The city of York was founded as the Roman city of Eboracum in 71 AD and became the northernmost provincial capital in the Roman Empire. In fact, Constantine was declared Emperor here in 306. After the fall of the Roman Empire, York became the capital of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria.
Vikings invaded in the 9th century, and York was a Danish trading center for two centuries until the Normans took England. Medieval York was England’s second largest city and became wealthy on the wool trade. In the 15th century, it was involved in the War of the Roses, and its city symbol is still a white rose. Henry VIII made York the capital of his northern church, and today’s York Minster is still one of the most powerful in the Church of England.
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