This is every mention of a date in a folklore post. Below each date will be a list of events for that date - click on the year itself for details of that date.
(Last updated 4 Jan 2011)
844 BC
~ King Bladud died
799 BC
~ King Lear died
490
~ Saint Keyne comes to the Westrcountry, including a pilgrimage to Saint Michael's Mount
6th century
~ Saint Nectan alive
~ Baptisteries moved into churches
705
~ Cuthberga betrothed to Egfrid
706
~ Saint Decuman dies
713
~ Cuthberga founds Wimborne Nunnery
727
~ Cuthberga died
9th Century
~ Saint Rumon alive
800
~ Saint Neot died
10th Century
~ Saint Rumon alive
979
~ Saint Edward the Martyr, King of England, died in Wareham, and caused a spring to flow
1066
~ Drogo de Teign gets the manor at Drewsteignton
1099
~ Saint Micheal's Mount becomes an Island
1100
~ Coronation of King Rufus
13th century
~ Isabella de Fortibus, Countess of Devon plants Whistmans Wood
1200
~ Birth of Saint Clare
1202
~ 22 French prisoners starve to death in Corfe Castle
1213
~ Peter of Pomfret prophesied that King John would lose his crown in this year
1241
~ Okehampton Church in existance
1252
~ Death of Saint Clare
1294
~ Gulval Parish known as Lanesly Parish
14th Century
~ Tower of Gidliegh castle built
15th Century
~ Church Bells charmed against thunder and lightning.
1464
~ Saint John's Well, Wemdon, in use as a healing well
16th century
~ Sir Francis Drake.
~ Brass of Thomas Williams at Harford Church, Devon
~ Stained Glass Window depicting Saint Neot built
1536
~ Pilgrimages to Saint Anne's Well in Bristol are suppressed
1568
~ John Fitz builds the well cover over the spring that save him and his wife from being Pixie-led near Princetown.
1587
~ Francis Drake destroys 10 thousand tons of spanish ships
17th centuary
1600
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18th century
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19th century
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