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UK History 1042 - 1859
UK History 1042 – 1859
1042-1066 – Coronation of King Edward the Confessor in 1042.
Before assuming the throne Edward spent 24 years in exile in Normandy. Edwards
death was on 5 January 1066. Harold was then crowned King at Westminster Abbey.
(History’s greatest hits. Joseph Cummins ©2007)
14 October 1066 – The Anglo Saxons had controlled England
since the 5th century. After migrating there from Scandinavia or
Germany. They were faced with a mass invasion of their lands by the Normans
from northern France who intended to stay. The Normans had emerged as a
regional power. (History’s greatest hits. Joseph Cummins ©2007)
1133-1215 – The Plantagenets were a noble family and rulers
of England since 1133. John was born on Christmas eve 1166. The youngest of eight
children of Eleanor of Aquitaine and King Henry II of England. Richard died
1199 and John was crowned king. (History’s greatest hits. Joseph Cummins ©2007)
1205 – Roger Priur. Curia Regis rolls of Suffolk during the
reign of King John.
January 1215 – Nobles, Barons gathered at a secret meeting
at Dunmow castle in Essex, the home of Lord Robert Fitzwalter Earls and
Bishops. Ruler of the realm was King John. Heavy taxes and the magna carta.
(History’s greatest hits. Joseph Cummins ©2007).
1337 – In Cornwall where our Pryor ancestors lived the Pryor
name is mentioned in Cornwall as far back as 1337 when a Nicholas Prior is
mentioned. Dutchy of Cornwall.
13th century – Before the Middle Ages people had only one
name. It was only in the 13th century that surnames began to be used
in England. We call unmarried women spinsters because they earned their living
by spinning wool. A major source of British wealth in the Middle Ages. (How to
trace your family tree. Anness pub ltd ©2005).
1500-1700 – How to read local archives. FG Emmison. London
Historical association 1967.
1538 – Henry VIII decreed that each of 11,000 UK parishes
should keep registers of baptisms, marriages and burials of its inhabitants
from 1538 onwards. Few survive before 1558 when they started being kept on
sheepskin instead of paper and even fewer survive before the 1600’s. From 1598
annual copies were made and sent to local bishops. (Tracing your family
history. Anthony Adolph ©2007).
1600-1900 – Three hundred years of embroidery. Pauline
Johnson. Wakefield press 1986. ISBN 0-9492-6881-x
1700 – Smuggling a history 1700-1970 David Phillipson
Rosemary Pugh 1973.
1700-1840 – Smuggling in Kent and Sussex. Mary Waugh ©1985.
1700-1850 – Smuggling in Hampshire and Dorset. Geoffrey
Morley ©1983.
1718-1761 – Our first known ancestor is Anthony Pryor, born
about 1718 in the reign of George i. He married Avis Thomas in Wendron Cornwall
on 19 October 1743. The village has one of the longest histories of tin mining
of any district in Cornwall back to the 16th century. He and Avis
had at least nine children all born in Wendron. Finally Anthony was born in
1761, 17 years after his parents married.
1750’s – Smuggling in Devon and Cornwall. The Sicilly isles
became dependent on smuggling for its economy. Smuggling was a Cornish activity
and in Cornwall tin ore was mined. A famous family that operated out of Prussia
cove near praa Sands in Cornwall was the Carter family. John Carter was head of
the family. Another family mentioned was a devout Methodist preacher despite
his interests in contraband material. The Carters of Prussia cove. (p32-33
Family history monthly June 2008 UK.)
7 February 1758 – Margery Waters married Richard Pryor in
Crowan Con England.
19 October 1743 – Avis Thomas married Anthony Pryor in
Wendron Con England.
1749 – Smuggling and smugglers in Sussex. The genuine
history of the Gentlemen and Chichester.
1761-1787 – Anthony Pryor was baptised in Wendron 13
December 1761 in the second year of the reign of George III. When Anthony was
19 he married Margery (who also had the maiden name of Pryor), Wendron 29
January 1787.
1764 – Lloyds register of shipping London.
1787-1808 – On 11 November 1787 a son was born also called
Anthony other children followed. On boxing day 1808 he married Margaret Cowls
at Helston about 3 miles south of Wendron.
1 March 1801 – Mary Norris born in Richmond Sry Eng.
9 April 1804 – Frederick Sturmer born in Poplar NDX Eng.
26 December 1808 – Margaret Cowls married Anthony Pryor in
Helston Con Eng.
1812 – Anthony Mangan boirn in CLA IRL.
1812 –1839 – One other child was born to Anthony and
Margaret Cowls, William baptised at Helston 5 September 1812. In April 1838 at
Kenwyn William married 24 year old Elizabeth Davey in Helston a gardener.
William and Elizabeth had a son James John on 20 January 1839 in Helston.
5 September 1812 – William Pryor born Helston Cornwall Eng.,
1815 – English British naval history to 1815 a guide to
literature. Eugene L Raser. Smuggling 1892 Neville Williams. Contraband cargoes
1959. History profession 1713-1775.
1815 – Emigration from Europe 1815-1930 D Baines London
Macmillan 1991.
1815 – Emigration from Europe 1815-1914 C Erickson London
Adam and Charles Black 1976.
1820 – From the mid 18th Century Cornwall was an
industrial powerhouse, the richest tin and copper mining region in the world.
The rise and fall of the industries has shaped almost every corner of Cornish
life. By the bronze age 2100BC to 750BC Western Europe depended on Cornwall for
supplies of tin to make bronze. The metals then produced by tin streaming and
from open cast mines. p40 By the 1820s there were more than 2,000 mines in
operation making Cornwall the worlds leading mineral producer. The world copper
crash in 1866 left the industry reeling and a decline of mining followed. Many
Cornish left for mines in the US, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
Reviving production of tin in 2010 with a rise in world metal process. Cornish
ethnicity. (Cornwall Lesley Gillilan p37).
1823 – David Nicol born FIF Scotland.
11 March 1828 – Charles Watson born Lin Eng.
3 July 1828 – Frederick Sturmer married Mary Norris UK.
8 April 1829 – Frederick John Sturmer born Oxford OXF Eng.
1830-39 – First opium war between the UK and China began.
1831 – A cholera epidemic broke out in London UL (Timeline
internet).
1833 – Deeds. Record land holding and transfer. A common
form of deed dating from the 1100’s to 1833 are feet of fines. Final agreements
land was transferred from one party to another. Written in triplicate on a
sheet of sheep or goatskin divided three ways. Surviving copies are kept in the
National Archives indexed in series 1/7233-44 and 1/7217-68. Many have been
published by county record societies, local archives and libraries.
16 October 1834 – In London the houses of parliament caught
fire and many historic documents were burned. (Timeline internet).
1836 – Nathan Rothschild son of Mayer Amschel Rothschild
dies in London. His younger brother James took over the business. (Timeline
internet).
28 April 1838 – William Pryor married Elizabeth Davey in
Kenwyn Con Eng.
28 June 1838 – Queen Victoria was crowned in Westminster
abbey. (AP 6/28/98 timeline internet).
20 January 1839 – James John Pryor was born at Helston
Cornwall Eng.
5 Februaryu1839 – Elizabeth Davey died Helston Cornwall Eng.
1841 – Anthony at Wendrow place Helston a fruiterer. In the
1841 census of Cornwall his wife Margaret had four children still living at
home.
1 September 1845 – Catherine Jane Wasley born Gloucester GL
Eng.
1847 – Britain passed the vagrancy act to combat begging, as
the potato famine swept Ireland. (AP 11/25/08 timeline internet).
1848 – Elizabeth Strain was born Ireland.
1849 – Water borne cholera killed about 14,000 people in
London. (timeline internet).
21 November 1849 – Isabella Smith Nicol was born Edinburgh
MLN Scotland.
4 November 1851 – Edward William born Maldon Ess Eng.
1856 – The rise and progress of British opium smuggling the
illegality. R Alexander.
1859 – The genealogy of the existing British peerage and
baronage. Edmond Lodge.
1859 – Sarah Ann Chambers born New Basford Eng.
UK 1 November 2006
UK 1 November 2006
1 November 2006 – Alex Goldfarb, a friend of Litvinenko’s
who ran the International Foundation for Civil Liberties, a human rights group,
funded by Boris Berezovsky, the Russian émigré who lives in London, and a
critic of Putin. Berezovsky is the man, Litvinenko claims, he was ordered to
assassinate by the FSB, the KGB successor. Goldfarb accused the Kremlin of
ordering his friends death and implicated Andrei Logovoi. (26 November 2006
Sunday Observer Guardian UK).
1 November 2006 – Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitri Kovtun. Lugovoi
another ex-KGB officer, and Kovtun another Russian, met Litvinenko at the
Millennium hotel in Grosner square, just after his encounter with Scaramella.
Lugovoi, now a security operator in Moscow, claims Litvinenko drank nothing at
their meeting. (26 November 2006 Sunday Observer Guardian UK).
1 November 2006 – Mario Scaramella, an Italian academic and
security expert, who is part of an Italian parliamentary inquiry into KGB
activity says, he met Litvinenko for lunch lasting 35 minutes, in the Itsun
sushi bar on London’s Piccadilly on 1 November 2006. The same day Litvinenko
became ill. Claims they met “because” both their names were on a hit list which
he received an email about. Scotland Yard are investigating him. (26 November
2006 Sunday Observer Guardian UK).
1 November 2006 – A meeting on 1 November between Litvinenko
and two Russians at the Millennium hotel Mayfair. One of the men Andrei
Lugovoy, a former KGB bodyguard, had travelled to … business associate Dimitri
Kovtun, said they offered Litvinenko alcohol. Detectives of Scotland Yard
anti-terrorist branch are trying to piece together the movements of Litvinenko
on 1 November, when he met Mario Scaramella at a branch of the Itsu restaurant
chain, the first of several meetings held by the former Russian agent that day.
(Independent UK Cahal Milmo 30 November 2006).
1 November 2006 – Around mid afternoon on the day Litvinenko
was fatally poisoned ,he met Russian businessmen Dmitry Kovtun and Andrei
Logovei who says Litvinenko did not drink anything while they were with him.
Later Kovtun li the drizzle to Muswell hill. His trip caught the grainy CCTV
which was being studied by Scotland Yard. Litvinenko called Kovtun the
following day to cancel their meeting. The victim of one of the most elaborate
assassinations in political history. His death has bewildered Scotland Yard’s
most experienced Detectives. (Sunday Observer Guardian 26 November 2006 UK).
1 November 2006 – A perpetrator may have entered Britain
shortly before 1 November 2006, the date Litvinenko is thought to have been
poisoned, and they may have fled London after administering the deadly dose.
Litvinenko was as good as dead as seen as the first alpha rays entered his
body. Litvinenko’s dissident friends blame the Kremlin. The Kremlin blames
Litvinenkos dissident friends. Russian agents have been named central suspect
has emerged. Vladimir Kuznetsov, former chief of Russias state atomic central
agency. He described Litvinenkos death by plutonium 210 as “journalistic
invention”. (Sunday Observer Guardian UK 26 November 2006).
1 November 2006 – Poisoning of the former KGB agent who is
seriously ill in a London hospital. SVR. Mr Litvinenko claims he met a former
KGB agent Andrei Lugovoi at the hotel along with another Russian. Mr Lugovoi
said yesterday he would not comment. Mr Litvinenko claimed to have obtained
documents about Anna Politkovsky’s death, on the day Litvinenko was poisoned.
Mr Litvinenko said Dr Scaramella, passed him material that suggested secret
service operatives were connected with the death of Politkovsky. Dr Scaramella
also showed him a hit list which named him Litvinenko. (Jeevan Vasagar. Tom
Parfitt in Moscow. The Guardian UK 23 Novembver 2006 ).
1 November 2006 – Goldfarb said all options should be
explored including whether the poison might have been sprinkled into
Litvinenko’s drink during a meeting at a central London hotel on 1 November
before he went to the sushi restaurant. Litvinenko briefly met two men from
Moscow, one of them was a former KGB officer he knew for tea at the hotel
Goldfarb said. Litvinenko said he had not previously met the second man.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied involvement. (Pravda Ru article 27
November 2006 front page 20 November 2006).
1 November 2006 – Scaramella told Italian reporters that
when he met with Litvinenko on 1 November he showed him emails from a mutual
intelligence acquaintance containing a list of individuals whose lives were
said to be in danger from criminals based in St Petersburg. The emails
reportedly claim that the same criminals killed Anna Politkovskaya. Litvinenko
was investigating her fatal shooting in Moscow in October when he was poisoned.
(New York Times Alan Cowell 28 November 2006 Peter Kiefer in Rome).
1 November 2006 – Mr Litvinenko a former Russian secret
service agent accused the Russian authorities of poisoning him, with what
police said was an ingestion of radioactive isotope polonium 210. Litvinenko
claimed to have refused an order to assassinate Berezovsky in the late 1990’s.
I credit him with saving my life. Police tracked Litvinenko on 1 November to a
sushi bar, a five star hotel in central London and his home in north London.
They also found traces of radiation in the offices of a security company in
Mayfair called Erinys, Litvinenko visited its offices. (New York Times 28
November 2006 Alan Lowell and Peter Kiefer in Rome).
1 November 2006 – Yuri Shvets, a former Russian security
official old BBC that Litvnenko believed he was poisoned when he met three Russian
businessmen, Andrei Lugovoy, Dmitri Kovtun and Vyacheslav Sokolenko, at a
central London hotel on 1 November 2006. He said he drank a tea which was not
made in front of him. (Indias national newspaper online 18 December 2006 Hasan
Suroor).
1 November 2006 – Radiation was found in offices of Russian
billionaire Boris Berezovsky. An exiled Russian billionaire and opponent of the
Kremlin. Confirmed today that police found traces in his offices following the
death last week of Litvinenko. The discovery of radioactive traces at Mr
Berezovsky Mayfair offices highlighted one more clue about Litvinenko’s
movements on the day he first reported feeling unwell November 1 2006. Mr
Beresovsky visited Litvinenko in his hospital bed before he died, apart from
the traces at his offices, where Litvinenko was a frequent visitor. He has not
been implicated in the police inquiry. (New York Times 28 November 206 Alan
Lowell and Peter Kiefer in Rome).
1 November 2006 – Litvinenko told Scaramella, on the day he
fell ill, that he had organised the smuggling of nuclear material out of Russia
for his security service employers. Scaramella met Litvinenko on 1 November to
discuss a death threat aimed at both of them. In an interview with the
Independent soon after the poisoning became public, Scaramella said that
Litvinenko was a friend since 2001, told him he had masterminded the smuggling
of radioactive material to Zurich in 2000. The operation would have been one of
the last carried out by Litvinenko while still an FSB officer, in a unit
tackling organised crime and smuggling. (Independent UK Cahal Milmo Peter
Popham and Jason Bennetto 29 November 2006 ).
1 November 2006 – Scaramella, an academic and examining
magistrate based in Rome and Naples, had been due to meet Litvinenko on 10
November in London, but brought the meeting forward at short notice on 1
November. The Itsu restaurant in Piccadilly, where traces of polonum-210 were
found, is thought to be the first location visited by Litvinenko on 1 November.
Later he met the two Russian businessmen at a Mayfair hotel and visited the
nearby offices of Berezovsky and a security firm where polonium traces were
also found. Police said they were searching the five star Sheraton park lane
hotel in Mayfair and an office building in west end. (Independent UK Cahal
Milmo. Peter Popham. Jason Bennetto. 29 November 2006).
1 November 2006 - Scaramella says he has long been involved
in investigating the smuggling of radioactive material by the KGB ad its
successors. He said in 2005 that Soviet destroyers had laid 20 nuclear torpedos
in the Bay of Naples in 1970, where they remain. Berezovsky was visited almost
daily by Litvinenko. (Independent UK Cahal Milmo. Peter Popham. Jason Bennetto.
29 November 2006)
1 November 2006 – Litvinenko meets at a London hotel with
another former KGB spy Andei Lugovoy and two other men he had never met before.
Later goes to a sushi bar to meet Italian academic Mario Scaramella who showed
him an email, identifying émigrés to Britain being targeted by Russian agents
and the identities of those who gunned down Anna Politkovskaya in Moscow in
October. Later feels unwell and is taken to a London hospital. 20 November
police said their counter terrorism unit is investigating. Traces of radiation
were found at a number of sites including Litvineko’s north London home, the
sushi bar and the hotel he visited earlier that day. (AP London Int Herald
Tribune 29 November 2006).
1 November 2006 – Death of an ex-agent … Neil Buckley.
Arkady Ostrovsky. Stephen Fedler. Forces connected to Ramzan Kadyrov the
Chechen PM were seen as possible suspects in Anna Politkovskaya’s murder. Igor
Shuvalov a senior aide to Putin told the FT this week, the two recent deaths
were links in the same chain. Evgenia Albats a Russian journalist and author of
a book about the KGB said the FSB could have carried out Litvinenkos murder
which bore its handwriting is run totally by the KGB they call themselves.
1 November 2006 – British spy poison case detector to fly to
Moscow and Rome this week. The Sunday Telegraph reported. Security service in
Britain suspect that Russian agents or a rogue unit were behind the
sophisticated nuclear weapons elements used for the murder. Scotland Yard’s
counter terrorism unit to question two Russians and an Italian professor who
lunched with Litvinenko at the same Japanese restaurant in central London.
Scotland Yard’s officers flying to Moscow to interview Lugovoy and Kovrun.
Detectives also travel to Rome to see Scaramella. (27 November 2006 Russia).
1 November 2006 – The last person to meet Alexander
Litvinenko before he succumbed to the effects of radioactive poisoning was an
expert in nuclear materials. Online site this is London says Mario Scaramella
headed an organisation which traded dumped nuclear waste including old Soviet
nuclear missiles. Litvinenko allegedly fell ill after the Sushi lunch and died
22 days later from poisoning by polonium. (27 November 2006 ).
1 November 2006 – Litvinenko meets at a London hotel with
another former KGB spy Andrei Lugovoy and two other men he had never met
before. Later goes to a sushi bar to meet Italian academic Mario Scaramella who
shows him an email allegedly identifying émigrés to Britain being targeted by
Russian agents and the identities of those who gunned down Russian journalist
Anna Politkovskaya in Moscow in October. Later feels unwell taken to a London
hospital.
1 November 2006 – Litvinenko told Scaramella on the day he
fell ill that he had organised the smuggling of nuclear material out of Russia
for his security service employers. Scaramella met Litvinenko on 1 November to
discuss a death threat aimed at both of them. In an interview with the
Independent soon after the poisoning became public Scaramella said that
Litvinenko was a friend since 2001, told him he had masterminded the smuggling
of radioactive material to Zurich in 2000. The operation could have been one of
the last carried out by Litvinenko while still an FSB officer in a unit
tackling organised crime and smuggling. (Independent Cahao Milmo. Peter Popham.
Jason Bennetto).
Friday, December 14, 2012
BELGIUM
BELGIUM
20 Jan 1831 – Protocols were signed in London UK recognising
Belgium’s independence. The Rothschilds banking empire financed the founding of
Belgium. (timeline internet).
1843 – Belgium police were the first to take photos of
people as criminal mug shots. (timeline internet).
8 Sept 1969 – Grenade attack on El Al office Brussels. Two
boys recruited by al-Fatah. The Iraqi embassy helped one escape.
8 may 1972 – Sabena airliner was hijacked from Brussels and
forced to land in Tel Aviv. Israelis forced release of the plane and
passengers. Two hijackers were killed and two are serving life in prison.
16 April 1979 – Brussels machine gun grenade attack wounded
17 people.
April 1985 – Brussels NATO office bomb.
2004 – IARA could be linked to the Belgiun office of the
al-Aqsa foundation. A charity which is a vital source of funds for Palestinian
terrorist group Hamas. IARA was a conduit for funds raised for Hamas. The Holy
Land foundation raised money for Hamas in the US providing funds for 12 organisations
including the Islamic relief agency.
29 Oct 2012 – Exxon Mobil executive shot dead assassination
style in Brussels. British oil and gas corp Nicholas Mockford aged 60. (The
Telegraph UK Intelnews.org Ian Allan).
3 December 2012 – Belgium will become an Islamic state. Two
Muslims won elections on 14 October 2012 An Islamic party, sworn into office on
3 December 2012. (Prophecy news watch Brussels 3 Dec 2012).
21 December 2012 – President Putin’s visit to Belgium.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
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