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* '''1327''' – Murder of King [[Edward II]] | * '''1327''' – Murder of King [[Edward II]] | ||
* '''1391''' – Death of Sir [[John Clanvowe]] and Richard Neville | * '''1391''' – Death of Sir [[John Clanvowe]] and Richard Neville | ||
==16th century== | |||
* '''1533'' – [[Buggery Act 1533]] | |||
==18th century== | ==18th century== | ||
Revision as of 16:24, 12 October 2011
2nd century
- 117 – Emperor Hadrian visits Britain.
14th century
- 1327 – Murder of King Edward II
- 1391 – Death of Sir John Clanvowe and Richard Neville
16th century
- '1533 – Buggery Act 1533
18th century
- 1726 – Three men convicted of sodomy following cases brought by Thomas Newton
- 1780 – The Ladies of Llangollen set up home together
19th century
- 1810 – The White Swan, Vere Street raided
- 1885 – Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 makes "gross indenceny" a crime
- 1895 – Oscar Wilde convicted of gross indecency
20th century
- 1958 – Albany Trust formed
- 1967 - Sexual Offences Act 1967 partially decriminalises sex between men in England and Wales
- 1967 7 October – North Western Homosexual Law Reform Committee formed, later to be re-founded as CHE
- 1971 – CHE London Group Seven (later Croydon Area Gay Society) founded
- 1972 – Allegro Music Group formed.
- 1972 – Gay News first published.
- 1988 – Section 28 passed
- 1992 – Gay Men Fighting AIDS founded (later GMFA)
- 1995 – Adonis Art Gallery founded.
- 1999 30 April – Admiral Duncan pub bombed.
21st century
- 2000 – Section 28 repealed in Scotland.
- 2001 – Croydon Friend closed.
- 2003 – Section 28 repealed in England and Wales.