry II at the castle of Alnwick, Newcastle - 1174
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King Richard I and Godfrey de Duisson, the Master of St John at Joppa - 23 July 1191
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King Richard I refuses to look upon the Holy City after he failed to conquer it. 1192
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Richard I pardons his brother John - 1194
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King Richard I pardons the archer who shot him during the siege of the castle of Chaluz - 1199
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Fulk de Cantelupe and Henry de Cornhill expel the monks of Christchurch with drawn swords on orders by King John in anger to the consecration of Langton - 14 July 1207
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The barons and nobles of England at a private meeting in at St. Edmundsbury review the charter of Henry I and swear at the church that if King John refuses their demands to produce a new charter under his seal, they would renounce their allegiance, and make war upon him until their liberties were achieved.
1214
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The barons demands are met and King John signs The Great Charter on the field at Runnymede. 15 June 1215
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Hubert De Burgh, a once faithful minister of the King who advised the cancellation of the Great Charter, taken by Geoffrey de Craucombe to the Tower of London from sanctuary at Boisars after he was charged of fraud and embezzlement. 1232
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King Henry III and his Parliament. Under pressure he was obliged to submit to drive Poitevins and other foreigners from the land and to swear to strictly follow their advice in government.
Westminster - 1258
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Death of Simon de Montfort (Earl of Leicester), leader of the barons in The Barons War, at the battle of Evesham - 4 August 1265
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King Edward I acknowledged as suzerain of Scotland because of the absence of an obvious heir to the Scottish throne. 1290
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William Wallace rejects the English proposals carried by two Dominican monks and told them to return with the message that he and his men had come, not for peace, but for war.
1297
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Humphrey de Bohun, earl of Hereford, lord high constable and Roger Bigod, earl of Norfolk, lord marshal of England declare that they are ready to fulfil their hereditary offices. Threathed by King Edward I they unceremoniously withdrew from parliament. 1297
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After being recalled by King Edward II, Piers Gaveston is captured and executed by the rebelling barons and his head shown to the Earl of Lancaster as proof before sending it as a message to the King.
Kenilworth - 19 June 1312
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Sir Henry Bohun, the leader of the English party, recognised Robert Bruce. After fixing his lance, Bohun charged the Scottish king. Bruce darted out of the way of the lance and killed Bohun with a blow from his axe.
Battle of Bannockburn - 24 June 1314
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Thomas, Earl of Lancaster being executed at Pontefract. He allied with the Scots against King Edward II and lost at Boroughbridge in 1322.
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Roger Mortimer and his wife Isabella led a successful invasion of England in 1326 and governed until Edward III overthrew him with the support of the barons in 1330 after Mortimer executed the Duke of Kent, the late king's half brother, for treason. They arrested and executed Mortimer and imprisoned Isabella.
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Battle of Sluys
Declaring war with France and King Philip VI, King Edward III began his naval campaign and the first major conflict of the Hundred Years War with victory at the Battle of Sluys - 1340
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Hundred Years War - The Battle of Crecy
The English army lay down on the ground to rest themselves as they wait for the French troops at Crecy.
Forming three divisions King Edward III took station by a windmill to survey the whole field.
26 August 1346
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Hundred Years War - The Battle of Crecy
King Edward III refuses to assist his son at Crecy and sends words of encouragement with Sir Thomas Norwich for "the boy to win his spurs"
26 August 1346
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Hundred Years War - The Siege of Calais
King Edward III fights incognito under the banner of Manny and after victory Calais remains in English control for over 200 years. Behind the King is Walter Lord Manny with his banner
4 September 1346 - 4 August 1347
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Hundred Years War - The Battle of Poitiers
Prince Edward consoles King John of Artois by serving him at dinner after defeating him at Poitiers.
19 September 1356
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Hundred Years War
After rejecting offers for peace a great storm of thunder and lightning frightens King Edward III , stretching his hand towards the cathedral of Chartres he vows that he will no longer be an obstace of peace. The treaty of Bretigny is signed in little more than three weeks on 8 May 1360
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Edward The Black Prince extorts an amnesty from Pedro The Cruel by refusing to allow his captives to be executed after victory at the Battle of Najara, Spain - 3 April 1367
Behind Edward are the King of Majorca, John of Ghent, Duke of Lancaster and Sir John Chandos
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The Peasants Revolt - 1381
15 June, Smithfield - William Walworth, mayor of London, kills the leader of the rebels, Wat Tyler ,after he refused peace. King Richard II rides out to the remaing rebels to assume command, they obey and leave London.
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Arundel, Gloucester, Nottingham, Derby and Warwick before King Richard II demand the removal of the traitors who were about him.
Westminster - 1387
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Queen Anne intercedes for Sir Simon Burley to Gloucester and Arundel who remained deaf to every entreaty. King Richard II therefore unwillingly had Sir Simon Burley executed, the first recorded execution at Tower Hill - 1388
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King Richard II stops the duel between the duke of Hereford and the duke of Norfolk.
Norfolk expressed revenge on the King in a conversation to Hereford and when word reached the King, Norfolk claimed Hereford was a liar and challenged him to battle. Hereford was sentenced to 10 years exile and Norfolk was banished for life.
1398
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Henry Bollingbroke, Duke of Lancaster usurped the throne while King Richard II was in Ireland. When Richard II returned to England he was captured at Flint where Henry got down on one knee and explained that he wished to officially obtain the throne. 1399
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The lords rage as lord Fitzwalter accuses the duke of Albemarle with the murder of Gloucester. Split in two, the house of lords exchange defiance by throwing down their gages.
1399
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Dying in unknown circumstances the body of Richard of Bordeaux (King Richard II) was brought to St Paul's, London where it lay for two days, in order that the people might know for certain that he was dead. 12 March 1400
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Death of Hotspur (Sir Henry Percy)
The Battle of Shrewsbury, fought on 21 July 1403 between an army led by the Lancastrian King, Henry IV and a rebel army led by members of the Percy family from Northumberland ended in victory for Henry.
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Before King Henry IV, Sir William Gascoigne chief justice of England refuses to sentence death charges of guilt and high treason on Archbishop Scrope (Archbishop of York) and Thomas Mowbray.
1405
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King Henry V marches out against an armed assembly of malcontented Lollards at St Giles's fields. Many of the Lollards were killed or captured but their ringleader, Sir John Oldcastle (Lord Cobham), escaped.
6th January 1414
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The Battle of Agincourt - 25 October 1415
King Henry V is attacked by The Duke of Alencon on the battlefield.
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Marriage of King Henry V to the french princess, Katherine of Valois, twelve days after signature of the Treaty of Troyes.
2 June 1420
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King Charles VI of France and King Henry V welcomed by the clergy as they make their tiumphal entrance to the allied courts in Paris.
1 December 1420
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Joan of Arc (Jeanne Darc , Jeanne d'Arc) otherwise know as "The Maid of Orleans" captured by the Burgundians while defending Compiegne near Paris, she was then sold to the English. Before her capture she led several successful operations against the English inspired by visions and prophecies.
25 May 1430
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The Duchess of Gloucester charged with unlawful commerce with Marjory Jourdemain "the witch of Eye" and conspiring to bring about the death of King Henry VI by magic arts, submitted herself to the correction of the chuch does penance by walking without a hood, from Temple Bar to St Paul's bearing in her hand a lighted taper, and to offer it to the high altar.
13 November 1441
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After banishment by King Henry VI the Duke of Suffolk is intercepted in the Channel by the ship "Nicholas of the Tower" and murdered by the lowest of the crew with a rusty sword, hacking off his head in four or five strokes.
2 May 1450
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Richard, the Duke of York surprised to find Edmund Beaufort, the duke of Somerset by King Henry VI's side after return from Ireland confronts him only to be accused by Somerset of high treason for attempting to usurp the throne.
September 1450
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Lord Fauconbridge leading the vanguard of King Edward IV's army, orders his archers to shoot volleys of arrows and then retire before defeating the Lancastrians at the Battle of Towton.
29 March 1461
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King Edward IV calls in at Grafton, the residence of the Duchess of Bedford and her second husband, Richard Wodeville (lord Rivers) during a hunting excursion in the forest of Wychwood. There he meets and falls in love with Lady Elizabeth Grey, the widow of Sir John Grey, a Lancastrian noble. They were later married in secret.
1464
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The Earl of Warwick submits to Queen Margaret and solicits a pardon on his knees before her, thus allowing the marriage of her son, Prince Edward (The Prince of Wales) with his daughter, Lady Anne Neville to go ahead. This union in France with the support of King Louis XI launched a new Lancastrian invasion against the king.
1470
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Death of Richard Neville, the earl of Warwick "the Kingmaker" at the Battle of Barnet by troops of King Edward IV
14 April 1471
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Battle of Tewksbury - 4 May 1471
Murder of Prince Edward after capture by King Edward IV
On the right of the King is Richard, Duke of Gloucester immediately behind him Lord Hastings and on his left The Duke of Clarence.
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King Edward IV and King Louis XI of France lay their hands onn the missal and the cross, swear to observe their respective engagements to complete the Treaty of Pecquigny
29 August 1475
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Richard, The Duke of Gloucester (later King Richard III) orders the arrrest of Lord William Hastings for treason in showing antipathy to the Woodvilles and becomes the first recorded execution at the Tower of London.
13 June 1483
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Richard, Duke of Gloucester, invited to assume the crown by the duke of Buckingham after the marriage between the late King and Elizabeth Grey is declared void by being brought about by witchcraft and sorcery. Their son King Edward V is therefore declared illegitimate.
25 June 1483
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Duke of Buckingham leading a rebellion against King Richard III attempts to cross the Severn at Gloucester but ten days of storms and rain swelled the waters so it became impassable.
18 October 1483
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King Richard III rides a charge at the Battle of Bosworth Field but the last Plantagenet king is is killed leaving a new Tudor dynasty with King Henry VII
22 August 1485
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