Answer (1 of 31): England became inhabited more than 800,000 years ago, as the discovery of stone tools and footprints at Happisburgh in Norfolk has revealed. [1] The earliest evidence for early modern humans in North West Europe, a jawbone discovered in Devon at Kents Cavernin 1927, was re-dat...

30/01/2022 · Scotland, ruled from London since 1603, formally was joined with England and Wales in 1707 to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain. (The adjective “British” came into use at this time to refer to all the kingdom’s peoples.)

11/09/2001 · In United Kingdom: Ancient Britain. Archaeologists working in Norfolk in the early 21st century discovered stone tools that suggest the presence of humans in Britain from about 800,000 to 1 million years ago.

Legend says that London was founded not by the Romans of the 1st century AD, but in a far more ancient time by Brutus the Trojan, around 1070 BC, about 1000 years before the Roman invasion.

This resulted in the UK Government introducing its first Clean Air Act in 1956. In 1961 the UK established the world's first co-ordinated national air pollution monitoring network, called the National Survey. It monitored black smoke and sulphur dioxide at around 1200 sites in the UK.

Bank of England branches were first established in 1826 as a response to the financial crisis of 1825 to 1826, which saw many country and provincial banks fail. One of the main reasons for establishing branch banks was to enable us to take further control of the banknote circulation, in order to prevent another crisis.

The standard length of game in football is 90 minutes. This duration was established for the first time in 1866 when London and Sheffield played against one another. For one reason or another, from here onward, 90 minutes was set as the standard duration for football games. Although, modern underage games do not use the 90-minute format.