* 1644 – English Civil War: Battle of Marston Moor.

July 2: Battle of Marston Moor.

* July 2 – English Civil War – Battle of Marston Moor: The Parliamentarians crush the Royalists, ending Charles I's hold on the north of England.

On 2 July 1644, Parliamentary commanders Lord Fairfax, Lord Leven and the Earl of Manchester defeated Royalist forces at the Battle of Marston Moor.

These reforms led to the creation of the New Model Army led by Sir Thomas Fairfax, son of the victorious Lord Fairfax at the Battle of Marston Moor.

He fought with distinction at the Battle of Marston Moor in 1644.

Buried in the graveyard is an ancestor of the 19th century American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and the grandparents of Thomas Fairfax who commanded Parliament's forces at the Battle of Marston Moor in 1644.

The Battle of Marston Moor

During the English Civil War, between Royalists and Parliamentarians, the Battle of Marston Moor was fought on land to the west of York.

The building is often referred to as " Rupert's Barn " because Prince Rupert of the Rhine is said to have stationed part of his army in the barn before the Battle of Marston Moor in 1644 during the English Civil War.

He fought at the Battle of Marston Moor, commanded one of Cromwell's two regiments of cavalry at the Battle of Naseby and at the capture of Bristol, was then sent into Oxfordshire, took Banbury, and was besieging Worcester when he was superseded, according to Richard Baxter, the chaplain of his regiment, because of his religious orthodoxy.

Meetings of Pension resumed after the Battle of Marston Moor but the education system remained dormant.

Fairfax was victorious at Selby on 11 April 1644, and joining the Scots, besieged York, after which he was present at the Battle of Marston Moor ( 2 July 1644 ), where he commanded the infantry and was routed.

At the Battle of Marston Moor, Goring commanded the Royalist left, and charged with great success, but, allowing his troopers to disperse in search of plunder, was routed by Oliver Cromwell at the close of the battle.

After the Royalist defeat at the Battle of Marston Moor, he took command of the surviving cavalry from Newcastle's army.

In 1644, Leven commanded an army that he marched to England to take part in the unsuccessful Siege of York, before participating in the Battle of Marston Moor.

He fought at the Battle of Marston Moor in 1644, where an observer wrote: " Colonel Sidney charged with much gallantry in the head of my Lord Manchester's regiment of horses, and came off with many wounds, the true badges of his honour ".

The next day, Parliamentary forces defeated Rupert at the Battle of Marston Moor, six miles west of York, making the surrender of York and the castle inevitable.

The Earl of Manchester ’ s army passed through Gainsborough in May 1644 on its way to York and the Battle of Marston Moor.

A contemporary Parliamentarian newspaper asserted that it was the Royalist Prince Rupert who had given Cromwell the nickname after Rupert's defeat at Marston Moor in July 1644: Munday we had intelligence that Lieutenant-Gen. Cromwell alias Ironside ( for that title was given him by P. Rupert after his defeate neere York ) Battle of Marston Moor | at Marston Moor was about Redding ( sic ) with 2500 horse marching towards Sir William Waller.

The regiment played a major part in the victory over the Royalists at the Battle of Marston Moor, where the discipline of Cromwell's wing of horse was decisive.

* 1332 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Dupplin Moor – Scots under Domhnall II, Earl of Mar are routed by Edward Balliol.

* 1469 – Wars of the Roses: the Battle of Edgecote Moor pitting the forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick against those of Edward IV of England takes place.

* The first bow comes from the Battle of Hedgeley Moor in 1464, during the Wars of the Roses.

* Sir Robert, died 1332 at the Battle of Dupplin Moor ;

* July 26 – Battle of Edgecote Moor: The House of Lancaster defeats the House of York.

* June 30 – First English Civil War – Battle of Adwalton Moor: Cavaliers ( supporters of Charles I ) gain control of Yorkshire.

* December 19 The Jacobite army led by Bonnie Prince Charlie ; on retreat from Derby, was defeated by the Duke of Cumberland at the Battle of Clifton Moor near Penrith, Cumberland.

* February 27 – Battle of Ancrum Moor: The Scots are victorious over superior English forces.

* April 25 – Battle of Hedgeley Moor: Yorkist forces under Lord Montague defeat Lancastrians under Sir Ralph Percy, who is killed.

* A small Scottish and French force invades Northumberland, loots the city of Berwick-upon-Tweed and defeats a small English force at the Battle of Nesbit Moor ( 1355 ).

* February 19 – Battle of Bramham Moor: a royalist army defeats the last remnants of the Percy rebellion.

* August 10 – August 11 – Battle of Dupplin Moor: The Balliol rebels and the English defeat the loyalists of David II in Scotland.

* August 11 – Domhnall II, Earl of Mar, Sir Robert Keith, Thomas Randolph, 2nd Earl of Moray, Murdoch III, Earl of Menteith and Robert Bruce ( at the Battle of Dupplin Moor )

At the Battle of Dupplin Moor, Balliol's army, commanded by Henry Beaumont, defeated the larger Scottish force.

* Battle of Dupplin Moor, 1332

A group of English magnates known as The Disinherited, who had lost land in Scotland by the peace accord, staged an invasion of Scotland and won a great victory at the Battle of Dupplin Moor in 1332.

The main part of the king's army ( without Edward ) was defeated at the Battle of Edgecote Moor in 1469, and Edward was subsequently captured at Olney.

** Battle of Bramham Moor ( 1408 ).

After winning the Battle of Edgecote Moor on 26 July 1469, the earl found the Yorkist king deserted by his followers, and brought him to Warwick Castle for " protection ".

In 1464, he commanded a Yorkist force that turned the tables on a Lancastrian ambush at the Battle of Hedgeley Moor, and launched a surprise attack at the Battle of Hexham.

However, the fighting resumed in the 1330s during the early reign of King Edward III, with significant English victories at the Battle of Dupplin Moor and the Battle of Halidon Hill.