286 B. C. -- Hortensian Law, final Capitulation of the
Patricians. (Livy's "History").
280 B. C. -- Pyrrhus, King of Epirus, defeats the Romans.
(Plutarch's "Life of Pyrrhus")
212 B. C. -- The Ludi Apollinares begin. The Appolinarian Games in
honor of Apollo established in Rome due to the words of a seer, Marcius. They occurred every 4 years. Peck, Harper's Dictionary of Class. Lit. and Antiquities.
457 A. D. -- Hengist and Æsc his son fought against the Britons at the place called Cregan Ford, and there slew four thousand men; and the Britons then forsook Kent and in great terror fled to London. --- Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
458 A. D. -- A great storm was experienced at York, which blew down several houses, and killed many persons. #
467 A. D. -- Hilary establishes two libraries in the Basilica of the Lateran Palace in Rome. First mention of a Papal library.
665 A. D. -- Venerable Bede (of Jarrow,) the historian, born. He mentions Leeds, styling it "Loidas." #
678 A. D. -- A comet was visible in England every day for three months.
700 A. D. -- In this year there was no fewer than fifteen kings or chiefs within the island [ of Britain ], while Ireland was nearly in the same situation. #
734 A. D. -- Charles Martel overuns Friesland, "destroying the pagan idols."
751 A. D.- Pippin crowned King of the Franks, by Boniface, by the Order of Pope Zacharias.
754 A. D. -- St. Boniface killed by heathens at Docking (or
Dockum, per hodgkin), in Friesland:
"Forbidding his companions to resist, and merely holding up his gospel-book to ward off the sword from his grey hairs, he met his death." **
758 A. D. - Pippin, King of the Franks, dies at Paris.
774 A. D.- The Rule of the Lombards, comes to an end, when Pavia fell to Charlemagne, after a siege of 10 months. He is now styled King of the Franks and Lombards and Patrician of Rome Desiderius was the last Lombard King, and he now enters a monastery in Austrasia.
793 A. D. -- The Vikings attack and pillage Lindisfarne.
886 A. D. -- King Ælfred restored London; and all the Angle-race turned to him that were not in the bondage of the Danish men; and he then committed the burgh to the keeping of the aldorman Æthered. ---- Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
974 A. D. -- There was an earthquake throughout the whole of England. (Annals of Roger de Hoveden.)
c. 991 A. D. --The Battle of Maldon, another historic war poem, from the Angl0-Saxon Chronicle.
1000 -1065
1002 A. D. -- Danes conquered England. *
1015 A. D. -- Children were forbidden by law to be sold by their parents in England. #
1018 A. D. -- In this year the tribute was paid over all the Angle- race [to King Canute] : that was in all two and seventy thousand pounds, exclusive of what the townsmen of London paid, which was ten and a half thousand pounds. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
Bertran de Born, (1140 A. D. - c. 1215 A. D. -- early troubador poet and nobleman of France. A contemporary biography, some poems, and a modern description of his life and work, by Barbara Smythe.
1164 A. D. -- Letter from Henry II to the Sheriffs, ordering them to arrest anybody who appeals to the court of Rome, and the adherents (including their family members) of Thomas Becket.
1189 A. D. -- This year Richard I. [ the Lion-hearted ] commenced his reign. Coats of arms were not in use in England until this time the custom being derived from the Crusades. #
1329 A. D. -- A Proclamation of Edward III. for preserving peace and order in London, before he leaves to pay homage to the King of France.
1346 A. D. -- A female vegetarian found in England called Jewet Meatless. The priests decided that it was not sinful to be so, since she went to Church regularly. ---- in Capgrave's Chronicle of England.
1612 A. D. -- John Rolfe first plants tobacco at his plantation, Farmingdell, in Virginia. He lived there with his wife Pokahontas and their son Thomas.
1618 A. D. -- Sir Walter Raleigh, aged 66 years, beheaded on October 29 (H. G.) *
1684 A. D. -- Frost in England for thirteen weeks. *
1700-1799 A. D.
1702 A. D. -- First daily newspaper started in England, the Daily Courant.
1712 A. D. -- Dr. John Arbuthnot coins the name John Bull, for the averagE Englishman in a series of political pamphlets.
1721 A. D. -- Inoculation first tried on criminals. (Trus. Chron.)*