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Folklore through the years

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


1625 
 
1626  


1638  


1639  


1640  


1642 


1647  


1650  


1691  


1698 


18th century
 
1700  


1701 


1704 


1717 


1746  


1748 


1749 


1758 


1776 


1778 


1795 


1796 


19th century


1801  


1811  


1813  


1817 


1820 


1824 
 
1830  
  
1835 


1838  


1842 


1848 
 
1851  


1858 


1859 


1862 
 
1864 


1880's 


1884 


1888


1890  


1891 


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1893 


1895 


1896 


20th century


1900  


1903  


1921 


1970's 
 
1990's