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King of the Anglo-Saxons
Early diplomas styled Athelstan king of the Anglo-Saxons before his conquest of Northumbria.
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Early diplomas styled Athelstan king of the Anglo-Saxons before his conquest of Northumbria.
After taking York, Athelstan increasingly used titles presenting him as king of the English.
Royal diplomas began describing Athelstan as ruler or king of all Britain.
Later Athelstan legislation raised the minimum age for execution after concern about killing very young offenders.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle celebrated Athelstan’s victory in an extended Old English poem.
Athelstan died unmarried and childless, and his half-brother Edmund succeeded to the English throne.
Edgar’s legislation respected good local laws among Danish communities while maintaining royal authority.
Ethelred’s government paid thirty-six thousand pounds to a Viking army after extensive raids.
Edgar Atheling remains a royal claimant but lacks the military support needed to take the throne
Harold learns that Harald Hardrada and Tostig have entered northern England and redirects his attention from the Channel coast.
Harold leads the core of his army south from Yorkshire to confront William before the Normans can advance farther inland.
William I begins his reign over England after the conquest
William leaves Odo of Bayeux and William FitzOsbern with major responsibility for governing England during his absence.
William returns to England as local rebellions threaten Norman authority in several regions.
William backs the replacement of many English bishops and abbots with Norman or continental clergy.
Roger de Breteuil and Ralph de Gael rebel while William is in Normandy, creating a serious aristocratic challenge.
William's officers and loyal bishops defeat the revolt before its leaders can unite their forces effectively.
William rejects a papal request that he perform fealty for the kingdom of England.
William brings additional soldiers from the continent as a precaution against the threatened Danish attack.
A threatened invasion by King Cnut IV of Denmark causes William to strengthen England's military preparedness.
The inquiry records plough teams, meadow, pasture, woodland and other resources that contribute to the value of estates.
Royal commissioners travel through England collecting sworn evidence in local courts for William's national survey.
The survey records who held each estate before the Conquest and who holds it under William.
William's commissioners record past and current estate values to clarify taxation and royal revenue.
Survey returns for most counties are condensed into the volume later known as Great Domesday.
William uses the Domesday inquiry to improve knowledge of the resources available for taxation and defence.
Permits English support for Edward Balliol's invasion of Scotland
Rebels opposing Richard III look to Henry Tudor as an alternative claimant during the failed Buckingham rising.
Humphrey Stafford is removed from sanctuary, convicted of treason and executed after the failed rising.
Francis Lovell and the Stafford brothers launch the first armed Yorkist challenge to Henry VII's new regime.
Henry mobilises royal forces as the Simnel rebellion advances across northern England toward the Midlands.
Henry raises benevolences to help finance preparations for intervention against France.
Henry restricts trade with Burgundy after Margaret of Burgundy supports Perkin Warbeck and other Yorkist opponents.
New financial demands for a campaign against Scotland intensify resentment in Cornwall and help trigger open rebellion.
Perkin Warbeck escapes royal supervision, renewing concern that the pretender could revive opposition to Henry.
Negotiations linked to the Burgundian settlement include a proposed marriage between the widowed Henry VII and Margaret of Austria.
Henry secures exceptionally favourable proposed trading terms from Philip of Burgundy during the latter's enforced stay in England.
George Neville, Lord Bergavenny, receives an enormous fine for illegal retaining, illustrating Henry's late-reign financial enforcement.
Near the end of his life, Henry grants a general pardon covering many offences committed before 10 April.
Is ordained during the late Henrician church period.
Reform preaching is restricted under conservative policy.
Allows captured Scottish nobles to return home under political conditions, seeking to turn prisoners from Solway Moss into supporters of English policy.
Royal visitors begin enforcing Edwardian religious injunctions and encouraging scripture reading, preaching and removal of traditional practices.
The new Order of Communion begins introducing English prayers and communion in both kinds before the first Prayer Book appears.
The first Book of Common Prayer comes into compulsory general use on Whitsunday.
An English Ordinal for the making of bishops, priests and deacons is introduced during Edward's reign.
The Privy Council orders the removal of remaining stone altars and their replacement with communion tables across England.
The revised and more explicitly Protestant Book of Common Prayer comes into general use.
Uses the rebellion's defeat to strengthen her authority.
Episcopal visitations enforce Catholic worship and clerical discipline.
Pole’s programme stresses residence, preaching and clerical standards.
Allen returns briefly to England to encourage Catholics
Ridley becomes a lasting symbol of Protestant resistance under Mary.
Protestants remember Latimer as an Edwardian reform preacher.
Accepts treaty obligations ending authorised English attacks on Spanish shipping and revoking wartime letters of reprisal.
Returns to English service as conflict with Scotland draws experienced officers back home.
Parliament dismantles many ceremonial and disciplinary changes associated with Laud.
Sent to secure Scotland while Parliamentarian forces pursue Charles II into England.
The Convention Parliament is elected on the traditional franchise with Lords and Commons represented.
The Convention Parliament is elected and prepares to settle the return of monarchy.
The Convention Parliament is chosen under the traditional county and borough franchise.
Fox's followers face heavier legal pressure under the Restoration Quaker Act.
Birth of John Holles, later Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Quakers face harsher pressure after Parliament restricts unauthorised religious meetings.
Promoted captain in a foot regiment in June 1672.
Advances to lieutenant-colonel, adding senior regimental responsibility to his rapidly developing military career.
Receives appointment as a brigadier of foot after years of active military and court service.
Promoted major-general three days before the Battle of Sedgemoor.
Succeeds his father, Sir Winston Churchill, after the elder Churchill's death in 1688.
Parliament forces William III of Orange to reduce forces and remove much of his Dutch military establishment from England after the war.
Issues an order concerning the duties of army chaplains before the year's continental campaign.
Records a drawing of a large Jovian spot during renewed nineteenth-century observations of Jupiter.
Victorians present Latimer as a model Protestant preacher.
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