Somerset

ceremonial county of England (use Q21694741 for administrative non-metropolitan county)

16 dated entries naming Somerset, drawn from 16 separate years between 658 CE and 1846 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.

Also written as Somersetshire in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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7th century

658Battle of Peonnum: King Cenwalh and the Wessex Saxons make a push against Dumnonia (South West England). They are victorious at Penselwood in Somerset, and the Dumnonia-Wessex border is set at the River Parrett (approximate date).source

8th century

720King Ine of Wessex builds a stone church at Glastonbury Abbey in Somerset (approximate date).source
731King Æthelbald of Mercia overruns a large portion of Somerset, and wrests the county from Wessex control (approximate date).source

9th century

836Battle of Carhampton: Danish Vikings arrive in the Wessex areas of Somerset and North Devon. Ecgberht, King of Wessex fights them but is forced to withdraw.source
878May – Battle of Edington: Supported by all the levies of Somerset, Wiltshire and Hampshire, Alfred the Great decisively defeats the main body of Danish Vikings, led by King Guthrum, at modern-day Edington, Wiltshire (near Bratton Castle).source

10th century

955November 23 – King Eadred (or Edred) dies childless after a 9-year reign at Frome (Somerset). He is succeeded by his 15-year-old nephew, Eadwig, as King of England.source
973May 15 – Byrhthelm, bishop of Wells (Somerset)source
975June 28 – Cyneweard, bishop of Wells (Somerset)source

12th century

1155Henry II grants the city of Bristol ('Brycgstow') a Royal charter, and is divided between Gloucestershire and Somerset (until 1373).source
1170This is the earliest date for the making of cheddar cheese in Somerset (this is according to a pipe roll of Henry II, who purchases 10,240 lb of cheddar at a farthing per pound).source

14th century

1383Completion of the original inner courtyard of Farleigh Hungerford Castle in Somersetshire, England.source
1397February 10 – John Beaufort becomes Earl of Somerset in England.source

17th century

1645July 10 – English Civil War: Battle of Langport – Cromwell wins in Somerset.source
1693The Anglo-Saxon Alfred Jewel is discovered at North Petherton in Somerset.source

19th century

1814The Benedictine monastic community is established at Downside in Somerset.source
1846Agapemone, a Christian sect and community, is founded by Rev. Henry Prince at Spaxton, Somerset.source