For a brief period in the 8th century the kingdom encompassed the Kentish Kingdom to the South.

There is also evidence of South Saxon territory breaking away from West Saxon dominance in the early 720s, and this may indicate Æthelbald's increasing influence in the area, though it could have been Kentish, rather than Mercian, influence that was weakening West Saxon control.

For some years trains ran from Kentish Town to Victoria station on the South Eastern and Chatham Railway.

When Kentish Town station opened the next CCE & HR station south was South Kentish Town but that station closed in 1924 due to low usage.

In 1891 the original Ashford United was formed when the South Eastern Rangers amalgamated with Kentish Express FC.

South Kentish Town tube station is a disused London Underground station which was on the Northern Line between Camden Town and Kentish Town.

A prose piece called South Kentish Town was written in 1951 by Sir John Betjeman, and told the fictional story of a passenger who became trapped in the disused station.

* South Kentish Town Station, circa 1909.

de: South Kentish Town ( London Underground )

* 2 tph to Kentish Town ( stopping service via Bromley South and Catford )

* 2tph to Kentish Town, calling at all stations via Bromley South, Catford and Elephant & Castle

* 2tph ( trains per hour ) to Kentish Town, calling at all stations via Bromley South, Catford and Elephant & Castle

* 2tph ( trains per hour ) to Kentish Town, calling at all stations via Bromley South, Catford and Elephant & Castle

* South Kentish Town — station closed in 1924 but building remains.

* South Kentish Town ( closed 1924 )

Initially the Godhelm Ingas would have had a quite an independent existence but the local Lord would have soon sworn fealty to a neighbouring king, be it South Saxons, East Saxons, Kentish or West Saxons depending on the politics of the time.

In the post deregulation period Northern Counties had to broaden their customer base and therefore attracted orders for Olympian from a variety of customers including Atlas Bus, Badgerline, Blazefield Group, Borehamwood Travel Services ( BTS ), Boro ' line Maidstone, Bristol City Line, Busways Travel Services Ltd., Cambus Ltd, Capital Citybus / Ensignbus, Chester City Transport, County Bus & Coach, East Kent, East Yorkshire Motor Services, Eastbourne Buses, Eastern Counties, Fareway Passenger Services Ltd, Isle of Man Transport, Kentish Bus ( Proudmutal Group ), London Buses ( Bexleybus ), London Buslines, Maidstone & District, Merseybus, Nottingham City Transport, OK Motor Services, Preston Bus, South Notts Bus Company, South Yorkshire Road Transport, Stagecoach and Yorkshire Rider.

* 1977 – Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 in King William's Town, South Africa.

* Cape Town, South Africa ; since 1999.

* Ajax Cape Town FC, a South African football club

* Alfred Town, a village in New South Wales, Australia

Ajax has also expanded its talent searching program to South Africa with Ajax Cape Town.

There are some youth players from Ajax Cape Town that have been drafted into the Eredivisie squad, such as South African international Steven Pienaar ( on loan to Everton ) and Cameroonian international Eyong Enoh.

He eclipsed the long-standing record of 51. 88 per cent by the South African J. H. Sinclair ( 106 out of 177 and 4 out of 35 ) against England at Cape Town in an 1898 – 1899 series.

Towards the end of 1918, Frances sent a letter to Johanna Parvin, a friend in Cape Town, South Africa, where Frances had lived for most of her life, enclosing the photograph of her with the fairies.

Desmond Tutu, the former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, has described homophobia as a " crime against humanity " and " every bit as unjust " as apartheid: " We struggled against apartheid in South Africa, supported by people the world over, because black people were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about ; our very skins.

* 1967 – At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human ( 53-year-old Louis Washkansky ).

Remains of Palmerston Town Hall, destroyed by Cyclone TracyIn 1863, the Northern Territory was annexed from New South Wales by the young colony of South Australia.

* 1967 – Louis Washkansky, the first man to undergo a heart transplant, dies in Cape Town, South Africa, after living for 18 days after the transplant.

School children in Cape Town, South Africa.

Christ in Triumph over Darkness and Evil by Gabriel Loire ( 1982 ) at St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town, South Africa, in memory of Lord Mountbatten.

* 1988 – South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with 100 clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town.

* 1990 – Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner.

This changed the momentum as South Africa secured wins in Durban and Cape Town, where Cronje scored his fourth test century, he was the first captain since W. G. Grace to win a three-match rubber after being one down.

South Africa won the series with England in the fourth Test at Cape Town, Cronje's fiftieth as captain.

19th-century South Africa did not attract mass Irish migration, but Irish communities are to be found in Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Kimberley, and Johannesburg, with smaller communities in Pretoria, Barberton, Durban and East London.

* IOI 1997 was held in Cape Town, South Africa, November 30 – December 7, 1997

The first insurance company in the United States underwrote fire insurance and was formed in Charles Town ( modern-day Charleston ), South Carolina, in 1732.

* 1993 – The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.

Cape Town: A. A. Balkema for the Friends of the South African Library, 1976 ISBN 0-86961-068-6

* 1829 – South African College is founded in Cape Town, South Africa ; it will later separate into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools.