England Archive

AncientPages.com - On October 19, 1216,  John, King of England, died of dysentery at Newark Castle in Newark-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire. He was the youngest son of Henrik II

AncientPages.com - A huge Viking winter camp has been unearthed in Lincolnshire, England by archaeologists at the Universities of Sheffield and York. Thousands of Vikings established the site in

AncientPages.com - Recently more than 30 Roman skeletons have been discovered during archaeological excavations at Pontefract town in West Yorkshire, England. Pontefrac is a historical town located on an

AncientPages.com - Clash among scientists! There is currently a heated debate in the scientific community. Archaeologists maintain geneticists have totally misunderstood the Viking occupation in England. Geneticists, on the

AncientPages.com - On the night of 8/9 February 1855, a strange phenomenon – the so-called 'Devil's Footprints'- occurred around the Exe Estuary in East Devon and South Devon, England. The trails of hoof-like marks

AncientPages.com - On November 3, 1492, the Peace of Etaples was signed in Étaples (northern France) between the kings Charles VIII Valois of France and Henry VII Tudor

AncientPages.com - On October 20, 1632, Sir Christopher Wren - one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history - was born. He was a man of

AncientPages.com - On June 24, 1348, the terrible Black Death arrived in Britain. The Black Death started in the Gobi Desert with a minor disease, Yersinia Pestis.  It first entered

AncientPages.com - On June 12, 1381, the first great popular rebellion in English history began and was known as the Peasants' Revolt or Wat Tyler's Rebellion. From the

AncientPages.com - On May 29, 1660, Charles II was restored to the throne. The years of his reign are known in English history as the Restoration period. During this

AncientPages.com - One of the decisive battles of the Wars of the Roses took place on May 4, 1471. It was the Battle of Tewkesbury, a historic riverside town in Gloucestershire. The

AncientPages.com - The great English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare was probably born on April 23, 1564, in Stratford-on-Avon. Very little is known about his life, yet his literary legacy

AncientPages.com - Prehistoric pits, two Neolithic monuments and an Anglo-Saxon cemetery of 150 graves containing spears, knives, jewellery and bone combs have been discovered at an army site where

AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have unearthed remnants of the 12th-century castle keep wall and some remains of William Blackburns’s original prison design. The site lies immediately outside of the Roman