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The Battle of Hastings[ a] was fought on 14 October 1066 between the Norman-French army of William, Duke of Normandy, and an English army under the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson, beginning the Norman Conquest of England. It took place approximately 7 mi (11 km) northwest of Hastings, close to the present-day town of Battle, East Sussex, and ...
5 March Henry II, the future king of England (r. 1154-1189), is born in Le Mans, France, to parents Geoffrey V of Anjou and Matilda. 1135: The Anarchy began, a civil war resulting from a dispute over succession to the throne that lasted until 1153. 1138
Location of major events during the Norman Conquest in 1066. The Norman Conquest (or the Conquest) was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army made up of thousands of Norman, French, Flemish, and Breton troops, all led by the Duke of Normandy, later styled William the Conqueror . William's claim to the English throne ...
March 5. March 5 is the 64th day of the year (65th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 301 days remain until the end of the year.
14 April – 1820 United Kingdom general election, begun on 6 March, concludes with an increased Tory party majority. [ 7] 1 May – the Cato Street conspirators are the last to suffer judicial decapitation in the UK following their public hanging for treason outside Newgate Prison in London (legally, a mitigation of the last sentence in ...
Showing the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam — the deadliest single day in the American Civil War [s 2] [s 3] The Scourged Back: c. 2 April 1863: McPherson & Oliver: Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States One of the most widely distributed photos of the abolitionist movement. [s 3] Execution of the Lincoln Conspirators at Washington Arsenal ...
IRA bombs explode in Whitehall and the Old Bailey in London. 10 March – The governor of Bermuda, Sir Richard Sharples, and his aide-de-camp are assassinated. [ 6 ] 17 March – Elizabeth II opens the replacement London Bridge. [ 7 ] 21 March – Seven men are killed in the Lofthouse Colliery disaster in Yorkshire.
UK. England. Cambridgeshire. 52°33′04″N 0°05′17″E / . 52.551°N 0.088°E. / 52.551; 0.088. March is a Fenland market town and civil parish in the Isle of Ely area of Cambridgeshire, England. It was the county town of the Isle of Ely which was a separate administrative county from 1889 to 1965. The administrative centre of ...