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Chronology information for Great Yarmouth and places above it in the hierarchy

Great Yarmouth

Finch-Crisp, William

Chronological retrospect of the history of Yarmouth and neighbourhood from A.D. 46 to 1884: containing about 5,000 important local events.
[Great Yarmouth, 1884]
Finch-Crisp's Chronology is online (this is a link to an archived copy).

McBride, John

A Diary of Great Yarmouth.
3000 chronological facts, with over 4,600 indexed entries by topic.
[ISBN 0952071908, 1998]

Norfolk Record Office: Information Leaflet 20

Key Dates in the History of Great Yarmouth.

England

• John Owen "Jo" Smith's comprehensive Timeline covers the period 55 BC to 2001!
• Fourteenth Century - A Brief Chronology of Chaucer's Life and Times.

UK and Ireland

• Brian Pears has provided a list of the dates of Easter Sunday for the years 1550-2049 with a calendar for each year.
• Mike Spathaky provides a very informative paper: Old and New Style Dates and the Change to the Gregorian Calendar.
• For conversions between the Gregorian and Julian (and other) calendars see the Calendar Converter page.
• Chamber's Book of Days - "a miscellany of popular antiquities in connection with the calendar".
• Bob Sanders has provided Chronologies of British History:-
  • Up to 1500 AD
  • 1500 to 1899 (archived copy)
  • 1900 to date
• The Albion College (Michigan) website has several pages relating to the English Calendar including a useful Regnal Year Calculator.
• An On-line Calendar of Saints Days produced by Glenn Gunhouse.
• TimeSearch - "Search the Web through Time".
• Our Time Lines - enables the placement of ancestors within historical events during their lifetimes.
• Weekday Calculator - What Day is this date?