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Battle of Reading
Killed at the Battle of Reading. A camp is set up & the Saxon army joins Aethelwulf but he is killed by the Danes
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Browse historical events and people recorded at Reading in England. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Killed at the Battle of Reading. A camp is set up & the Saxon army joins Aethelwulf but he is killed by the Danes
Death of Aethelred I, killed at the Battle of Reading
Alfred and Aethelred are defeated by the Danes at Reading after the Viking army occupies the town.
The Danes defeat Aethelred and Alfred at Reading before the West Saxon victory at Ashdown.
Buried in the chancel of Reading Abbey
Attacks the Crowns use of pluralities, supplementing the incomes of civil servants. Announces those who violate the Magna Carta should be excommunicated
Announces those who violate the Magna Carta should be excommunicated
Philippa marries Edmund Mortimer and links Clarence inheritance to the Mortimers
Edmund Mortimer marries Philippa of Clarence
Charles reaches Reading while advancing toward London after Edgehill.
Charles reaches Reading while advancing toward London after Edgehill.
Charles reaches Reading while Parliamentarian forces reorganise nearer London.
Charles reaches Reading while Parliamentarian forces reorganise nearer London.
The Royalist Reading garrison is handed over to the Roundheads
Surrenders Reading to the Parliamentarians under Essex
Captures Reading for the Parliamentarians & prevents Charles I from reaching London
Devereux defeats a Royalist force at Newburn & is able to move on to Reading
Ireton helps shape the Grandees' moderate constitutional programme, drafting the Heads of the Proposals to secure limited monarchy, parliamentary reform and protection for the Army
Lambert works with Ireton and the senior officers on the Heads of the Proposals, giving the Grandees an alternative settlement to both Parliament's Newcastle Propositions and Leveller radicalism
Ireton presents a draft settlement to the General Council of the Army, seeking a constitutional agreement after the First Civil War that would limit monarchy while avoiding the harsher Newcastle Propositions
Lambert helps shape the Army's proposed settlement, working with Ireton on terms intended to reconcile King, Parliament and Army after the defeat of Charles I
Wildman is involved among the Army's radical civilian allies as the Heads of the Proposals are debated, but later criticises the plan for reflecting the King's interests too strongly
Petty takes part in the wider radical pressure around the Army Council, seeking stronger constitutional guarantees than those finally contained in the Heads of the Proposals
Walwyn is connected with the radical civilian circle consulted during the Army's settlement discussions, but the resulting Heads fall short of Leveller demands for popular sovereignty
Ireton's Heads of the Proposals are advanced as the Army leadership's constitutional settlement, aiming to restore Charles I under limited monarchy while protecting Parliament and the Army
Cromwell supports the Heads of the Proposals as a moderate Army settlement that would preserve limited monarchy while securing parliamentary and religious safeguards
Fairfax's Army leadership approves the completed Heads of the Proposals as the New Model Army's official basis for a national settlement
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