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At over 1,000 tons, she is the largest warship in the world at this time. [9] [57] [58] ... July–December: Plague in London, which recurs in the 2 following years.
Field, Jacob F. London, Londoners and the Great Fire of 1666: Disaster and Recovery (2018) Fowler, James. London Transport: A Hybrid in History 1905-48 (Emerald Group Publishing, 2019). Hanlon, W. Walker. Pollution and Mortality in the 19th Century (UCLA and NBER, 2015) online; Jackson, Lee. Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth ...
1212 Great Fire of 1212 began in July in Southwark, London; 1215 Magna Carta is agreed by King John at Runnymede; 1216 Death of King John, Henry III succeeds to the throne of England; 1237 Border between Scotland and England by the Treaty of York; 1240 Death of Llywelyn ab Iorwerth, prince of Wales; Dafydd ap Llywelyn succeeds to the throne of ...
This article lists the largest human settlements in the world (by population) over time, as estimated by historians, from 7000 BC when the largest human settlement was a proto-city in the ancient Near East with a population of about 1,000–2,000 people, to the year 2000 when the largest human settlement was Tokyo with 26 million.
£36,000 of Danegeld paid to the Vikings in return for them not raiding England for two years. [1] 1008. Æthelred and Archbishop Wulfstan of York pass laws for the protection of Christianity in England. [1] 1009. New English fleet assembled. [1] 1 August – Vikings occupy Sandwich, Kent, attack London, and burn Oxford. [1]
c. 1000: The tower is believed to have been built around c.1000, although the bell louvers were added in 1586. The tower contains 6 bells, the oldest of which was cast in 1588 Holy Trinity Church: Colchester, Essex, England 1020 Oldest building in Colchester, which has an Anglo-Saxon tower with an arrow head doorway.
The mighty baobab has grown across mainland Africa, Madagascar and Australia for millions of years. But until now, scientists disputed where they came from. Finally, an answer to a mystery ...
Archaeologists were for many years puzzled as to where early Anglo-Saxon London was located, as they could find little evidence of occupation within the Roman city walls from this period. However, in the 1980s, London was rediscovered, after extensive independent excavations by archaeologists Alan Vince and Martin Biddle were reinterpreted as ...