50000 Oisin Clan moving from the Horn of Africa.
40000 Oisin Clan moving out of Africa into the fertile crescent.
20000 Oisin Clan moving north over the Black Sea
10000 Oisin Clan arrives in western Europe
9500 End of the last Ice Age in Britain
9000 Oisin Clan moved into Britain via Doggerland
6000 The Stone Age
3000 The Bronze Age
1300 The Iron Age
55 Caesar’s short-lived invasion of Britain
BC/AD The birth of Christ.
43-47 Emperor Claudius finally invades Britain
58 Cornovii tribe besieged by the Romans on the Wrekin Hill Fort.
78 Western command of Britain transferred to Chester and Viroconium becomes a thriving civilian town.
88 The town of Viroconium established below the Wrekin.
130 Viroconium grows to the fourth largest town in Britain.
122 The Emperor Hadrian begins the building of the wall.
142 The Emperor Antonine begins the building of his wall.
150 Claudius Ptolemaells mentions of Celtic Cornovii tribe.
160 Antonine wall abandoned and Hadrian’s wall restored.
200 The Cohors Primae Corniovorum stationed at Fort Pons Aelius.
The Roman Empire adopted Christianity.
The Roman Empire retreats from Britain.
The Roman church proclaims the teachings of Pelagius heresy.
The Comes Britanniarum is withdrawn from Britain.
The kingdom of Powys is founded.
A major rebuilding of Viroconium is started.
Vortigern assumes control of central and souther Britain.
Vortigern dies and is succeed by his son Britu ( Vortigern 2nd).
Vortigern 2nd makes an unsuccessful request for Roman military aid.
Vortigern 2nd invites Anglo-Saxon mercenaries into Britain to fight the Picts and Irish.
A Saxon revolt by Hengist and Horsa. Horsa dies at a Battle at Aylesford. Hengist establishes the kingdom of Kent.
The so called ‘Dark Ages’ begin.
Vortigern 2nd deposed and Ambrosius becomes leader of the British forces.
Military stalemate between the Britons and Saxons. The
Angles defeated in the north. Cunorix is buried in Viroconium.
Arthur fights for ambrosius against the Angles.
Arthur succeeds Ambrosius as leader of the British forces
The Anglo-Saxon’s advance westward over Britain.
The Age of King Arthur. The defense of the British.
The Celtic Cornovii consumed into Anglo-Saxon Mercian rule
The Monk Bede is established in Jarrow.
The Cornovii town of Viroconium is abandoned.
Pendred the Moneyer is living in the midlands of Britain.
757-967 Gold coins minted by the moneyer Pendred for King Offa.
785 Offa starts to build a defensive dike to keep out the Welsh.
800 Viking pirates start to raid Britain.
781-900 King Alfred the Great’ rules Anglo Saxon Britain.
900 The first origins of the English village appear.
1035 The death of King Cnut.
1066 The battle of Hastings – The Norman invade Britain.
1086 Work commenced on the Doomsday Book.
1100 King Henry I accedes to the throne of England.
1199 The death of King Richard I. John accedes to the throne.
1248 The Roman bridge ‘Pons Aelius’ (Newcastle) destroyed by fire.
1297 William Wallace defeat the English at Sterling Bridge.
1348 Black Death ultimately kills 33% of the British population.
1415 Henry IV and the English archers win the Battle of Agincourt
1422 The death of Henry V. Henry VI accedes the throne of England.
1457 The start of the ‘Wars of the Roses’.
1468 28 June. John Pendred buried in Bungay, Suffolk.
1488 John Pendred dies in Bungay, Suffolk.
1574 27 July. William Pendred marries Jillian Howard in Bungay.
1475 Gibbs Farm house built in Limpsfield, Surrey. (My home).
1509 The Great Plague afflicts various parts of Tudor England.
1509 The end of the ‘Wars of the Roses’.
1531 King Henry VIII breaks away from the Roman Catholic church.
1536 Queen Anne Boleyn is executed at the Tower of London.
1564 26 April . William Shakespeare is baptised in Stratford.
1575 25 October. Thomas Pendred baptised in Bungay.
1588 The English navy repulse the Spanish Armada.
1642-51 The English Civil War.
1666 The Great fire of London
1695 The PENDRED coin found and put into the Speed collection.
1702 Queen Anne ascends to the thrown of England.
1714 King George I ascend to the thrown of England.
1727 King George II ascends to the thrown of England.
1740 William Pendred marries Elizabeth Freeman in Buckworth.
1746 The battle of Culloden in Scotland.
1760 King George III ascends to the thrown of England
1767 William of Tichmarsh marries Mary Edis in Leighton Bromswold.
1775-83 The American war of Independence
1800 26 May. Thomas Pendred born on Hartest (First Sydenham Pendred)
1801 The first census of Great Britain
1805 Nelson wins the battle of Trafalgar.
1815 Napoleon defeated by Wellington at Waterloo
1820 King George VI ascends to the thrown of England.
1837 Queen Victoria ascends to the thrown of England
1845 George Thomas Pendred is born in Sydenham.
1851 The Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, London.
1862 The start of the American Civil War.
1881 March 1881. Edwin Henry Pendred born in Greenhithe, Kent.
1914 The start of the First World War.
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1914 February. Norman Pendred borne in Sydenham, Kent.
1915 5 July. Captain Edwin Pendred’s ship is torpedoed of the Sillies.
1938 Nov. Norman Pendred marries Nancy Talbot in Sydenham, Kent.
1939-46 The Second World War.
1940 August. Ft. Lt. Stanley Pendred killed in action in Abyssinia.
1940 June. George Pendred evacuated from Dunkirk.
1941 Norman Pendred joins the Burma campaign.
1946 Norman Pendred returns home from India.