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Timeline Of York

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of York, North Yorkshire in northern England.

1st-4th centuries

5th-10th centuries

11th–14th centuries

15th–16th centuries

17th century

18th century

19th century

20th century

21st century

Births

  • c. 735 – Alcuin, scholar (died 804 in Tours)
  • Before 1190 – Aaron of York, financier and chief rabbi of England (died after 1253)
  • 1556 – Margaret Clitherow, Catholic saint (martyred 1586)
  • 1564 – 20 March: Thomas Morton, bishop of Durham (died 1659)
  • 1570 – 13 April: Guy Fawkes, Catholic conspirator (executed 1606)
  • 1586 – 5 April: Christopher Levett, sea captain and New England settler (died 1630 at sea)
  • c. 1612 – John Hingston, organist and composer (died 1683)
  • 1624 – Matthew Poole, Nonconformist theologian (died 1679 in Amsterdam)
  • 1647 – Francis Place, gentleman draughtsman (died 1728)
  • 1755 – 6 July: John Flaxman, sculptor (died 1826)
  • 1784 – 31 July: Samuel Tuke, philanthropist and mental health reformer (died 1857)
  • 1787 – 10 March: William Etty, painter of nudes (died 1849)
  • 1799 – May: George Hennet, railway contractor (died 1857)
  • 1800 – 17 June: William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, astronomer (died 1867 in Ireland)
  • 1803 – 26 October: Joseph Hansom, architect and patentee of the Hansom cab (died 1882)
  • 1809 – Mary Ellen Best, domestic watercolourist (died 1891 in Darmstadt)
  • 1813 – 15 March: John Snow, physician, epidemiologist and pioneer of anaesthesia (died 1858 in London)
  • 1836 – 24 May: Joseph Rowntree, chocolate manufacturer and philanthropist (died 1925)
  • 1841 – 4 September: Albert Joseph Moore, figure painter (died 1893)
  • 1851 – 19 June: Silvanus P. Thompson, physicist, pioneer of calculus and electricity (died 1916)
  • 1871 – 7 July: Seebohm Rowntree, chocolate manufacturer and social reformer (died 1954)
  • 1881 – 20 September: Will Ashton (Sir John Ashton), landscape painter and gallery director (died 1963 in Australia)
  • 1907 – 21 February: W. H. Auden, poet (died 1973 in Austria)
  • 1912 – 6 February: Christopher Hill, Marxist historian (died 2003)
  • 1917 – 6 March: Frankie Howerd, comic actor (died 1992)
  • 1933 – 3 November: John Barry, film composer (died 2011 in the United States)
  • 1934 – 9 December: Judi Dench, actress
  • 1942
  • 1943 – 9 May: Vince Cable, politician
  • 1992 – 2 October: Lucy Staniforth, footballer

See also

References

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Further reading

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