Timeline of Somerset history
- Timeline of Somerset history
Key dates in the History of Somerset
*43-47 Roman invasion and occupation
*491 Battle of Mons Badonicus (may have been fought in Somerset) (uncertain date)
*537 Battle of Camlann (sometimes located at Queen Camel) (uncertain date)
*577 Battle of Deorham (Dyrham, Gloucestershire) - Saxons occupied Bath
*658 Battle of Peonnum (Penselwood ?) - Saxons then occupied most of Somerset
*710 Battle of Llongborth (? Langport)
*845 First documentary reference to "Somersæte"
*878 Battle of Cannington - Saxon victory over the Danes by Ealdorman Odda
*878 Treaty of Wedmore - after defeat of Danes by King Alfred the Great
*c900 Kings of Wessex hold court at Cheddar
*973 King Edgar of England crowned at Bath
*988 St Dunstan buried at Glastonbury
*1013 Danish king Sweyn Forkbeard received submission of western thegns at Bath
*1088 Siege of Ilchester
*1191 Discovery of "King Arthur's" tomb at Glastonbury
*1497 Perkin Warbeck's rebellion supported by Somerset men
*1643 Battle of Lansdowne
*1645 Siege of Taunton during the English Civil War
*1685 Battle of Sedgemoor - Duke of Monmouth defeated
*1685 Judge Jeffries holds the "Bloody Assizes" at Taunton
*1770 Start of major enclosures of Somerset Levels
*1805 Somerset Coal Canal Opened
*1875 Formation of Somerset County Cricket Club
*1898 County boundaries altered
*1956 Chew Valley Lake opened by Queen Elizabeth II
*1974 Formation of County of Avon, reducing the area of the County of Somerset
*1996 Abolition of the County of Avon, creating the unitary authorities of North Somerset and Bath and North East Somerset
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