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English people

citizens or residents of England

16 dated entries naming English people, drawn from 16 separate years between 1337 CE and 1891 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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14th century

  • 1337March 16 – Edward the Black Prince establishes the Duchy of Cornwall, becoming the first English Duke.source
  • 1399September 22 – Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1366)source

16th century

  • 1561August 20 – English merchant Anthony Jenkinson arrives in Moscow on his second expedition to the Grand Duchy of Moscow.source
  • 1562March 15 – English merchant Anthony Jenkinson has an audience with Ivan the Terrible in Moscow, before departing the city on April 27 and continuing his second expedition through the Grand Duchy of Moscow to Qazvin, capital of the Safavid dynasty in Persia.source
  • 1564September 28 – English merchant Anthony Jenkinson returns to London from his second expedition to the Grand Duchy of Moscow, having gained a considerable extension of trading rights for the English Muscovy Company.source
  • 1584June 4 – Walter Raleigh sends Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe to explore the Outer Banks of Virginia (modern-day North Carolina), with a view to establishing an English colony; they locate Roanoke Island.source
  • 1591April 10 – English merchant James Lancaster sets off on a voyage to the East Indies.source

17th century

  • 1675April – English merchant Anthony de la Roché, blown off course after rounding Cape Horn eastabout, makes the first discovery of land south of the Antarctic Convergence, landing on South Georgia and (probably) Gough Island.source
  • 1686English historian and naturalist Robert Plot publishes The Natural History of Staffordshire, a collection of illustrations and texts detailing the history of the county. It is the first document known to mention crop circles and a double sunset.source
  • 1695September 7 – English pirate Henry Every perpetrates one of the most profitable raids in history, with the capture of the Grand Mughal ship Ganj-i-Sawai. In response, Emperor Aurangzeb threatens to put an end to all English trading in India.source

18th century

  • 1720January 31 – Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, English privy councilor (b. c. 1645)source
  • 1728English astronomer James Bradley uses stellar aberration (first observed in 1725) to calculate the speed of light, and observes nutation of the Earth's axis.source
  • 1732March 3 – English Captain Charles Gough rediscovers Gough Island in the South Atlantic.source

19th century

  • 1840January 18 – Alfred Percy Sinnett, English writer and theosophist (d. 1921)source
  • 1865July 14 – First ascent of the Matterhorn: The summit of the Matterhorn in the Alps is reached for the first time, by a party of 7 led by the Englishman Edward Whymper; 4 die in a fall during the descent.source
  • 1891April 5 – Census in the United Kingdom: 15.6 million people live in cities of 20,000 or more in England and Wales, and cities of 20,000 or more account for 54% of the total English population.source

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