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The following is a list of events which show distuingishment between Northern England and England/Southern England.

Defining what evidences distinguishment

The events in this list demonstrate differential treatment of Northern England or its inhabitants, or show historical acknowledgement of distinction between the region and the rest of England.

This acknowledgement of distinction may come from natives or those outside of the North of England.

Pre-formation of England

Date	Name	Description
~ 2nd Century CE	Iron Age tribes in Britain	Borders of tribal states in pre-Roman Britain show a separation of the North and the South. The North of modern day England was mostly consolidated under the Brigantes, who controlled an area with extreme closeness to the borders of modern day Northern England.
197	Britannia Inferior	A Roman Province established sometime after the Roman conquest of Britain which comprised of Northern England and the Midlands, as opposed to Britannia Superior in the south. Britannia Inferior was governed entirely separately from Britannia Superior.
296	Britannia Secunda	A later region that came about after reorganisation of the British Provinces under Rome. Britannia Secunda correlates more accurately than Britannia Inferior to modern day Northern England, and the rest of the provinces of Britain created at this time also strongly resemble todays borders of Wales, Scotland, the Midlands and Southern England.
550	Hen Ogledd	A group of states which shared a common culture and language distinct from the rest of the island in sub-Roman Britain. Because Germanic migration to Britain came from the south and east, the north west of what is now England retained their Celtic culture for much longer, leading to a unique polity borne out of increasing isolation from their Welsh cousins.
653 - 954	Northumbria	A kingdom with borders with almost identical borders to what is now Northern England. Northumbria over time conquered the remnants of the Old North and became a powerful state in Anglo-Saxon Britain. The Northumbrian Golden Age is an example of the thriving culture that existed in Northumbria in the 7th and 8th centuries.
867 - 954	Scandinavian York	The southern region of Northumbria began to be dominated and ruled by Danish settlers. The staticity of the borders during this time period indicate an established understanding of the separation between Northern and southern England.

Post-formation of England

Date	Name	Description
1065	Northumbrian Revolt of 1065	Suggested to have been partly caused by its inhabitants resenting having a southerner placed over them.
1069 - 1070	Harrying of the North	After William the Conqueror's conquest of England responded to Northern resistance by laying waste to most of Northern England using scorched earth tactics before installing Norman aristocrats throughout the region. Some modern day scholars have labelled the campaigns a genocide, and records from the Domesday Book of 1086 show that 75% of the population died or never returned. The Anglo-Norman chronicler Orderic Vitalis wrote that it caused more than 100,000 people to die of starvation.
1405	Tripartite Indenture	During the Glyndŵr Rising, an agreement was made between Owain Glyndŵr, Edmund Mortimer and Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland to divide England and Wales up between them upon the successful result of Glyndŵr's campaign. As part of the agreement, Percy would rule a kingdom in Northern England along with some parts of the midlands, whilst Mortimer would rule the rest of England in the south. This agreement evidences recognition of the North as a unique polity with the potential to be it's own independent state.
1484	Council of the North
1536	Pilgrimage of Grace
1537	Bigod's Rebellion
1569	Rising of the North