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• A chronycle with a genealogie declaryng that the Brittons and Welshemen are linealiye dyscended from Brute. Newly and very wittely compyled in meter ([Imprinted at Londo[n] : In the parishe of Christes Church within newgate by Richard Grafton, prynter to our soueraigne lorde Kyng Edward the VI., 1547]), by Arthur Kelton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A brief cronology of Great Britain from the first discoveries of this isle, through the severall comquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes, and Normans. (London : Printed by T.C. and are to be sold by T. Crosse, [1656]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The catalogue of the chancellors of England, the lord keepers of the Great Seale: and the lord treasurers of England. With a collection of divers that have been masters of the Rolles. By I.P. Summerset herald. (Printed at London : By Tho. Cotes, and are to be sold by Andrew Crooke in Pauls Church-yard, 1636), by John Philipot (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The English chronology being a brief chronological account of the most considerable publick occurrences that have happen'd in these kingdoms, and other adjacent parts, since King William the Third's accession to the crown. From 1688, to 1696. (Oxford : printed by L. Lichfield, for John Howell bookseller, 1696), by Benjamine Smithurst (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A short cronycle wherin is mencioned all the names of all the kings of England of the mayers, [and] sheriffes of the cytie of Londo[n] of diuers and many notable actes and thi[n]ges done in [the] sith the time of kige henry [the] fourth. ([Imprynted at London : In fletestrete, at the signe of the Sonne, by Iohn Byddell, [1540]]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The purchasers pattern In two parts, containing. I. The true value of any purchase of land or houses by lease or otherwise: also, a moderate discourse of usury. With many observations, and tables of intrest and rebatement. II. The true measuring of land, board, timber, and gauging of cask: and discovering the false rules and deceits which are used by many therein. With many other rules and tables of daily use for most men. The second edition corrected and enlarged. By Hen. Philippes. (London : Printed by R. & W. Leybourn, for T. Pierrepont, at the Sun in Pauls Church-yard, 1654), by Henry Phillippes (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Memorable dayes and workes of God, in the yeare past. 1645. Or A catalogue of the cities, castles, townes, and forts, that have beene taken by the Parliaments forces since Ianuary last. (London, : Printed for J. Bartlett., 1646), by Joseph Caryl (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• Handy-Book of Rules and Tables for Verifying Dates with the Christian Era (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1875), by John J. Bond (multiple formats at archive.org)
• British history, chronologically arranged; comprehending a classified analysis of events and occurrences in church and state; and of the constitutional, political, commercial, intellectual, and social progress of the United Kingdom, from the first invasion by the Romans to the accession of Queen Victoria (E. Wilson, 1839), by John Wade (page images at HathiTrust)
• A parallel history of France and England; consisting of outlines and dates (Macmillan and co., 1871), by Charlotte M. Yonge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Almanacks for students of English history, being a set of 35 almanacks arranged for every day upon which Easter can fall (Phillimore & Co., 1915), by Edw. Alex. Fry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Origines juridiciales, or Historical memorials of the English laws, courts of justice, forms of tryal, punishment in cases criminal, law-writers, law-books, grants and settlements of estates, degree of serjeant, Innes of court and chancery. (Printed by Tho. Newcomb, for Abel Roper, John Martin, and Henry Herringman, 1671), by William Dugdale (page images at HathiTrust)
• The chronological historian, or, A record of public events : historical, political, biographical, literary, domestic and miscellaneous; principally illustrative of the ecclesiastical, civil, naval and military history of Great Britain and its dependencies, from the invasion of Julius Cæsar to the present time (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826), by William Toone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Edward's Cork remembrancer; or, Tablet of memory. Enumerating every remarkable circumstance that has happenned in the city and county of Cork and in the kingdom at large. Including all the memorable events in Great Britain ... Also the remarkable earthquakes, famines ... fires, and all other accidents of moment in every quarter of the globe, from the earliest period, to the 1792. (A. Edwards, 1792), by Anthony Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• English regnal years and titles; hand-lists, Easter dates, etc. (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge;, 1921), by John Eyre Winstanley Wallis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Poetical chronology of inventions, discoveries, battles, and of eminent men, from the conquestion to the present time : exhibiting their effects on the history of Great Britain, elucidated by a catechism in prose subjoined to each page. (Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1846), by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The annals of our time : a diurnal of events, social and political, which have happened in, or had relation to, the kingdom of Great Britain, from the accession of Queen Victoria to the opening of the present parliament (Macmillan and Co., 1869), by Joseph Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
• The court-register, and statesman's remembrancer: containing a series of all the great officers, prime ministers of state, &c. ... from the restauration of King Charles II. to this present year. Together with the commissioners for managing the several branches of the Crown revenues ... and also some account of the institution, nature and business of the several offices ... (Printed for R. Gosling ... and T. Worrall ..., 1733), by Wililam Sliford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of England in chronological form (The World, 1887), by Frederick Thomas Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• British history chronologically arranged, comprehending a classified analysis of events and occurrences in church and state ... from the first invasion of the Romans to the accession of Queen Victoria ... (Bohn, 1843), by John Wade (page images at HathiTrust)
• Complete chronological index to the Pictorial history of England : from the earliest times down to 1815, based on that prepared by H.C. Hamilton. (W. & R. Chambers, 1860), by George L. Craik (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical memorials of the English laws (Printed for Christop. Wilkinson, Tho. Dring, and Charles Harper, 1680), by William Dugdale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handy-book of rules and tables for verifying dates with the Christian era ; giving an account of the chief eras, and systems used by various nations, with easy methods for determining the corresponding dates (Bell and Daldy, 1869), by John James Bond (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new chronological abridgment of the history of England; from the earliest times to the accession of the House of Hanover. Written upon the plan of the President Henault's history of France. (J. Dodsley, 1791), by Charles Home (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anglo-Saxon dæg-mæl ... (The Modern language association of America, 1895), by Frederick Tupper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handy-book for verifying dates (Wyman and Sons, Printers], 1887), by John James Bond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Imperial anniversary book (W. Briggs, 1909), by Harold Saxon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Handy-book of rules and tables for verifying dates with the Christian era : giving an account of the chief eras, and systems used by various nations, with easy methods for determining the corresponding dates; with regnal years of English sovereigns from the Norman conquest to the present time, A.D. 1066 to 1874 (G. Bell, 1875), by John James Bond (page images at HathiTrust)
• British history, chronologically arranged; comprehending a classified analysis of events and occurrences in church and state; and of the constitutional, political, commercial, intellectual, and social progress of the United Kingdom, from the first invasion by the Romans to A.D. 1847. (H.C. Bohn, 1847), by John Wade (page images at HathiTrust)
• A handbook of English politics for the last half-century : being an outline of English political history ; chronologicaly arranged with full lists of ministries, notes, etc. (Rivingtons, 1883), by Arthur Herbert Dyke Acland and Cyril Ransome (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handy-book of rules and tables for verifying dates of historical events, and of public and private documents; giving tables of regnal years of English sovereigns ... 1066-1866. (Bell and Daldy, 1866), by John James Bond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handy-book of rules and tables for verifying dates with the Christian era giving an account of the chief eras, and systems used by various nations, &c, &c. (G. Bell & Sons, 1889), by John James Bond (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Brut; or, The chronicles of England, ed. from ms. Rawl. B 171, Bodleian library, & c. (Pub. for the Early English text society, by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., ltd. [etc.], 1906), by Friedrich W. D. Brie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dickens's dictionary of days : being an every-day record of 1880. With calender of useful information for 1881. (C. Dickens, 1881), by Charles Dickens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Origines juridiciales, or, Historical memorials of the English laws, courts of justice, forms of tryall, punishment in cases criminal, law writers, law books, grants and settlements of estates, degree of serjeant, Innes of court and chancery also, a chronologie of the lord chancelors and keepers of the great seal, lord treasurers, justices itinerant, justices of the Kings Bench and Common Pleas, barons of the Exchequer, masters of the rolls, Kings attorneys and sollicitors, & serjeants at law / by William Dugdale, Esq. ... (London : Printed by F. and T. Warren for the author, 1666), by William Dugdale (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Gesta Britannorum, or, A brief chronologie of the actions and exploits, battails, sieges, conflicts, and other signal and remarkable passages which have happened in these His Majesties dominions from the year of Christ 1600, untill the present, 1663, being the space of 62 complete years / collected by Geo. Wharton. (London : Printed by J.G. for the Company of Stationers, 1663), by George Wharton (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Scottish Kings; a revised chronology of Scottish history, 1005-1625, with notices of the principle events, tables of regnal years, pedigrees, calendars, etc. (D. Douglas, 1899), by Archibald Hamilton Dunbar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scottish kings; a revised chronology of Scottish history, 1005-1625, with notices of the principle events, tables of regnal years, pedigrees, calendars, etc. (D. Douglas, 1906), by Archibald Hamilton Dunbar (page images at HathiTrust)

• Colonial chronology. A chronology of the principal events connected with the English colonies and India from the close of the fifteenth century to the present time. (Lawrence & Bullen, 1892), by Henry James Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colonial chronology. (Lawrence & Bullen, 1892), by Henry James Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colonial chronology : a chronology of the principal events connected with the English colonies and India : from the close of the fifteenth century to the present time : with maps (Lawrence & Bullen, 1892), by H. J. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Imperial anniversary book (W. Briggs, 1909), by Harold Saxon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The American and British chronicle of war and politics being an accurate and comprehensive register of the most memorable occurrences in the last ten years of His Majesty's reign : in which will be found above eighteen hundred interesting events, during the late war between Great Britain and America, France, Spain, and Holland, from May 10, 1773 to July 16, 1783; the whole carefully collected from authentic records, and correctly arranged in chronological order. (Printed for the author ..., 1783) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Micro-chronicon, or, A briefe chronology of the time and place of the battels, sieges, conflicts, and other most remarkable passages which have happened betwixt His Majestie and the Parliament from the beginning of these unhappy dissentions to the 25th of March 1647 : together with a catalogue of the Lords, Knights, commanders, and persons of quality slain on either side therein. ([London : s.n.], 1647), by Bruno Ryves (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A table declaring the titles of all such proclamations, as haue beene published in England, during the raigne of our soueragne lord King Iames ([S.l. : B. Norton and J. Bill, 1618]), by England and Wales (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The historian's guide, or, Britain's remembrancer being a summary of all the actions, exploits, sieges, battels, designs, attempts, preferments, honours, changes &c. and whatever else is worthy notice that hath happen'd in His Majesty's kingdoms from Anno. Dom. 1600 to this time : shewing the year, month and day of the month in which each action was done : with an alphabeticall table for the more easie finding any thing out. (London : Printed for W. Crook, 1690), by Samuel Clarke (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The history of England, from the earliest times to the death of George II. (G.G. & J. Robinson [et al.], 1800), by Oliver Goldsmith (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of England from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the abdication of James the Second, 1688 (Phillips, Sampson and Co., 1849), by David Hume and Old University of Chicago Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Britannia (Printed by Mary Matthews, for Awnsham Churchill, and sold by William Taylor ..., 1722), by William Camden, Awnsham Churchill, Mary Matthews, Robert White, and Edmund Gibson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Several humble petitions of D. Bastwicke, M. Burton, M. Prynne, and of Nath. Wickins, servant to the said Mr. Prynne, to the Honourable house of Parliament. ([London], 1641), by John Bastwick, Nathaniel Wickins, William Prynne, Henry Burton, and Great Britain Parliament House of Commons (page images at HathiTrust)
• His Majesty's most gracious answer to the bills & propositions presented to him at Casisbrook Castle in the Isle of Wight, Decemb. 24, 1647 by the Earle of Denbigh, Master Lisle, Master Goodwin, Master Kemp, and Master Bunkly, in the name of his two Houses of Parliament. (Printed for R. Royston, 1648), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I), Richard Royston, King Charles I of England, and England and Wales Parliament (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of his own time (London : Printed for Charles Rivington, 1727., 1727), by Samuel Parker and Puritan Collection of English and American Literature (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Great Britaine under the conquests of ye Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans Their originals, manners, warres, coines & seales: with ye successions, lives, acts & issues of the English monarchs from Iulius Cæsar, to our most gracious soueraigne King Iames. by Iohn Speed. (Imprinted at London : [by William Hall and John Beale] anno cum privilegio 1611 and are to be solde by Iohn Sudbury & Georg Humble, in Popes-head alley at ye signe of ye white Horse, [1611]), by John Speed and Christoph Schweitzer (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Summarie of Englyshe chronicles ([London] : In ædibus Thomæ Marshi, [1565]), by John Stow (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Annales (Printed at London : By [Henry Bynneman for] Ralphe Newberie, at the assignement of Henrie Bynneman. Cum priuilegio Regiæ Maiestatis, [1580]), by John Stow (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The strange monster or, true news from Nottingham-shire of a strange monster born at Grasly in Nottingham-shire, three miles from Nottingham with a relation of his strange and wonderful shape, the time his mother was in travail with him, with several other things of note. Together with a brief relation of several monstrous and prodigious births which happened heretofore in this our nation. Licensed according to order. ([London] : Printed by Peter Lillierap [sic] living in Clerkenwell-Close, 1668) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An exact chronological history and full display of popes intollerable usurpations upon the antient just rights, liberties, of the kings, kingdoms, clergy, nobility, commons of England and Ireland ([London : s.n., 1666]), by William Prynne (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Anglia rediviva being a full description of all the shires, cities, principal towns and rivers, in England : with some useful observations concerning what is most remarkable ... : to which is prefix'd a short account of the first origine of our nation, of its being conquer'd by the Romans, as also the occasion of the Saxons and Danes first entring England / collected from the best historians by Mr. Dunstar. (London : Printed for T. Bennet [and three others], 1699), by Mr. Dunstar (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The mansion of magnanimitie. Wherein is shewed the most high and honorable acts of sundrie English kings, princes, dukes, earles, lords, knights and gentlemen, from time to time performed in defence of their princes and countrie: set forth as an encouragement to all faithfull subiects, by their example resolutely to addresse them selues against all forreine enemies. Published by Richard Crompton an apprentice of the common law. 1599. Whereunto is also adioyned a collection of diuerse lawes ... with a briefe table, shewing what munition ought to be kept by all sorts of her Maiesties subiects ... (London : Printed [by Richard Field] for VVilliam Ponsonby, 1599), by Richard Crompton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The history of the rook and turkeys. ([London : printed for Randal Taylor, near Stationers-Hall, 1694]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• This seconde volume, beginning at William the Conquerour. ([Imprinted at London : By Henry Denham, dwelling in Paternoster Rowe, for Richarde Tottle and Humffrey Toye], Anno Domini. 1569. [the last of March]), by Richard Grafton and Virgil Solis (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The faithful analist:, or, The epitome of the English history: giving a true accompt of the affairs of this nation, from the building of the tower in London, in the days of William the Conquerour, to the throwing down the gates of the said city, by the command of the Parliament, which state before the secluded members were admitted, in the yeer 1660. In which all things remarkable both by sea and land from the yeer 1069. To this present yeer of 1660 are truly and exactly represented. (London : Print. for W. Gilbertson in Giltspur Street, [1660]), by G. W. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• England's vvorthies. Select lives of the most eminent persons from Constantine the Great, to the death of Oliver Cromwel late Protector. / By William Winstanley, Gent. (London, : Printed for Nath. Brooke, at the sign of the Angel in Cornhill, 1660), by William Winstanley (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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