Showing content from http://home.clara.net/brianp/misc.html below:
English weights and measures: miscellaneous facts
English weights and measures: Miscellaneous facts.
Gold
A gold bar weighs 400 Troy ounces - that's just about 2 stone.
Kings and Queens of England etc.
This is a list of the people (etc.) in whom's name laws relating to weights and measures were enacted. This is why (for example) the Commonwealth is shown from 1649, and why the EU takes over in 1972. The wars of the roses cloud the issue around 1470, and after the throne was usurped by 'Henry VII' it's all a bit of a nonsense anyway! Since 1972 the EU has supremacy for legislation in the UK.
871- 899 Alfred the great 899- 924 Edward the elder 924- 939 Aethelstan 939- 946 Eadmund 946- 955 Eadred 955- 959 Eadwig 959- 975 Eadgar 975- 978 Edward the martyr 978-1016 Aethelred II (The unready) 1016 Edmund Ironside 1016-1035 Cnut (Canute) 1035-1040 Harold I 1040-1042 Harthacnut 1042-1066 Edward the confessor 1066 Harold II 1066-1087 William I 1087-1100 William II (Rufus) 1100-1135 Henry I 1135-1154 Stephen 1154-1189 Henry II 1189-1199 Richard I (lionheart) 1199-1216 John (lackland) 1216-1272 Henry III 1272-1307 Edward I 1307-1327 Edward II 1327-1377 Edward III 1377-1399 Richard II 1399-1413 Henry IV 1413-1422 Henry V 1422-1471 Henry VI 1461-1483 Edward IV 1483 Edward V 1483-1485 Richard III 1485-1509 Henry VII 1509-1547 Henry VIII 1547-1553 Edward VI 1553-1558 Mary I 1558-1603 Elizabeth I 1603-1625 James I 1625-1649 Charles I 1649-1659 (Commonwealth) 1660-1685 Charles II 1685-1688 James II 1689-1702 William III (and Mary II to 1694) 1702-1714 Anne 1714-1727 George I 1727-1760 George II 1760-1820 George III 1820-1830 George IV 1830-1837 William IV 1837-1901 Victoria 1901-1910 Edward VII 1910-1936 George V 1936 Edward VIII (not crowned) 1936-1952 George VI 1952-1972 Elizabeth II 1972- (European Union)
RetroSearch is an open source project built by @garambo
| Open a GitHub Issue
Search and Browse the WWW like it's 1997 | Search results from DuckDuckGo
HTML:
3.2
| Encoding:
UTF-8
| Version:
0.7.4