| Year |
Event |
| -8050 |
Mesolithic Hunter/gatherers settle in the area, which will become Merseyside.
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| -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.
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| 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.
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| 908 |
Settlement in the south of Chester by the conquering Vikings leads to a Viking quarter in the city.
Recomended 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. |
| 1001 |
Halewood
recorded in the Doomsday book |
| 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.
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| 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 Scotand. |
| 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 started
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