Local Events |
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1588 |
Spanish Armada attempts invasion
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1600 |
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The Plague in Hampton - around 100 deaths
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1603 |
Death of Queen Elizabeth I at Richmond Palace and accession of James I
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The Hampton Court Conference
Shakespeare visits Hampton Court to perform before James I
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1604 |
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The Plague in Twickenham
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1605 |
The Gunpowder Plot discovered on November 5th
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Earliest recorded map of Twickenham drawn by Ralph Tresswell the Younger.
Sir John Suckling, father of the Cavalier poet, living at Whitton
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1607 |
20 January The Great Flood in The Bristol Channel - a Tsunami?
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Construction of York House started by Andrew Pitcairne
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1633 |
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Map of Isleworth Hundred, including Twickenham, drawn by Moses Glover
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1635 |
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Civil War starts: Battle of Brentford
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1642 |
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1648 |
Trial and execution of Charles I
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