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The History of Hartlepool - History Timeline

Welcome to History of Hartlepool your first port of call for information, history and intersting insights into one of the most fascinating maritime towns in England's hospitable North East.

We have two ways of looking at the History of this unique town, firstly The Hartlepool Story which is played out here in useful sections, secondly a Timeline which provides an extensive chronological list of events.

10,000BC - 4,300BC: Mesolithic
4,300BC - 250BC: Neolithic
500BC: Bronze Age - Roman Period
55BC - 410AD: Roman Period
547AD - 954AD: Anglo-Saxon Times
1066AD - 1240AD: Norman England
1263AD - 1346AD: The High Middle Ages
1415AD - 1473AD The Late Middle Ages
1509AD - 1569AD: The Tudors
1642AD -1644AD: The Civil War
1714AD - 1833AD: Georgian Britain
1837AD - 1901AD: Victorian Britain
1901 - 1936: Early 20th Century
1939 - 1999: 20th Century


In 948AD Eric Bloodaxe - part Norse, part Danish - elected King of York laid claim to the whole of Northumbria