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-8050 to 1490   1750 to 1829   1870 to 1899   1930 to 1959  

THIS page lists events and other information related to the time line from 8050 BC to 1490 AD.   Pages we have reference material on have been listed with the in extra information column of this table.

 

Year

Event Area Extra material page or link
-8050 Mesolithic Hunter/gatherers settle in the area, which will become Merseyside.   

-50 Celtic settlers, probably in the area. The only real evidence of this is some place names, like Ince which in Gealic means island, in this case in the marsh.    
650 Saxons settle in the area, after the retreat of the Romans. Place names are the main evidence of this with Sefton and Marton.  

902 The first official authenticated evidence of Viking settlement in the area, this is from an Irish manuscript detailing the wish to settle in lands and not have to fight anymore, the area given to the Vikings was the Wirral peninsula, supposedly uninhabited and therefore uninhabitable, for anyone but Vikings. There is still some tenuous evidence that the Vikings may have settled here earlier, and that the 902 Vikings wanted to join the already small but established Viking settlement there, but there is no written evidence to back this up, just some dates from relics which cover a slightly earlier time frame. The Viking mentioned in the manuscript were all Norsemen meaning they came from Norway as opposed to the Danes which came from Denmark. The Danes settled most of the eastern side of England where the Norsemen settled this NW side of England. The settlement if any that was here before them could have been Danes who had migrated across the country from York to set up trade with the Irish. Thus establishing why the Norsemen would know about a settlement on the NW coast of England.  





907 Attacks on Chester by the Vikings in an attempt o gain richer lands than their own for their use. The Wirral peninsula being a bit wet and largely unsuitable for farming.  
908 Settlement in the south of Chester by the conquering Vikings leads to a Viking quarter in the city.
Recommended book Viking Mersey, by Stephen Harding.  ISBN 1901231 34 8   Published by A Countryvise Publication, Wirral UK in 2002.
 
937 The Battle of Brunanburh probably at Brombourgh fought between the forces of Aethelred and the Vikings.  
1002 Massacre of St. Brice's day, an attempt by Ethelred to exterminate the Danes in England.    
1014 The last official expulsion of Vikings from Ireland after the Battle of the Clontarf.    
1016 King Canute becomes King of England, start of the Danish Empire.    
1066 Norman invasion of England.    
1086 Doomsday book compiled by the order of William the I    
1086 Woolton Village recorded in the Doomsday book.  

1099 First Crusade, under Godfrey of Bouilton, takes Jerusalem.    
1119 Knights Templer Order founded. They are the origins of the Masons.    
1135 Stephen takes the Crown and throne of England and starts a civil war with Matilda and creates chaos in England.    
1148 Second Crusade fails it's objectives.    
1150 Birkenhead Priory, founded by the Benedictines.    
1154 Henry of Anjou succeeds Stephen and is the first of the Plantagenet kings of England.    
1189 The third Crusade is launched, the leaders are Richard the Lionheart of England, Frederick Barbarossa, and Philip Augustus of France.    
1192 The end of the Third Crusade, without ever regaining Jerusalem, Ricjard the First is captured on his way through Austria and ransomed.    
1202 Fourth Crusade starts, but fails to do anything.    
1207 King John makes Liverpool a royal borough.  

1252 The Stanleys build their townhouse on the Liverpool shore.    
1284 Edward the First finishes his conquest of Wales, and looks towards Scotland.    
1290 Expulsion of Jews from England.    
1314 Battle of Bannockburn, Robert the Bruce secures Scottish Independence.    
1330 Benedictine Monks of Birkenhead Priory granted the right of ferry cross the Mersey, by King Edward the III even though ferries had already been running across the Mersey for a long time.    
1338 Start of the Hundred Years War between England and France.    
1349 Black Death reaches England, only took a year from the rest of Europe, and it will take a further year to reach Scotland.    
1362 English becomes the official language in the Law Courts and parliament.    
1381 Peasant revolt led by Wat Tyler.    
1399 Richard the Second deposed by Henry IV, first of the Lancastrian Kings.    
1404 Sir John Stanley has the Liverpool Tower built, this was actually his home, which he was allowed to fortify by order of Henry the IV. He used stones from his older town house to do this.    
1415 Battle of Agincourt.    
1455 Start of the War of the Roses.    
1470 Warwick 'the kingmaker' turns Lancastrian and dethrones Edward the IV.    
1471 Return of Edward the IV and the crushing defeat of the Lancastrians at Barnet and Tewkesbury.    
1485 Battle of Bosworth field and the start of the Tudor Period.    
1490 Speke Hall building work started.  
     

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