Yelverton and District Local History Society

Timeline comparing local and global events

 

Local

Kings

Wars

Happenings

Inventions

2Million

 

 

 

 

Paleolithic
(old stone age)

8000BC

 

 

 

 

Stone Age
(herding and agriculture)

3500BC

 

 

 

 

Bronze Age

1500BC

 

 

 

 

Iron Age

650BC

 

 

Invasion of British Isles by Celts.

 

Celts bring Iron Age technology and Druidic religion. Hill forts built.

100BC

 

 

55BC - Caesar's invasion of Britain

 

 

0AD

 

 

410 - Roman legions withdrawn

 

 

500

 

802 - Egbert
855 - Aethelbald
860 - Aethelbert
866 - Aethelred
871 - Alfred (the Great)
924 - Athelstan
939 - Edmund I
946 - Edred
955 - Edwy
959 - Edgar
975 - Edward the Martyr
978 - Ethelred the Unready

518 - British defeat the Saxons
878 - Alfred the Great defeats Guthrun

 

 

1000

 

1016 - King Cnut
1035 - Harold I
1040 - Hardecanute
1042 - Edward the Confessor
1066 - Harold II
1066 - William the Conqueror
1087 - William Rufus

1066 - Battle of Hastings

1086 - Domesday Book

 

1100

 

1100 - Henry I
1135 - Stephen
1154 - Henry II
1189 - Richard I
1199 - John

 

 

 

1200

1273 - First Cistercian Monks at Buckland Abbey

1199 - John
1216 - Henry III
1272 - Edward I

 

1215 - Magna Carta

 

1300

 

1307 - Edward II
1327 - Edward III
1377 - Richard II
1399 - Henry IV

1347 - Start of Hundred Years War

1348 to 51 - Black Death

 

1400

 

1413 - Henry V
1422 - Henry VI
1461 - Edward IV
1483 - Richard III
1485 - Henry VII

1453 - End of Hundred Years War
1455 - Wars of the Roses begins

1453 - Gutenberg prints first bible
1492 - Columbus arrives at America

 

1500

1540 - Francis Drake born
1541 Sir Richard Grenville purchased Buckland Abbey.
1558 - Virtuous Lady Mine Opened
1582 - Francis Drake purchased Buckland Abbey
1590 - Drake's Leat opened
1596 - Death of Sir Francis

1509 - Henry VIII
1547 - Edward V
1553 - Mary
1558 - Elizabeth I

1577 to 80 - Drake circumnavigates the world in Golden Hind
1588 - Spanish Armada

1536 - Dissolution of monasteries
1566 - Tobacco introduced to England

 

1600

1689 - Devonport naval dockyard established

1603 - James I
1625 - Charles I
1649 - Commonwealth
1660 - Charles II
1685 - James II

1605 - Gunpowder plot
1618 - Thirty Years War
1642 - English Civil War

1620 - Pilgrim Fathers sail
1661 - Postage stamps used
1665 - Great Plague

 

1608 - Telescope - Galileo
1666 - Laws of Gravity - Newton
1698 - steam engine - Thomas Savery

1700

 

1720 - Anne
1714 - George I
1727 - George II
1760 - George III

1756 - Seven Years War

1760 - Start of Industrial Revolution
1768 - Encyclopaedia Britannica

1731 - Sextant - John Hadley

1769 - Steam Engine - Watt
1784 - Threshing machine Andrew Meikle
1796 - Coal gas first used for lighting

1800

1806 - Dartmoor Prison opened
1807 - Virtuous Lady Mine Closed
1810 - Devon Friendship Mine (Near Mary Tavy)
1830 - Virtuous Lady Mine opened again
1898 - Burrator Reservoir opened

 

1820 - George IV
1830 - William IV
1837 - Victoria

1800 - Trafalgar
1815 - Napoleon defeated at Waterloo

1807 -  Slave Trade abolished
1835 - Great Western Railway

1800 - Electric light Sir Humphrey Davy
1820 - electro-magnetic rotation - Faraday
1832 - Electric telegraph - Morse

1850

1870 - Virtuous Lady Mine Closed Again
1876 - Kelly College Opened
1895 - Yelverton Station Opened

 

1853 - Crimean War
1861 - American Civil War
1879 - Zulu War
1881 - Boer War

1884 - Greenwich Mean Time
1885 - National Trust formed

1858 - First Atlantic cable laid.

1900

1910 - Devon Friendship Mine Closed
1940-45 - RAF Station Harrowbeer (Roborough Down)

1901 - Edward VII
1910 - George V
1936 - Edward VIII
1936 - George VI

1914-18 - First World War
1939-45 - Second World War

 

1900 - Human speech by radio waves
1926 - Television - John Logie Baird

1950

1951 - Dartmoor National Park Formed
1952 - Lopwell Dam

1952 - Elizabeth II

1950 - Korean War
1959 - Vietnam War

1957 - Sputnik I launched
1981 - First IBM PC
1994 - 15M people on internet

 



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