Timeline of Somerset history
Key dates in the History of Somerset
- 43–47 Roman invasion and occupation
- 491 Battle of Mons Badonicus (may have been fought in Somerset) (uncertain date)
- 537 Battle of Camlann (sometimes located at Queen Camel) (uncertain date)
- 577 Battle of Deorham (Dyrham, Gloucestershire) – Saxons occupied Bath
- 658 Battle of Peonnum (Penselwood ?) – Saxons then occupied most of Somerset
- 710 Battle of Llongborth (? Langport)
- 845 First documentary reference to "Somersæte"
- 878 Battle of Cynwit – Saxon victory over the Danes by Ealdorman Odda
- 878 Battle of Ethandun – West Saxon victory over the Danes (uncertain whether in Somerset or Wiltshire)
- 878 Treaty of Wedmore – after defeat of Danes by King Alfred the Great
- c900 Kings of Wessex hold court at Cheddar
- 973 King Edgar of England crowned at Bath
- 988 St Dunstan buried at Glastonbury
- 1013 Danish king Sweyn Forkbeard received submission of western thegns at Bath
- 1088 Siege of Ilchester
- 1191 Discovery of "King Arthur's" tomb at Glastonbury
- 1497 Perkin Warbeck's rebellion supported by Somerset men
- 1643 Battle of Lansdowne
- 1645 Siege of Taunton during the English Civil War
- 1685 Battle of Sedgemoor – Duke of Monmouth defeated
- 1685 Judge Jeffries holds the "Bloody Assizes" at Taunton
- 1770 Start of major enclosures of Somerset Levels
- 1805 Somerset Coal Canal Opened
- 1827 Bridgwater and Taunton Canal opened
- 1875 Formation of Somerset County Cricket Club
- 1898 County boundaries altered
- 1956 Chew Valley Lake opened by Queen Elizabeth II
- 1974 Formation of County of Avon, reducing the area of the County of Somerset
- 1996 Abolition of the County of Avon, creating the unitary authorities of North Somerset and Bath and North East Somerset
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