In 1175, Abergavenny Castle was the scene of a reputed massacre of local Welsh chieftains by the pious and ruthless William de Braose.

* 1914 – William Castle, American director and producer ( d. 1977 )

With William Heelis acting for her she bought contiguous pasture, and in 1909 the Castle Farm across the road from Hill Top Farm.

* William Shakespeare's play Hamlet takes place at Kronborg Castle in Helsingør, from whence the English spelling " Elsinore " derived.

Producer William Castle would tout films featuring " Emergo " " Percepto ", the first of a series of gimmicks that would remain popular marketing tools for Castle and others throughout the 1960s.

* Most Inane Technical Advance: Percepto, designed by William Castle for his 1959 film, The Tingler starring Vincent Price.

Harry and William were staying with their father at Balmoral Castle at the time, and the Prince of Wales waited until early the following morning to tell his sons about their mother's death.

In November John retook Rochester Castle from rebel baron William d ' Aubigny in a sophisticated assault.

He was born in 1310 in the Castle of Grizac in the French region of Languedoc ( today part of the commune of Le Pont-de-Montvert, department of Lozère ), the son of William de Grimoard, Lord of Bellegarde, and of Amphélise de Montferrand.

On 11 June 1304, with both of them having witnessed the heroic efforts of their countrymen during King Edward's siege of Stirling Castle, Bruce and William Lamberton made a pact that bound them, each to the other, in “ friendship and alliance against all men .” If one should break the secret pact, he would forfeit to the other the sum of ten thousand pounds.

A 1929 statue of Robert the Bruce is set in the wall of Edinburgh Castle at the entrance, along with one of William Wallace.

On 15 April 1746, the day before the Battle of Culloden, at Dunrobin Castle, a party of the William Sutherland, 17th Earl of Sutherland ’ s militia conducted the last siege fought on the mainland of Great Britain against Jacobin members of clan MacLeod.

The latter commenced the building of Scalloway Castle, but after his imprisonment in 1609 the Crown annexed Orkney and Shetland again until 1643 when Charles I granted them to William Douglas, 7th Earl of Morton.

Ralph was bottled up in Norwich Castle by the combined efforts of Odo of Bayeux, Geoffrey de Montbray, Richard fitzGilbert, and William de Warenne.

* Horace Walpole-The Castle of Otranto " a story, translated by William Marshal, Gent., from the original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto ", the first Gothic novel

* Supporters of William of Orange seize Liverpool Castle.

From there, she would travel northeast to Sandtown and Willow Grove, Delaware, and onto the Camden area where free black agents, William and Nat Brinkley and Abraham Gibbs, guided her north past Dover, Smyrna, and Blackbird, where other agents would take her across the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal to New Castle and Wilmington.

Henry left London, frequently changing his residence ; Anne Boleyn retreated to the Boleyn residence at Hever Castle, but contracted the illness ; her brother-in-law, William Carey, died.

* February 22 – Murder of William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas by James II of Scotland at Stirling Castle.

Peckforton Castle was built between 1844 and 1850 for John Tollemache, the largest landowner in Cheshire at the time, who was described by William Ewart Gladstone as " the greatest estate manager of his day ".

* October 25 – Adam Banastre, Henry de Lea and William Bradshaw attack Liverpool Castle.

* October 18 or 19 – John, King of England, dies at Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire ; he is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry, with William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, as regent.

* Castle Rising is built in Norfolk, England by William d ' Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel.

* September 28 – Henry I of England defeats his older brother Robert Curthose, duke of Normandy, at the Battle of Tinchebrai, and imprisons him in Devizes Castle ; Edgar Atheling and William Clito are also taken prisoner.

William Scott-Elliot in The Story of Atlantis ( 1896 ) elaborated on Blavatsky's account, claiming that Atlantis eventually split into two linked islands, one called Daitya and the other Ruta, and that the latter was later reduced to a final remnant called Poseidonis.

Exorcist author / screenwriter William Peter Blatty said in the book Former Child Stars: The Story of America's Least Wanted that he had " no such recollection " of Plato being offered the role.

Back in England, however, he found his movement sharply divided among provincial Friends ( such as William Rogers, John Wilkinson and John Story ) who resisted establishment of women's meetings and the power of those who resided in or near London.

* Wilson, William E. The Angel and the Serpent: The Story of New Harmony.

* The Short History of the Short Story by William Boyd

* Broad, William J. Teller ’ s War: The Top-Secret Story Behind the Star Wars Deception.

* Two books about the attempted robbery of the De Beers diamonds from the Dome were published in 2004: Diamond Geezers-The Inside Story of the Crime of the Millennium ( ISBN 1843171228 ) written by Kris Hollington, published by Michael O ' Mara Books Ltd, and Dome Raiders-How Scotland Yard Foiled the Greatest Robbery of All Time ( ISBN 1852271949 ) written by Jon Shatford and William Doyle, published by Virgin Books

* Jefferson, William ( 1976 ) Pocket Books, The Story Of The Maharishi, ISBN 10: 0671805266

* Raymond Foxall ( 1959 ) Song for a Prince: The Story of Llywelyn the Great covers the period from King John's invasion in 1211 to the execution of William de Braose.

* The Archers: The True Story ( 1996 ) by William Smethurst ISBN 1-85833-620-1

* The Story Of The Incredible Cottage William Rushton ( Golden Acorn Pub, 1981 )

* Janet Thomson ; The Scot Who Lit The World, The Story Of William Murdoch Inventor Of Gas Lighting ; 2003 ; ISBN 0-9530013-2-6

Extracts were also broadcast in 1925 as part of Shakespeare: Scene and Story, with William Charles Macready and Edna Godfrey-Turner, and in 1926 as part of Shakespeare's Heroines, with Edmund Willard and Madge Titheradge.

The myth of Inanna and Dumuzi formed the subject of a Lindisfarne Symposium, published as The Story of Inanna and Dumuzi: From Folk-Tale to Civilized Literature: A Lindisfarne Symposium, ( William Irwin Thompson, editor, 1995 ).

Among the more notable adaptations of this text are Richard Wagner's tetralogy of music dramas Der Ring des Nibelungen, Ernest Reyer's opera Sigurd, William Morris's epic poem The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs, and J. R. R. Tolkien's The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún.

Following the moderately successful western Nevada, Mitchum was lent from RKO to United Artists for the William Wellman-helmed The Story of G. I.

* 1955: The Taft Story by William S. White

In the fourth season, Carroll O ' Connor took complete control of the show by firing the entire writing staff, except for Cynthia Deming and William J Royce, making them Story Editor ( s ).

* Love Story ( 1952 film ), a 1952 episode written by Jean Holloway and directed by William Corrigan of the Hallmark Hall of Fame

* Hollywood on the Riviera: The Inside Story of the Cannes Film Festival by Cari Beauchamp and Henri Behar ( William Morrow & Co, 1992 )

* Blood and Rage, The Story of the Japanese Red Army, by William R Farrell, Lexington Books: Lexington, Massachusetts, USA.

In order to boost the sales of their Detective Story Magazine, Street and Smith Publications hired David Chrisman of the Ruthrauff & Ryan advertising agency and writer-director William Sweets to adapt the magazine's stories into a radio series.

Delilah ( William Wetmore Story, marble, 1877 )

* William McKee Evans, " To Die Game: The Story of the Lowry Band, Indian Guerrillas of Reconstruction ", Syracuse University Press, 1995

Included among De Leon's most distinguished citizens are former Texas Speaker of the House and later Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes, a protégé of John B. Connally and Lyndon B. Johnson, and the 1955 Pulitzer Prize winner William White, whose The Taft Story focuses upon Republican presidential contender Robert A. Taft.