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Modern Scarborough has a population approaching 60,000, and is the major holiday resort of the Yorkshire Coast. It is home to residential communities, business, fishing and service industries.

Scarborough was founded around 966 AD by Thorgils Skarthi, a Viking raider. However the new settlement was soon burned to the ground by a rival band of Vikings under Tosti , Lord of Falsgrave, and Harald of Norway . The destruction and massacre meant that very little remained to be recorded in the Domesday survey of 1085. Scarborough recovered under King Henry II who built a stone castle on the headland, and granted charters in 1155 and 1163, permitting a market on the sands, and establishing rule by Burgess es.

In the Middle Ages Scarborough Fair was a six week trading festival attracting merchants from all over Europe. It ran from Assumption Day, the 15th of August, until Michaelmas Day, the 29th September. The Fair continued to be held for 500 years, from the eleventh to the eighteenth century, and is referred to by the song of the same name.

Scarborough and its Castle changed hands seven times between royalists and parliamentarians during the English Civil WarThe English Civil War is the period of conflict in the kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland between 1639 and 1651, and also refers specifically to the two wars ( 1642 1645 and 1648 1649) between the Royalist supporters of Charles I of England and the, of the 1640sCenturies: 16th century 17th century 18th century Decades: 1590s 1600s 1610s 1620s 1630s 1640s 1650s 1660s 1670s 1680s 1690s Years: 1640 1641 1642 1643 1644 1645 1646 1647 1648 1649 Events and Trends The personal union of the crowns of Spain and Portugal, enduring two lengthy and violent sieges. Following this disaster much of the town lay in ruins.

In 1626Events September 30 Nurhaci , chieftain of the Jurchens and founder of the Qing Dynasty dies and is succeeded by his son Hong Taiji. Spanish establish a trading colony on Taiwan. Peter Minuit, director of the New Netherland colony, begins a policy of "pur, a Mrs Farrow discovered a stream of acid water running from one of the cliffs to the south of the town. This gave birth to Scarborough SpaSpa is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Liege. It is situated in a romantic valley amid hills which form part of the Ardennes chain, 27 miles southeast of Liege, and 22 miles southwest of Aix-la-Chapelle. As of January 1st, 2004, Spa had, and attracted a flood of visitors to the town. Scarborough became BritainThe word Britain is used to refer to the United Kingdom (UK): i. the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (from 1927), the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ( 1801- 1927) or the United Kingdom of Great Britain ( 1707- 1801).'s first seaside resort, a position boosted with the coming of the railway in the 1840sEvents and Trends First signing of the Treaty of Waitangi (Te Tiriti o Waitangi) on February 6, 1840 at Waitangi New Zealand. The treaty between the British Crown and Maori made New Zealand a British colony and is considered the founding point of modern N.

Dramatist Alan AyckbournAlan Ayckbourn (born April 12, 1939) is an English playwright. He is a popular and prolific playwright. Ayckbourn was born in London and wrote his first play at prep school when he was about 10. At Haileybury, he toured Europe and America with the school, who has produced some sixty plays in Scarborough, is the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre . Almost all of his plays receive their first performance at this theatre.

The town has a small higher education institution, the University of Hull, Scarborough Campus, (formerly North Riding College and University College Scarborough).