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Wiltshire

ceremonial county of England (use Q21694746 for administrative unitary authority)

16 dated entries naming Wiltshire, drawn from 16 separate years between 556 CE and 1889 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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6th century

  • 556King Cynric and his son Ceawlin of Wessex fight against the Britons at Beranburh, now identified as Barbury Castle (Wiltshire) in South West England.source

8th century

  • 715Battle of Woden's Burg: Kings Ine of Wessex and Ceolred of Mercia clash at Woden's Burg (Wiltshire).source

9th century

  • 802Battle of Kempsford: Æthelmund, ealdorman of Hwicce, is killed during the battle by his rival Weohstan, who levies West Saxon Wiltshire.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

11th century

  • 1005November 16 – Ælfric of Abingdon, archbishop of Canterbury, leaves ships to the people of Wiltshire and Kent in his will, leaving the best, equipped for 60 men, to King Æthelred the Unready.source
  • 1075August 25 – Council of London: Archbishop Lanfranc instigates the movement of English bishoprics. One of these is the bishopric of Sherborne and Wilton which is moved to Old Sarum.source
  • 1080Osmund, bishop of Salisbury, builds Devizes Castle in Wiltshire.source

12th century

  • 1175Eleanor of Aquitaine is held under house arrest at Old Sarum Castle in Wiltshire. She is kept in comfort there – fine clothes for her are dispatched regularly from London.source

13th century

  • 1231August 13 – King Henry III orders the sheriffs of Hampshire, Dorsetshire and Wiltshire to give Simon de Montfort the possession of the lands of his father, Simon de Montfort the elder.source

16th century

  • 1549Thomas Stephens, linguist and missionary to Portuguese India is born in Wiltshire, England (dies 1619)source

17th century

  • 165511–14 March – Penruddock uprising: a Royalist uprising beginning in Wiltshire is defeated by a skirmish in South Molton.source

18th century

  • 1703October 23 – Hannah Twynnoy, a 24-year-old barmaid in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, becomes the first person to be killed in Great Britain by a tiger. While working at the White Lion Inn, where a group of wild animals is on exhibit, she is mauled after bothering the tiger.source
  • 1708Wilbury House in Wiltshire, designed by William Benson, is completed.source
  • 1741Henry Hoare begins to lay out the landscape gardens at Stourhead, Wiltshire.source
  • 17741 August – Joseph Priestley, working independently at Bowood House, Wiltshire, isolates oxygen in the form of a gas.source

19th century

  • 1889Trowbridge supersedes Wilton as the county town of Wiltshire.source

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