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927: Athelstan evicted the Cornish from Exeter and refortified the city. [24] 934: Æthelstan's invasion of Scotland; 936: King Athelstan set the boundary between England and Cornwall at the River Tamar. [24] [25] 937: Æthelstan's victory at the Battle of Brunanburh; 946: ... And Strathclyde was laid waste by the Saxons. [26] AC
1942 – May: "Baedeker Blitz": Aerial bombing by the German Luftwaffe devastates the city centre. [1] 1949 – 21 October: Official inauguration of construction of Princesshay, Britain's first pedestrianised shopping precinct, as part of the postwar city centre reconstruction. [24] 1955 – University of Exeter chartered. 1960 – October: Flood.
925 the Cornish were evicted from Exeter by King Athelstan of England who subdues Cornwall and defines the border of Cornwall with England at the River Tamar. 937 The Battle of Brunanburh AKA "the Great War" reputedly the bloodiest battle ever fought on British soil and where 5 kings died according to the Anglo-Saxon chroncles.
Parliamentary forces invaded Cornwall three times and burned the Duchy archives. In 1645 Cornish Royalist leader Sir Richard Grenville, 1st Baronet made Launceston his base and he stationed Cornish troops along the River Tamar and issued them with instructions to keep "all foreign troops out of Cornwall". Grenville tried to use "Cornish ...
1644 August 31: Cornish Royalist victory at the Second Battle of Lostwithiel. 1645 Cornish Royalist leader Sir Richard Grenville, 1st Baronet makes Launceston his base and he stations Cornish troops along the River Tamar and issues them with instructions to keep "all foreign troops out of Cornwall". Grenville tries to use "Cornish particularist ...
The Gear Rout was a Cornish insurrection of 1648 following the end of the First English Civil War. The killing of 70 Cornish Royalists in Penzance on 16 May 1648 prompted a failed rebellion by some 500 Cornish rebels who fought against the Parliamentarian forces of Sir Hardress Waller at a site near the Helford River. [13]