{"slug": "east-anglia", "label": "East Anglia", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Anglia", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q580631", "qid": "Q580631", "description": "region of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", "entries": 18, "years": 18, "span": [60, 1553], "span_label": ["60 CE", "1553 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 6}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 4}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 4}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}], "related": [{"slug": "mercia", "label": "Mercia", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "roman-empire", "label": "Roman Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "seneca-the-younger", "label": "Seneca the Younger", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-northumbria", "label": "Kingdom of Northumbria", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-scotland", "label": "Kingdom of Scotland", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "edinburgh", "label": "Edinburgh", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "john-king-of-england", "label": "John, King of England", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "vikings", "label": "Vikings", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sweyn-forkbeard", "label": "Sweyn Forkbeard", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "england", "label": "England", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-kent", "label": "Kingdom of Kent", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-essex", "label": "Kingdom of Essex", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 60, "year_label": "60 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Prasutagus, king of the Iceni (modern East Anglia), dies leaving a will which passes his kingdom to his two daughters and the Roman Empire. The Roman army, however, annexes the kingdom as if conquered, depriving the nobles of their hereditary lands and plundering the land. The king's widow, Boudica, is flogged and forced to watch their daughters publicly raped. Roman financiers, including Seneca the Younger, call in their loans.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372200754#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 60", "revid": 1372200754, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 61, "year_label": "61 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Prasutagus, king of the Iceni (modern East Anglia), dies leaving a will which passes his kingdom to his two daughters and the Roman Empire. The Roman army however annexes the kingdom as if conquered, depriving the nobles of their hereditary lands and plundering the land. The king's widow, Boudica, is flogged and forced to watch their daughters publicly raped. Roman financiers, including Seneca the Younger, call in their loans.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364752182#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 61", "revid": 1364752182, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 615, "year_label": "615 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Edwin of Northumbria takes refuge in East Anglia; he marries Cwenburga, daughter of king Cearl of Mercia (according to the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364752554#Britain", "title": "615", "revid": 1364752554, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"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": 650, "year_label": "650 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The Mercians under King Penda move on East Anglia, destroy the monastery at Burgh Castle and expel King Anna who probably flees to Magonsæte (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340804422#Britain", "title": "650", "revid": 1340804422, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 673, "year_label": "673 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Æthelthryth, Anglo-Saxon princess, returns to East Anglia and founds the Abbey of Ely (Cambridgeshire). At about this time a small nunnery is also founded in her name, in Stow Green.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340805471#Religion", "title": "673", "revid": 1340805471, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 709, "year_label": "709 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Ceolred becomes king of Mercia, after his cousin Coenred abdicates the throne. Dynastic rivalries lead to the banishment of his second cousin, prince Æthelbald, who flees to the East Anglian controlled Crowland Fens.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340807109#Britain", "title": "709", "revid": 1340807109, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 825, "year_label": "825 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Ellandun: King Egbert of Wessex defeats Beornwulf of Mercia near Swindon. The battle marks the end of the Mercian domination of southern England. The kingdoms of Kent, Surrey, Sussex and Essex submit to Wessex, and East Anglia acknowledges Egbert as overlord (bretwalda).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340941320#Britain", "title": "825", "revid": 1340941320, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 826, "year_label": "826 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Beornwulf of Mercia invades East Anglia, but is killed in battle. He is succeeded by Ludeca, as ruler of Mercia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340941323#Britain", "title": "826", "revid": 1340941323, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 870, "year_label": "870 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Autumn – The Great Heathen Army, led by Ivar the Boneless and Ubba, invades East Anglia and plunders Peterborough. King Edmund the Martyr is captured, tortured, beaten and used for archery practice (or 869).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341129562#Britain", "title": "870", "revid": 1341129562, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 962, "year_label": "962 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Æthelwald, ealdorman of East Anglia", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341513175#Deaths", "title": "962", "revid": 1341513175, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 992, "year_label": "992 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Æthelwine, ealdorman of East Anglia", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364919750#Deaths", "title": "992", "revid": 1364919750, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1003, "year_label": "1003 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Sweyn I (Forkbeard) lands with a Danish Viking fleet in East Anglia, ravaging the countryside. Northumbria surrenders to him (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369535158#England", "title": "1003", "revid": 1369535158, "section": "Events › By place › England"}}, {"year": 1017, "year_label": "1017 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Cnut divides England into four earldoms: Wessex, Mercia, East Anglia and Northumbria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342212758#England", "title": "1017", "revid": 1342212758, "section": "Events › England"}}, {"year": 1070, "year_label": "1070 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Spring – King Sweyn II of Denmark joins rebels in England led by Hereward the Wake and captures the Isle of Ely in The Fens of East Anglia. On June 1 Hereward sacks Peterborough Abbey with support from Sweyn's Danes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1327891061#Events", "title": "1070", "revid": 1327891061, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1216, "year_label": "1216 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Spring – First Barons' War: The English army, led by John, King of England (\"Lackland\"), sacks the town of Berwick-on-Tweed and raids southern Scotland. John pushes up towards Edinburgh over a ten-day period. On his return, he puts down a revolt in East Anglia. On March 24, he arrives at Hertford to deal with the challenge of a coming French invasion.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371079230#Europe", "title": "1216", "revid": 1371079230, "section": "Events › By continent › Europe"}}, {"year": 1549, "year_label": "1549 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 8", "text": "July 8 – Kett's Rebellion, with 18,000 troops led by Robert Kett, breaks out at Wymondham in East Anglia, against fences and enclosures put up by wealthy landowners. and in Oxfordshire, against landowners associated with religious changes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362482759#July–September", "title": "1549", "revid": 1362482759, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1553, "year_label": "1553 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "August 3", "text": "August 3 – Queen Mary I of England arrives in London from East Anglia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362480437#July–September", "title": "1553", "revid": 1362480437, "section": "Events › July–September"}}]}