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Timeline of Somerset history
Key dates in the
history of Somerset
43âÂÂ47 â Roman invasion and occupation
491 â Battle of
Mons Badonicus
(may have been fought in Somerset) (uncertain date)
537 âÂÂ
Battle of Camlann
(sometimes located at
Queen Camel
) (uncertain date)
577 âÂÂ
Battle of Deorham
(Dyrham, Gloucestershire) â Saxons occupied Bath
658 âÂÂ
Battle of Peonnum
(
Penselwood
?) â Saxons then occupied most of Somerset
710 âÂÂ
Battle of Llongborth
(? Langport)
845 â First documentary reference to "Somersæte"
878 âÂÂ
Battle of Cynwit
â Saxon victory over the Danes by
Ealdorman Odda
878 âÂÂ
Battle of Ethandun
â West Saxon victory over the Danes (uncertain whether in Somerset or Wiltshire)
878 âÂÂ
Treaty of Wedmore
â after defeat of
Danes
by King
Alfred the Great
c900 â Kings of
Wessex
hold court at
Cheddar
973 â King
Edgar of England
crowned at
Bath
988 âÂÂ
St Dunstan
buried at
Glastonbury
1013 â Danish king
Sweyn Forkbeard
received submission of western
thegn
s at Bath
1088 â Siege of
Ilchester
1191 â Discovery of "King Arthur's" tomb at Glastonbury
1497 âÂÂ
Perkin Warbeck
's rebellion supported by Somerset men
1643 âÂÂ
Battle of Lansdowne
1645 âÂÂ
Siege of Taunton
during the
English Civil War
1685 âÂÂ
Battle of Sedgemoor
â Duke of Monmouth defeated
1685 âÂÂ
Judge Jeffries
holds the "
Bloody Assizes
" at
Taunton
1770 â Start of major enclosures of
Somerset Levels
1805 âÂÂ
Somerset Coal Canal
Opened
1827 âÂÂ
Bridgwater and Taunton Canal
opened
1875 â Formation of Somerset County
Cricket
Club
1898 â County boundaries altered
1956 âÂÂ
Chew Valley Lake
opened by
Queen Elizabeth II
1974 â Formation of
County of Avon
, reducing the area of the
County of Somerset
1996 â Abolition of the County of Avon, creating the
unitary authorities
of
North Somerset
and
Bath and North East Somerset