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
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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)
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