Timeline

Significant Events

1058 The reign of Malcolm III of Scotland began.
1066 The reign of William the Conqueror began.
1093 Malcolm III of Scotland was killed in the Battle of Alnwick.
1100 The reign of Henry I of England began.
Matilda of Scotland married Henry I of England at Westminster Abbey.
1118 Matilda of Scotland was buried in Westminster Abbey.
1124 The reign of David I of Scotland began.
1154 The reign of Henry II of England began.
1188 The reign of Alfonso IX of León began.
1199 The reign of John, King of England began.
1215 Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford was a Magna Carta baron.
1216 The reign of Henry III of England began.
1217 The reign of Ferdinand III of Castile began.
1230 William de Braose was hanged for adultery.
The Crown of Castile was formed.
1239
1240		 Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford was the High Sheriff of Kent.
1253 The Statute of Jewry was issued by Henry III of England.
1265 Humphrey de Bohun was captured in the Battle of Evesham. He died while imprisoned in Beeston Castle.
1272 The reign of Edward I of England began. Henry III of England was buried in Westminster Abbey.
1275 The Statute of the Jewry was issued by Edward I of England.
1285 Eleanor of Castile was the High Sheriff of Somerset.
1290 The Edict of Expulsion was issued by Edward I of England. Eleanor of Castile was buried in Westminster Abbey.
1291
1294		 The Eleanor crosses were built.
1298 Edward I of England and Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford served in the Battle of Falkirk.
1307 Edward I of England was buried in Westminster Abbey.
1322 Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford was killed in the Battle of Boroughbridge.
1335 Hugh de Courtenay became the Earl of Devon.
1340 Hugh de Courtenay became the Earl of Devon.
1346
1353		 The Black Death spread across Europe.
1377 Hugh de Courtenay was buried in Exeter Cathedral.
1418 Hugh Courtenay was the High Sheriff of Devon.
1461 William Bonville, 1st Baron Bonville was captured in the Second Battle of St Albans. He was beheaded the next day.
1481 Thomas Grenville was the High Sheriff of Cornwall.
1486 Thomas Grenville was the High Sheriff of Cornwall.
1497 The Cornish Rebellion was suppressed.
The Cornish Uprising was suppressed.
1501 Thomas Grenville became a Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath.
1507 The Waldseemüller map was published.
1511 Roger Grenville was the High Sheriff of Cornwall.
1517 The Protestant Reformation began.
1519
1521		 Spain conquered the Aztec Empire.
1522
1523		 John Mundy was the Lord Mayor of London.
1534 The colony of New France was formed.
1535 New Spain became a viceroyalty.
1542 The Kingdom of Ireland was formed.
1549 The Prayer Book Rebellion was suppressed.
1562 The French Wars of Religion began.
1568 The Dutch War of Independence began.
1581 The Dutch Republic was formed.
1582 The Gregorian calendar was introduced.
1585 The Anglo-Spanish War began.
1598 The Edict of Nantes was issued by Henry IV of France. The Spanish province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México was formed.
1604 The Anglo-Spanish War ended.
1614 The Dutch province of New Netherland was formed.
1623 Richard Denton earned a bachelor's degree from St Catharine's College.
1629 Huguenot rebellions in southern France were suppressed.
1636 Richard Betts settled in the English colony of Massachusetts Bay. The English colony of Connecticut was formed.
1638
1639		 Richard Gildersleeve and Richard Platt became founding settlers of the English colony of New Haven.
1644 Richard Gildersleeve became a schepen in Hempstead, an English settlement in New Netherland.
1648 The Dutch War of Independence ended.
1653 Susannah Norman Lockwood was present at the hanging of a witch in Fairfield.
1657 Richard Gildersleeve sent Robert Hodgson, a Quaker, to prison in New Netherland.
1659 John Drake was thrown from his cart and run over. His injuries were fatal.
1664 The English province of New York was formed.
Daniel Denton purchased the Elizabethtown Tract in the English province of New Jersey.
1665 The New Haven Colony was absorbed by the Connecticut Colony.
1671 Ferdinand III of Castile was canonized by Pope Clement X.
1676 The last monoglot Cornish speaker died in Gwithian.
1678 John Platt became a Deputy in the Connecticut General Assembly.
1681 The English province of Pennsylvania was formed.
1684 Barnabas Wines II bought 112 acres from his sister Sarah Wines Youngs; the deed mentioned Indians. John Woodruff was appointed High Sheriff of Essex (Union) County, New Jersey.
1685 The Edict of Fontainebleau was issued by Louis XIV of France.
1694 Jean Machet was the first person to write a will in New Rochelle.
1695 John Platt retired from the Connecticut General Assembly.
1698 Thomas Betts was living in New York with four Negroes.
1712 The New York Slave Revolt was suppressed.
1741 The New York Conspiracy was suppressed.
1762 Barnabas Wines III died in New York. His will freed two Negroes.
1763 The British province of Quebec was formed.
1768 The Spanish province of the Californias was formed.
1775
1783		 Silas Gildersleeve served in New Jersey. Richard Comfort, Robert Everitt, Joseph Fowler, Joseph Fowler, Barnabas Wines Many, and Joseph McKune served in New York. Seth Whitney suffered maltreatment by Tories in New York.
1787 The Northwest Territory was formed.
Pennsylvania and New Jersey were admitted to the Union.
1788 Connecticut and New York were admitted to the Union.
1799 Gradual abolition began in New York.
1804 The Spanish province of Alta California was formed.
1805 The Territory of Michigan was formed.
1816 Elizabeth Troon was born posthumously. She was baptized in Ludgvan.
1824 Jason Treadwell mistakenly killed Oliver Harper instead of John Collins Comfort.
1836 The Territory of Wisconsin was formed.
1837 Michigan was admitted to the Union.
1839 The first photographic portrait was made.
1846 Honor Polkinghorne Tremelling was convicted in Penzance.
1847 Honor Polkinghorne Tremelling was transferred to Millbank Prison.
1848
1849		 170 female convicts were transported from London aboard the Tory.
170 female convicts arrived in Hobart aboard the Tory.
Honor Polkinghorne Tremelling spent six months aboard the Anson Probation Station in Prince of Wales Bay.
1850 California was admitted to the Union and the Territory of New Mexico was formed.
The Garlick and Mellor family traveled from Liverpool to New Orleans aboard the Charles Chaloner.
1853 Honor Polkinghorne Speckman reached the end of her sentence.
1861
1865		 Robert McKune died in a railway accident in Pennsylvania.
Nelson Rounds Comfort and Charles Edwin McCoy served the Union.
1872 Elizabeth Jane Mellor arrived in the Territory of Colorado.
1874 John McCoy died in a railway accident in Michigan.
1886 The Statue of Liberty was dedicated.
1887 Joseph Garlick died in an explosion in Central City. Henry Garlick was injured.
Nelson Rounds Comfort's barn was robbed.
1890 Ellen Beach McCoy died in Michigan. She was a victim of the flu pandemic.
1892 John Champion naturalized in Georgetown.
1900 William Jolly naturalized in Golden.
1909 Orazio Lombardi traveled from Naples to Boston aboard the Romanic.
1910 Nellie Mary Comfort graduated from high school in Central City.
1914 Orazio Lombardi traveled from Naples to Boston aboard the Cretic.
1919 Nellie Mary Comfort Garlick died in Denver. She was a victim of the flu pandemic.
1920 Richard John Champion traveled from Gothenburg to Ellis Island aboard the Drottningholm.
The Lombardi family traveled from Naples to Ellis Island aboard the Madonna.
1923
1927		 Vivian Lee Sellman's name was changed to Pauline Frances Scholz upon adoption.
Richard John Champion helped dig the Moffat Tunnel in Colorado.
Orazio Lombardi naturalized in Boston.
1928 Richard John Champion traveled from Puerto Plata to Ellis Island aboard the Huron.
The Champion family moved to Ontario.
1936 William John Champion graduated from North High School.
William John Champion completed a CMTC course at Fort Logan.
1937 Nellie Mary Garlick graduated from Arvada High School.
1938 Gerardo Joseph Lombardi graduated from high school in Boston.
1939 William John Champion joined the Colorado Air National Guard.
The European War began.
1940 Pauline Frances Scholz graduated from high school in Roanoke.
1941 Nellie Mary Garlick married William John Champion at the Cathedral of St. John in the Wilderness.
Pearl Harbor was attacked.
1942 Ludovica Cervi Lombardi registered as an enemy alien.
Pauline Frances Scholz joined the USNR.
1943 Gerardo Joseph Lombardi earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame.
1944 Gerardo Joseph Lombardi joined the USNR.
Gerardo Joseph Lombardi completed a naval training course at Princeton University.
1945 The Atomic Age began.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed.
1946 Pauline Frances Scholz was honorably discharged.
Pauline Frances Scholz married Gerardo Joseph Lombardi at St. Andrew's Roman Catholic Church.
1947 Pauline Frances Scholz Lombardi was rebaptized at St. Andrew's Roman Catholic Church.
1948 William John Champion was honorably discharged.
1950 Laura Jolly Champion was mentioned in a Rocky Mountain News article about pasties.
1951 Gerardo Joseph Lombardi earned two master's degrees from Virginia Tech. Pauline Frances Scholz Lombardi earned a bachelor's degree from Virginia Tech.
1952 William John Champion earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Denver.
Ralph Joseph Lombardi was born in the baby boom.
1954 Gerardo Joseph Lombardi was honorably discharged.
1963
1968		 Morse, Dion & Champion were architectural partners in Denver.
1970 Nellie Mary Garlick Champion completed an IBM keypunch course.
Ralph Joseph Lombardi was an Amigo de las Américas.
1971 Ruth Ann Champion graduated from Arvada High School.
1997 Ruth Ann Champion and Andrew Quinn Champion were rescued from the Spring Creek Flood in Fort Collins.
1999 Andrew Quinn Champion and Ralph Joseph Lombardi crossed the Arctic Circle with Warbelow's Air Ventures.
2000 Andrew Quinn Champion won an elementary school spelling bee.
2006 Andrew Quinn Champion graduated from Fort Collins High School.
2010 Andrew Quinn Champion earned an associate degree from Front Range Community College.
2013 There were floods in Colorado, including a foot of water in the Lombardi basement in Boulder.
2014 Ruth Ann Champion retired from Republic National Distributing Company.
2017 Andrew Quinn Champion and Ralph Joseph Lombardi saw a total solar eclipse at Register Cliff.