Scene Index
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3500BC
First Settlements at Briar Hill
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2000BC
Bronze Age Round Barrows Found Across County
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400BC
Hillfort Begun at Hunsbury Hill in Northampton
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43AD
The Romans Arrive!
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878AD
Watling Street Established as Danelaw Boundary
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1011AD
Northamptonshire recorded as the county of Ham Tunn
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1086AD
Domesday Book
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1131AD
Henry I Calls Parliament at Northampton Castle
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1164AD
Trial of Thomas A Becket at Northampton Castle
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1290AD
Eleanor of Castile, the Queen Consort of Edward I Dies
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1380AD
Last Parliament to Assemble at Northampton
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1437AD
Elizabeth Woodville, wife of Edward IV born at Grafton Regis
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1460AD
Second Battle of Northampton in the War of the Roses
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1540AD
Birth of Sir Christopher Hatton, Lord Chancellor under Elizabeth I
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1587AD
Execution of Mary Queen of Scots at Fotheringhay Castle
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1605AD
Gunpowder Plot planned at Ashby St Ledgers
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1607AD
Newton Rebellion Protesting Against Enclosures
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1631AD
John Dryden, Poet, Born at Aldwincle
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1645AD
Battle of Naseby
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1647AD
Charles I held prisoner at Holdenby House
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1675AD
Great Fire of Northampton Destroys Three Quarters of the Town
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1678AD
Sessions House and County Hall in George Row Completed
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1765AD
Northampton Mercury Reports Protest Against Enclosures
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1780AD
Death of Ignatius Sancho, Anti-Slavery Campaigner
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1793AD
John Clare, poet, born at Helpston
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1796AD
Grand Junction Canal to Blisworth Opened
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1796AD
Spencer Perceval Elected MP for Northampton
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1803AD
William Knibb, Missionary and Emancipator, born in Kettering
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1808AD
Birth of Caroline Chisholm (nee Jones) Humanitarian
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1854AD
Charge of the Light Brigade led by James Brudenell
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1857AD
Mechanisation comes to the Boot and Shoe Industry
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1880AD
Charles Bradlaugh, Political Activist, Elected MP for Northampton
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1905AD
The Raunds March
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1910AD
Walter Tull Transfers to Northampton Football Club
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1916AD
Scientist Francis Crick Born in Northampton
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1917AD
Bassett Lowke moves into 78 Derngate the 'Mackintosh House'
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1918AD
Death of WW1 Flying Ace Major Edward Mannock
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1923AD
Margaret Bondfield Elected MP for Northampton
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1934AD
Work begins on the largest Steelworks in Britain at Corby
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1943AD
Major Clark Gable flies combat missions from Polebrook
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1948AD
British Grand Prix first held at Silverstone
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1959AD
Opening of the M1 the first 'full length' Motorway
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2003AD
First 'Chip & Pin' trials in Northampton
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2005AD
Northamptonshire in Film
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2009AD
Heaviest Snowfall in 20 Years!
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2010AD
Pride of Northampton
