Timeline of Northumbria and Northumberland - 1000

1000

  • 1018 Lothian is lost to Scottish king Malcolm II.
  • 1065 The term Northumberland is first recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
  • 1069 William I ruthlessly suppresses Northumbrian opposition in the harrowing of the North.
  • 1080 Normans fortify a town on the Tyne, thereafter known as Newcastle.
  • 1089 Northumberland county is created.

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