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  1943 Bombing raid kills 41 people
1900 1915 Workhouse and schools taken over as hospitals
1850 Victorian  
1800 Georgian
  1799 George III inspects volunteers at Bulmershe
1750 1794 Volunteer force raised against Napoleon
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1650 Stuart 1688 Battle of Reading
  1643 Siege of Reading
1600 1642 Civil War- Reading occupied by Royalists
1550 Tudor
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1050 Saxons and Vikings  
1000 1006 Second Danish Invasion
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850 870 First Danish Invasion
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