{"slug": "berkshire", "label": "Berkshire", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkshire", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23220", "qid": "Q23220", "description": "ceremonial and non-metropolitan but non-administrative county of England", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [648, 1125], "span_label": ["648 CE", "1125 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "mercia", "label": "Mercia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "wessex", "label": "Wessex", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "london", "label": "London", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "anglo-saxon-chronicle", "label": "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "offa-of-mercia", "label": "Offa of Mercia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "wales", "label": "Wales", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "river-thames", "label": "River Thames", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "halfdan-ragnarsson", "label": "Halfdan Ragnarsson", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "east-anglia", "label": "East Anglia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cenwalh-of-wessex", "label": "Cenwalh of Wessex", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 648, "year_label": "648 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "King Cenwalh of Wessex returns from a 3-year exile in East Anglia, to reclaim his kingdom. He gives 3,000 hides of land around Ashdown to his nephew Cuthred, possibly sub-king of Berkshire (England).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340804464#Britain", "title": "648", "revid": 1340804464, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 740, "year_label": "740 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "King Æthelheard of Wessex dies after a 14-year reign. He is succeeded by his brother (and probably distant relative) Cuthred. Æthelbald of Mercia takes control of Berkshire from Wessex.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352534655#Britain", "title": "740", "revid": 1352534655, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 758, "year_label": "758 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Cynewulf of Wessex retakes Berkshire from the Mercians, and begins a war with the Welsh (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366654492#Britain", "title": "758", "revid": 1366654492, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 779, "year_label": "779 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Bensington: King Offa of Mercia defeats his rival Cynewulf of Wessex at Bensington (modern-day Oxfordshire). He seizes control of Berkshire, and probably London as well. According to sources of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Offa becomes \"King of All England\". Charlemagne writes a letter to him as \"his dearest brother\", but when Offa refuses to let one of Charlemagne's sons marry one of his daughters, Charlemagne threatens to close the ports to English traders.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340848243#Britain", "title": "779", "revid": 1340848243, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 870, "year_label": "870 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Danes, led by Halfdan Ragnarsson and Bagsecg, invade Wessex and take the royal estate at Reading (Berkshire), which Halfdan makes his headquarters. A naval Viking contingent sails up the Thames River.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341129562#Britain", "title": "870", "revid": 1341129562, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 1125, "year_label": "1125 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "March 29", "text": "March 29 – Reading School is founded in Berkshire in England.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365270881#Education", "title": "1125", "revid": 1365270881, "section": "Events › By topic › Education"}}]}