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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
24 March. England – Death of Queen Elizabeth I. James VI of Scotland crowned King of England (as James I of England ). 1605. 5 November. England and Scotland – The Gunpowder plot is uncovered, in which Guy Fawkes and others attempted to blow up the king, James VI and I and the Parliament of England . 1606.
1800. 8 January: The first soup kitchens are opened in London. [ 1] 13 January: The Royal Institution is granted a royal charter. [ 2] 22 March: The Company of Surgeons is granted a royal charter to become the Royal College of Surgeons in London. [ 2] 15 May: George III survives 2 assassination attempts in London.
11 August – Aliens Act 1905, the first modern legislation to control immigration into the U.K. [ 14] 12 August – First running of the Shelsley Walsh Speed Hill Climb, the world's oldest motorsport event to have been staged continuously on its original course. 25 August – ' Ancient Order of Druids ' initiate neo-druidic rituals at Stonehenge.
7 August. Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925 passed in the aftermath of Lloyd George 's sale of peerages and other honours for political party funds. [ 10] National Library of Scotland established by Act of Parliament to take over the national responsibilities of the Advocates' Library in Edinburgh. 2 October – In London :
27 April – ending of the First Anglo-Ashanti War (1823–1831). 28 April–1 June – general election results in a Whig victory, and a mandate for electoral reform. [3] May–June – Merthyr Rising in Merthyr Tydfil. 30 May – census in the United Kingdom. 1 June – Royal Navy officer and explorer James Clark Ross leads the first ...
1652 – John Hull and Robert Sanderson begin producing Massachusetts colonial coinage. 1656 – Ann Hibbins hanged as a witch. 1657 – Scots Charitable Society of Boston founded. 1658 – Town-House built. 1660. June 1: Mary Dyer hanged as a Quaker. Copp's Hill Burying Ground and Granary Burying Ground established.
The territory today known as England became inhabited more than 800,000 years ago, as the discovery of stone tools and footprints at Happisburgh in Norfolk have indicated. [1] The earliest evidence for early modern humans in Northwestern Europe , a jawbone discovered in Devon at Kents Cavern in 1927, was re-dated in 2011 to between 41,000 and ...