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All rights reserved. en-gb contact@historyfiles.co.uk (The History Files) https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/images/rss/historyFilesTitle_rss.png https://www.historyfiles.co.uk https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/MainNewLists.htm The accession of Honorius (in the west) and Arcadius (in the east) was marked by a basic change in the internal role of the emperor, which affected east and west differently, with those in the east after the death of Theodosius in 395 being heads of state but no longer holding effective power. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/GreeceByzantiumTheodosius.htm Mon, 18 May 2026 20:00:00 GMT Bridgend Mission Room, Lostwithiel East, was built about 1880 as a chapel of ease for St Winnow, later becoming St Saviour Mission Chapel until a time before 2012. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/ChurchesBritain/SouthWest/Cornwall_Caradon07.htm Sat, 16 May 2026 20:00:00 GMT The Roman empire did not end with the fall of the west in AD 476, it continued into the fifteenth century with a series of dynasties being based in the great eastern city of Constantinople. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/GreeceByzantium.htm Fri, 14 May 2026 20:00:00 GMT St Luke's Church, Newton Poppleford, began in 1331 as a medieval chantry chapel on the site at which 'an ancient chapel stood', presumably Saxon or Norman. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/ChurchesBritain/SouthWest/Devon_EastDevon26.htm Thu, 14 May 2026 20:00:01 GMT The Neolithic Ha Long succeeded the Cai Beo as the latest in a line of highly-localised archaeological cultures which were focussed on the western side of the Gulf of Tonkin. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsFarEast/CulturesHaLong.htm Thu, 14 May 2026 20:00:00 GMT The Neolithic Cai Beo (or Cei Bau) succeeded the Soi Nhu, a localised South-East Asian Palaeolithic culture which was focussed on the western side of Vietnam's Gulf of Tonkin. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsFarEast/CulturesCaiBeo.htm Wed, 13 May 2026 20:00:00 GMT Treviscoe Wesleyan Methodist Chapel began with a Sunday school, set at the site's rear and shown on the OS 1892-1914 map, while this chapel was built in 1911. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/ChurchesBritain/SouthWest/Cornwall_Restormel12.htm Tue, 12 May 2026 20:00:01 GMT The Soi Nhu was the second-earliest South-East Asian culture to emerge which was specific to the Vietnam region, focussed on the Ha Long Bay area of the Gulf of Tonkin which includes over two thousand islands and islets which emerge from the gulf's emerald waters or from coastal stretches of freshwater swamp forest. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsFarEast/CulturesSoiNhu.htm Tue, 12 May 2026 20:00:00 GMT The Rattanakosin kingdom and its ruling Chakri dynasty directly succeeded the Thonburi kingdom in Thailand, witnessing the accession of a dynasty which remains on the throne today and, since 1932, has governed as a constitutional monarchy. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsFarEast/SouthEastThailandRattanakosin.htm Mon, 11 May 2026 20:00:00 GMT The Church of St Peter, Exton, has a probable construction date in the Norman period, but much of the building has been reconstructed, with the crenellated two-stage tower being added in the thirteenth century. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/ChurchesBritain/SouthWest/Somerset_WestSomerset07.htm Sat, 09 May 2026 20:00:00 GMT The town of Phitsanulok sits along the River Nan in northern-central Thailand, also being known as Chinnarat, and having a rich history which dates to the eleventh century. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsFarEast/SouthEastThailandPhitsanulok.htm Fri, 08 May 2026 20:00:00 GMT The Church of St Winoccus, St Winnoc, occupies a site which has been in use since seventh century oratory of St Winnoc was (probably) built here, a stone church only arriving in the 1100s. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/ChurchesBritain/SouthWest/Cornwall_Caradon06.htm Thu, 07 May 2026 20:00:01 GMT When Ayutthaya was destroyed by Birmese attacks in 1767, the country fragmented, with Krung Thonburi being the strongest of those fractures, gradually to rebuild a single state. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsFarEast/SouthEastThailandKrungThonburi.htm Thu, 07 May 2026 20:00:00 GMT This was located in what is now northern Thailand, a principality which was centred on the city of the same name, within the vicinity of an older Lao principality named Ngoenyang. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsFarEast/SouthEastThaisChiangSaen.htm Wed, 06 May 2026 20:00:00 GMT The Parish Church of St Gregory the Great, Harpford, potentially stands on the site of a wooden Saxon construction, which was replaced by a small, simple stone Norman church from which the base of the font survives. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/ChurchesBritain/SouthWest/Devon_EastDevon25.htm Tue, 05 May 2026 20:00:01 GMT Details for this state are extremely few, but its general location later became part of the territory of a late medieval principality known as Chiang Saen, located within the vicinity of an older Lao principality named Ngoenyang. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsFarEast/SouthEastThaisYonoknapan.htm Tue, 05 May 2026 20:00:00 GMT At the height of its power this city and its surrounding kingdom were one of the world's largest and wealthiest locations, with a population of about a million inhabitants, built onto an island which was surrounded by three rivers. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsFarEast/SouthEastThailandAyutthaya.htm Mon, 04 May 2026 20:00:00 GMT Four hermit monks directed the founding of the city of Haripunjaya, before they invited the ruler of Lavo (now Lopburi) to send his daughter to govern the city as its queen. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsFarEast/SouthEastThaisHaripunjaya.htm Sun, 03 May 2026 20:00:00 GMT The existence of Basal Eurasians is known only through recent DNA analysis which, in the twenty-first century, has come along in leaps and bounds to make possible this level of examination. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/FeaturesMiddEast/PrehistoryBasalEurasians01.htm Sat, 02 May 2026 20:00:00 GMT The modern city of Lampang is the third-largest in northern Thailand, capital of Lampang province and a transportation hub which is surrounded by forest. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsFarEast/SouthEastThaisLampang.htm Fri, 01 May 2026 20:00:00 GMT Dulverton Bible Christian Chapel was built in 1902, somewhat late in terms of the arrival of Methodism into most towns in the region, but the movement had long struggled to find a foothold in the Exmoor area. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/ChurchesBritain/SouthWest/Somerset_WestSomerset06.htm Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:00:01 GMT One of the earliest known states in the region, Langasaka is thought to have existed from the second century AD to the fifteenth century, founded by an Indian prince. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsFarEast/SouthEastThaisLangasaka.htm Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:00:00 GMT The capital at Lamphun was founded about AD 750, but was captured by Lan Na in 1292 and then, in 1558, the Burmese established their own overlordship over the principality. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsFarEast/SouthEastThaisLamphun.htm Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:00:00 GMT St Clement's Church in Sandwich was originally built in a characteristically Norman cruciform plan in the twelfth century when Sandwich was becoming a royal harbour of some importance. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/ChurchesBritain/SouthEast/Kent_Dover08.htm Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:00:01 GMT This developed into an elephant training centre as well as a farming community, with Chankale (Shangale) being appointed the first ruler of this small state in 1874. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsFarEast/SouthEastThaisMaeHongSon.htm Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:00:00 GMT It was founded as a Thai vassal and would remain so until 1438 when it managed to achieve independence until Ayutthaya reasserted Thai controls in the sixteenth century. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsFarEast/SouthEastThaisNakhonSiThammarat.htm Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:00:00 GMT The Church of St Gorran (or Goronus), Gorran Church Town, originated from St Goran(us), a Welsh hermit who travelled to Bodmin, but supposedly then moved from Bodmin to this location. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/ChurchesBritain/SouthWest/Cornwall_Restormel05.htm Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:00:01 GMT The conquered Muang Pua state was re-established and moved to Nan in the mid-fourteenth century when a group of small muang (principalities) united to form the state of Nan, or Nanthaburi. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsFarEast/SouthEastThaisNan.htm Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:00:00 GMT This sultanate became tributary to Ayutthaya in 1563, after which it usually remained a vassal of the Thais as long as the Thais were unified under strong kings. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsFarEast/SouthEastThaisPatani.htm Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:00:00 GMT The Church of St Vepus, St Veep, is first mentioned in 1236-1237 at the same time as St Cadoc's, being dedicated to the unique and obscure local saint, St Veep. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/ChurchesBritain/SouthWest/Cornwall_Caradon05.htm Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:00:00 GMT This sultanate was founded about 1605 in the form of Singora, meaning 'city of lions', a name which was altered through several centuries of use to become today's Songkhla. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsFarEast/SouthEastThaisSongkhla.htm Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:00:00 GMT The Church of St Peter, Sidford, was built in 1865 as a chapel-of-ease, the largest building in Sidford, and one of two Anglican churches in the parish of Sidbury with Sidford. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/ChurchesBritain/SouthWest/Devon_EastDevon24.htm Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:00:01 GMT This was an early, small Thai state which occupied the central part of the isthmus of Kra in what is now southern Thailand, to the north of Langasaka. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsFarEast/SouthEastThaisTambralinga.htm Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:00:00 GMT This was one of the minor Thai principalities, located in what is now northern-central Thailand and with a principal city which was founded in AD 1371 on the River Yom under Khmer overlordship. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsFarEast/SouthEastThaisPhrae.htm Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:00:00 GMT The Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Brompton Regis, replaced a Saxon church in the thirteenth century under the direction of the monks of nearby Barlynch Priory. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/ChurchesBritain/SouthWest/Somerset_WestSomerset05.htm Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:00:01 GMT The Thai principality of Muong Sua (or Muong Swa) was established by settlers in the late seventh century AD (and is now the city of Louangphrabang in Laos). https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsFarEast/SouthEastMuongSua.htm Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:00:00 GMT At the height of its power around AD 1300, this Thai state controlled several vassal regions to encompass much of modern central and western Thailand, northern Laos, and coastal Burma, plus the Malay peninsula. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsFarEast/SouthEastThailandSukhothai.htm Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:00:00 GMT The modern Thai Rattanakosin kingdom is the main home of ethnic Thais, although a great deal of migratory change in recent years has altered the country's population make-up. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsFarEast/SouthEastThais.htm Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:00:00 GMT Within fifty years of the first Russian contact, the Aleut population was at a figure of between 12,000-15,000, dropping to two thousand by 1999. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/FeaturesAmericas/NorthNative_Compendium02.htm Sat, 11 Apr 2026 20:00:00 GMT Archaeology has accumulated increasing amounts of evidence to support the emergence of rice farming in South-East Asia between 2500-2000 BC, accompanied by tools and pottery which reveal links to southern China. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsFarEast/SouthEastThailand.htm Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:00:00 GMT The French protectorate of Cambodia was declared in 1863, with a formal confirmation in 1864, and covering territory which included today's Cambodia, southern Vietnam, and part of southern Laos. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsFarEast/SouthEastFrenchCambodia.htm Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:00:00 GMT The Church St Agnes of Rome, behind the slipway at Pergelis near the old lifeboat shed on St Agnes isle, is the most south-westerly church in Britain, erected in 1823. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/ChurchesBritain/SouthWest/ScillyIsles_General08.htm Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:00:01 GMT Today's kingdom of Cambodia is a small country which is a surviving relic of the Khmer empire, grown from several early medieval kingdoms but gradually whittled down during the early modern period. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsFarEast/SouthEastCambodia.htm Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:00:00 GMT Lieutenant General Lon Nol overthrew the monarchy in 1970 to establish the 'Khmer Republic' or 'First Republic', although this pro-American state had to give way in 1975/1976. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsFarEast/SouthEastCambodiaRepublics.htm Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:00:00 GMT The 'First Kingdom', as it would be called, was a constitutional monarchy, with the king a relatively authoritarian figure who often faced a demanding national assembly. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsFarEast/SouthEastCambodiaFirst.htm Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:00:00 GMT The Church of St Francis of Assisi, Middle Woolbrook, Sidmouth, is shown already in place on the OS 25-inch map of 1892-1914, despite a date of the 1930s being given for its founding. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/ChurchesBritain/SouthWest/Devon_EastDevon23.htm Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:00:00 GMT