280 Reformation of the Roman Catholic Church, creating a territory similar to Normandy France of today during the Roman Empire.
500 The Saxon tribes of former Vikings from Germany invade the British Isle and defeat the Druids.
709 Western Kingdom of France taken over by Clotaire, son of Clovis.
820 First Norman raid on the coast by the Viking Manche.
911 Rollon, first Viking Duke of Normandy, through the treaty of St. Clair-Sur-Ept, obtained an area between the valleys of Bresle, L'pte and A'Avre, which enlarged during Normandy's Middle Period and then into its' Westernized form of Normandy.
933 Under the Viking William the Long Sword, Normandy became an independent dukedom.
961 William's son Rollo takes control of Normandy.
1027 Birth at Falaise of William the Bastard, later known as the Conqueror.
1066 Battle of Hastings; conquest of England. William becomes King of France, England, Scotland and Ireland.
1071 Richmond Castle founded by Alan Rufus de Richmond on River Swale.
1071 Death of William the Conqueror, which leads to a split of the Kingdom between his sons.
1086 Roaldus Musard de Richmond loses control of Richmond Castle for a debt owed to his cousin William Rufus, the new King of England.
1093 Scottish King Malcolm slain by William Rufus (son and heir of William the Conqueror) --reunited the lands of England and Scotland.
1135 Henri, the first Beauclerc, restores the Ducal authority.
1174 Scottish King William the Lion held prisoner at Richmond Castle.
1204 Normandy is reunified with the Crown of France.
1314 Robert the Bruce defeats the English at the battle of Bannockburn, Scotland.
1315 The Norman Charter remains the symbol of the individuality of French kingdoms.
1316 Normandy is reoccupied by the English, to reestablish William the Conqueror's family claims -- which had been lost after the death of the last of his direct bloodline in Normandy.
1431 Joan of Arc is executed by the English Church as a Heretic after her capture, while she was attempting to reunite all of France under the French King.
1450 Normandy recovered after victory of Formigny and the capture of Cherbourg.
1594 John Richmond (patriarch of the Taunton, Massachusetts family) is born in Wilshire England.
1603 James Stuart I of Scotland becomes heir to the English and Scottish Throne. Authors the King James Version of the Bible, to solidify the Protestants under Anglican Church rules.
1629 Charles I dissolves Parliament and persecutes all NON-ANGLICANS.
1637 English Civil War starts -- The Kings Cavaliers (Anglicans) vs Cromwell's Roundheads (Puritans and Presbyterians)
1643 John Richmond (with the Roundheads) shoots and kills his brother Henry (with the Cavaliers) during the English Civil War. John is imprisoned and later bought out and exiled to America (Taunton, Massachusetts.)
1647 English King Charles I held as Cromwell's prisoner at Richmond Castle. Later beheaded.
1650 Cromwell as a Puritan, becomes Lord Protectorate and strictly enforces the Puritain Ethic while persecuting all Non-Puritan religions including his former allies the Presbyterians of Scotland.
1660 Cromwell's son could not maintain control after Cromwell's death because of the former persecution of all Non-Puritan Religions. Charles II -- becomes King of England.
1679 The new king's Parliament persecutes Puritans and Scottish Presbyterians. An uprising leads to the exile of Andrew Richmond of Scotland as slave labor to the American Southern Colonies.
1684 John Richmond is executed in Scotland, his head put on a pole as a warning to other Scots. He becomes a Religious Martyr and many of his family flee to America.
1720 James Richmond is born in Aryshire Scotland.
1726 John Richmond is born in Aryshire Scotland.
1740 James and John Richmond arrive in Mecklenburg, Virginia from Aberdeen, Scotland.
1776 American Revolution -- Richmonds of the North and South fight in support of the Patriots.
1805 Robert Richmond (patriarch of Richmonds of Caldwell Parish, Louisiana) is born in Tennesse.
1812 John Richmond jr. of North Carolina is killed in the Creek Indian Wars in Tennesse.
1815 Several of the Richmond boys from Tennesse fight with Andrew Jackson to keep the British out of New Orleans to end the War of 1812.
1823 Robert Richmond married Sarah Jane Wilson in Amite County, Mississippi.
1829 Marion Richmond (3rd child of Robert & Sarah) is born.
1854 Marion Richmond marries Angeline Hebert (a descendant of the Louisiana Cajun exiles) in Caldwell Parish Louisiana.
1856 Enos Richmond is born to Marion and Angeline in Hebert, Cadwell Parish, Louisiana.
1861 The Civil War distroys the Southern way of life. Only two of Robert's male heirs survive.
1. Enos Richmond -- son of Marion J. Richmond and Angeline Hebert
2. Marion J. Richmond -- son of William Harmon Richmond and Mary Ann Miles
1888 Enos Richmond marries Emma Jones. They have 2 boys --Jessie Thomas Richmond and Wylie Richmond. Emma dies giving birth to Wylie and four years later he dies.
1897 Enos remarries to Delia Jones (Emma's younger sister). They have eleven more children: Charles, Laura, Lana, Beatrice, Katie, Floyd, Cicero, Herbert, Alvin, Jim & Dorothy.
(Information contributed by Tim Richmond of Louisiana, USA)
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