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Gloucestershire

ceremonial county in England (use Q21694733 for administrative non-metropolitan county)

8 dated entries naming Gloucestershire, drawn from 6 separate years between 628 CE and 1817 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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7th century

  • 628Battle of Cirencester: King Penda of Mercia defeats the West Saxons at Cirencester (South West England) in what later will be Gloucestershire. After reaching an agreement, he takes control of the Severn Valley and the minor kingdom of the Hwicce.source

12th century

  • 1119September 19 – A severe earthquake hits Gloucestershire and Warwickshire.source
  • 1155Henry II grants the city of Bristol ('Brycgstow') a Royal charter, and is divided between Gloucestershire and Somerset (until 1373).source

14th century

  • 1327April 5 – Edward II is moved to Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire. He is kept under the custody of Roger Mortimer's son-in-law, Thomas Berkeley and John Maltravers, who are given £5 a day to look after him. Despite records showing luxury goods being bought for him, Edward is possibly mistreated by his captors.source
  • 1327December 20 – The late King Edward II of England is buried in the Gloucester Cathedral in Gloucestershire, three months after his death.source
  • 1327September 21 – Less than a year after his arrest, the former King of England, Edward II, is brutally murdered in Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire.source
  • 1384Katharine Lady Berkeley's School is founded in Gloucestershire, England.source

19th century

  • 1817April 3 – "Princess Caraboo" appears in Almondsbury in Gloucestershire in England, and convinces the local residents that she had come to their town from a far-off island kingdom of "Javasu" in the Indian Ocean. A Portuguese sailor named Manuel Enes soon arrives and says that he speaks her mysterious language, and translates her story of an escape from pirates. After publicity, Princess Caraboo is discovered to be a servant girl from the village of Witheridge in Devon.source

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