Milton Keynes timeline of historical events by Milton Keynes Heritage Association https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff In memory of Robert Excell. en-us 2023-03-23 16:14:29 UTC 2023-04-01 12:46:25 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/2002065820/646a71cf1e9ce35d3c0a32c95d72f88f/mkha.png 175m BC mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2529135358 Milton Keynes covered by warm tropical sea  containing creatures such as the Ichthyosaur.]]> 2023-03-23 16:22:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2529135358 500000- 10000BC mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2529147542 Most of area covered by ice but with intermittent warmer periods
Flint hand-axes from this period found redeposited in river gravels
Mammoth, horse and vole living around meadow pond in Stoke Goldington 
]]> 2023-03-23 16:31:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2529147542 Palaeolithic Period mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2529148849 2023-03-23 16:32:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2529148849 10000-4000BC mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2529179926 Hunter-gatherers follow livestock along the fertile Ouse and Ouzel river valleys leaving behind a scattering of flint tools ]]> 2023-03-23 16:53:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2529179926 Mesolithic Period mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2529182027 2023-03-23 16:54:37 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2529182027 About 4000BC mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2529184169 Straight-toothed mammoth drowns at Willen (the fossil, kept at the Milton Keynes City Discovery Centre, was discovered in 1970 during construction of Willen Lake) ]]> 2023-03-23 16:56:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2529184169 4000 – 2000BC mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2529217809 Early farmers clear woodland and settle in river valleys – sites at Broughton, Heelands, Stacey Bushes and Secklow (City Centre) ]]> 2023-03-23 17:19:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2529217809 Neolithic Period mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2529219121 Stonehenge built ]]> 2023-03-23 17:20:29 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2529219121 About 2000BC mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2529244348 Human settlement begins around Blue Bridge/Bancroft, the Shenley and Bradwell Brooks (now Loughton Valley Linear Park)
Tribal chieftain buried in substantial earth mound with remains of around 300 cattle in Ouse valley near Gayhurst 
]]> 2023-03-23 17:37:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2529244348 2000 – 700BC mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2529246197 Remains of the dead often buried under barrows
Clusters of barrows constructed close to river at the northern end of Newport Pagnell, and Tyringham
Large circular timber round-house, one of the largest in Britain, built near Blue Bridge, Wolverton
Hoard of gold torcs buried in large pottery vessel 
]]> 2023-03-23 17:38:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2529246197 Bronze Age mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2529246682 2023-03-23 17:39:12 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2529246682 700 – 50BC mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2529250719 At Furzton the settlement had a predominantly cattle based economy with large rectangular ditched enclosures and droveways Hillfort enclosed by ditch constructed in prominent position above Wavendon with views to the west Large area of land used for agriculture with small settlements of timber built roundhouses.]]> 2023-03-23 17:42:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2529250719 Iron Age mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2529251418 2023-03-23 17:42:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2529251418 About 250BC mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2530588098 Grain store caught fire near Calverton Lane, local residents were hungry that winter. ]]> 2023-03-24 15:23:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2530588098 55BC mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2530593418 Julius Caesar first lands in England.]]> 2023-03-24 15:27:29 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2530593418 54BC mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2530594774 Julius Caesar lands in England again but leaves after several months ]]> 2023-03-24 15:28:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2530594774 About 43-50AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2530598391 Watling Street constructed ]]> 2023-03-24 15:31:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2530598391 43AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2530601365 Emperor Claudius invades England ]]> 2023-03-24 15:33:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2530601365 c.60-61AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2530613290 Revolt against the Romans by Queen Boudicca.]]> 2023-03-24 15:43:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2530613290 c.61AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2530615514 After destroying Verulamium (St Alban’s) Queen Boudicca’s forces march along Watling Street, through the Milton Keynes area to her final battle ]]> 2023-03-24 15:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2530615514 c.75AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2530633268 Fort for Legions built at Magiovinium (near present-day Fenny Stratford) ]]> 2023-03-24 15:58:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2530633268 79AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2530635502 Eruption of Versuvius destroys Pompei ]]> 2023-03-24 16:00:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2530635502 c.100AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2530637441 Hadrian orders wall to be constructed at the northern boundary of Roman Britain .]]> 2023-03-24 16:01:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2530637441 c.100AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2530639553 Bancroft Roman Villa built. Villas also built at Gayhurst, Lavendon, Stantonbury and Haversham

Bancroft: A late bronze and iron age settlement, Roman villa and temple mausoleum Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society, 1994]]> 2023-03-24 16:03:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2530639553 c.200AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2530645363 Bancroft Villa destroyed by fire ]]> 2023-03-24 16:08:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2530645363 c.300AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2530659306 New villa built over ruins of old one at Bancroft .]]> 2023-03-24 16:19:42 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2530659306 c.350AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2530661337 Bancroft Roman Villa had an impressive walled garden with a stone built fishpond. (The fishpond and villa outline can be seen at North Loughton Valley Park.)]]> 2023-03-24 16:21:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2530661337 407AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531688300 Romans withdraw troops from Britain ]]> 2023-03-26 09:48:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531688300 c.450AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531689075 Bancroft Roman Villa abandoned ]]> 2023-03-26 09:49:37 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531689075 c.550AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531689414 Anglo-Saxon settlement built at Pennylands

Pennyland and Hartigans: Two Iron Age and Saxon sites in Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society, 1993]]> 2023-03-26 09:50:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531689414 c.575AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531689758 Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at London Road Newport Pagnell with high status burials and grave goods such as ornate glass vessels 





]]> 2023-03-26 09:51:29 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531689758 597AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531689956 St Augustus arrives in England with monks from Rome ]]> 2023-03-26 09:51:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531689956 634AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531690483  Birinus comes from Rome and becomes Bishop of Wessex]]> 2023-03-26 09:53:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531690483 664AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531690894  Council of Whitby favours Roman church over Celtic ]]> 2023-03-26 09:54:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531690894 c.700AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531691337 Area divided into manors, later becoming parishes, using rivers and trackways such as Watling Street as boundaries ]]> 2023-03-26 09:55:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531691337 757AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531691533 Offa becomes King of Mercia.
Vikings on ascendancy against native Saxons 
]]> 2023-03-26 09:56:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531691533 792AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531691997 King Offa annexes East Anglia ]]> 2023-03-26 09:57:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531691997 792AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531692361 Winslow, Little Horwood and part of Whaddon Chase part of King Offas’s endowment of St Alban’s Abbey. ]]> 2023-03-26 09:58:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531692361 796AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531692509 Death of King Offa ]]> 2023-03-26 09:58:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531692509 797AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531692783 Danes invade Britain ]]> 2023-03-26 09:59:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531692783 802AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531709184 Egbert crowned King of Wessex ]]> 2023-03-26 10:38:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531709184 c.810AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531709790 North Bucks on boundary between Danish Mercia and English Saxon Wessex ]]> 2023-03-26 10:39:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531709790 825AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531712516 Egbert wins decisive battle against Mercia at Ellandun ]]> 2023-03-26 10:46:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531712516 830AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531713175 North Bucks regained by Wessex ]]> 2023-03-26 10:47:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531713175 878-879AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531713848 Peace of Wedmore division of Britain between Vikings to North West under ‘Danelaw’ and Guthrum and Wessex under Alfred ]]> 2023-03-26 10:49:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531713848 840AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531714713 Birth of Alfred the Great ]]> 2023-03-26 10:51:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531714713 865AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531715172 Danish army lands in East Anglia ]]> 2023-03-26 10:52:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531715172 866AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531715503 Danes capture York ]]> 2023-03-26 10:53:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531715503 869AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531715854 East Anglia conquered by Danes ]]> 2023-03-26 10:54:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531715854 871AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531716472 Alfred the Great becomes King of Wessex ]]> 2023-03-26 10:55:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531716472 878-879AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531717220 Boundary passes along Watling Street north of Old Stratford and River Ouse towards Bedford. (Milton Keynes is just inside Wessex but Old Stratford and Olney under Danelaw) ]]> 2023-03-26 10:57:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531717220 Events in Milton Keynes mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531718031 Shown with a white background.]]> 2023-03-26 10:59:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531718031 National and international events mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531718104 Shown with a pale yellow background.]]> 2023-03-26 10:59:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531718104 880AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531719431 Burghal Hidage lists 30 defended towns in southern England  including Oxford and Buckingham ]]> 2023-03-26 11:02:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531719431 901AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531722083 Alfred dies succeeded by his son Edward ]]> 2023-03-26 11:08:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531722083 905AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531722543 Wars with Danes begin again ]]> 2023-03-26 11:09:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531722543 914AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531724647 Edward fortifies Buckingham
Secklow Mound (behind Library in CMK) a meeting place for the hundred – a military and taxation area 
]]> 2023-03-26 11:14:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531724647 915AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531725153 Danes in Bedford accept Edward as King ]]> 2023-03-26 11:16:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531725153 918AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531725364 Edward takes control of Mercia ]]> 2023-03-26 11:16:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531725364 921AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531725786 Essex, East Anglia and Danish Mercia acknowledge Edward as King ]]> 2023-03-26 11:17:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531725786 921AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531726279 Edward camps at Passenham and orders rebuilding of Towcester the town being attacked by Danes ]]> 2023-03-26 11:18:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531726279 c.950AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531726540 Market established at Newport Pagnell ]]> 2023-03-26 11:19:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531726540 c.1000AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531726763 Renewed Danish attacks ]]> 2023-03-26 11:19:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531726763 c.1000AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531727396 Tower of church of St Michael built at Lavendon ]]> 2023-03-26 11:20:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531727396 1002AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531727710 English massacre of Danes on the mass day of St Brice ]]> 2023-03-26 11:21:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531727710 1002AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531728260 Danish settlements at Castlethorpe, Newport Pagnell, Haversham, Simpson, Lathbury, Olney, Woolstone and Ravenstone attacked ]]> 2023-03-26 11:22:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531728260 1010AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531728540 Danes respond with attacks ]]> 2023-03-26 11:23:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531728540 1010AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531729181 Danish attacks recorded at Newport Pagnell and Buckingham ]]> 2023-03-26 11:24:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531729181 1013AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531729515 Danish King Sewyn lays waste to area on march to Oxford ]]> 2023-03-26 11:25:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531729515 1016AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531729797 Start of Canute’s reign of Wessex ]]> 2023-03-26 11:26:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531729797 1035AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531730207 Date of the most recent coin from 5000 coin hoard found at Lenborough, near Buckingham, in 2014. 12 of the coins were minted at Buckingham. ]]> 2023-03-26 11:27:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531730207 1040AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531730450 Death of Harold – Hardicanute becomes King ]]> 2023-03-26 11:27:59 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531730450 1042AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531730931 Death of Hardicanute – Edward-the-Confessor becomes King]]> 2023-03-26 11:28:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531730931 1066AD mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531737389 Death of Edward – Harold becomes King.]]> 2023-03-26 11:42:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531737389 1066 mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531737803 Walter Giffard, Lord of Longueville brings 30 ships from Normandy and is given much of what is now Milton Keynes ]]> 2023-03-26 11:43:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531737803 1066 mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531737890 Norman invasion - William I becomes King ]]> 2023-03-26 11:43:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2531737890 1075 mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2532062597 Bletchley and Simpson held by Bishop of Coutances ]]> 2023-03-26 21:33:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2532062597 1086 mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2532062815 Domesday Survey records ownership and value of land throughout England ]]> 2023-03-26 21:33:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2532062815 1086 mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2532063356 Village of Milton Keynes (then Middleton) recorded in the Domesday Book as belonging to the King. Others included are Broughton 'Bertone', Calverton 'Calvretone', Great Linford 'Linforde', Loughton 'Lochintone', Newport Pagnell 'Neuport', Newton Longville 'Nevtone', Shenley 'Senelai', Simpson 'Siwinestone', Woughton 'Ulchetone', Walton 'Waletone', Wolverton 'Wluerintone' and Woolstone 'Wlsiestone'. 53 households recorded at Water Eaton. ]]> 2023-03-26 21:34:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2532063356 1087 mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2532063570 William II becomes King ]]> 2023-03-26 21:35:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2532063570 c.1092 mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2532064051 Water Eaton and Bletchley given to Walter Giffard, 1st Earl of Buckingham.]]> 2023-03-26 21:36:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2532064051 1096 mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2532064411 First Crusade – War between Turkish Empire and Christians over Jerusalem ]]> 2023-03-26 21:36:59 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2532064411 1097 mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2532064632 Norman invasion of Wales – construction of castles in Wales begins ]]> 2023-03-26 21:37:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2532064632 1100 mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2532065160 Coronation of King Henry I who marries Matilda a descendant of Ethelred the Unready uniting Saxon and Norman dynasties.]]> 2023-03-26 21:38:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2532065160 1100 mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2532065784 Grafton Regis granted to the Abbey of Grestain in Normandy ]]> 2023-03-26 21:39:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2532065784 1102 mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2532065943 Foundation of Newton Longville Priory ]]> 2023-03-26 21:40:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2532065943 Scroll left or right to go backwards or forwards in time mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2532081112 2023-03-26 22:14:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2532081112 1108 mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2535346096 Establishment of local courts ]]> 2023-03-28 16:46:29 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2535346096 1134 mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2535347711 Rebellion in Wales]]> 2023-03-28 16:47:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2535347711 1135 mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2535348944 Coronation of King Stephen ]]> 2023-03-28 16:48:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2535348944 1140 mkheritage https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2535350308 Bradwell Abbey, a Benedictine priory founded.]]> 2023-03-28 16:49:29 UTC https://padlet.com/mkheritage/5tdsmfrbm7ipg5ff/wish/2535350308