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Timeline of England 

1066 - Modern day

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1066 - 1154

1154 - 1485

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1714 - 1837

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1901 - Present

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šŸ“– Key Works

šŸ° Construction

āš–ļø Law

šŸŽ­ Culture

ā˜ ļø Death

šŸ‘‘ Monarchs

šŸ’° Economy

šŸ” Discovery

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šŸ› Politics

šŸ‘¤ Key Personalities

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How to use the timeline

The timeline of England covers the period from 1066 to the modern day. Each period is split into ruling dynasties and are primarily categorised by the ruling monarch. The size of the row given to each monarch is in proportion to the length of their reign to allow for quick comparison.

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The events and people given in the timeline have been chosen carefully to reflect episodes which are typically highlighted as key to that moment in history. Many people and things are omitted and there is little explanation given with for the choice. This is done purpose purposefully to keep the overview concise.

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The timeline was created with two primary learning functions in mind: a brief revision page for those who are studying the broad strokes of English History, or a starting point for intrepid learners to discover decisive moments, from which they can explore in greater detail. We hope the timeline will grow and become increasingly useful.

Norman Period

norman period

1066 - 1154

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1066 - 1135

1135 - 1154

šŸ‘‘ Monarchs

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Major Personalities & Works

son of

William I

son of

William I

grandson of

William I

daughter of

Henry I

William I

1066 - 1087

William the Conqueror

āš”ļø25th Sept 1066 Battle of Stamford Bridge

āš”ļø 14th Oct 1066  Battle of Hastings

šŸ›”Winter 1069-70 Harrying of the North

šŸ›”1075 Earls' Revolt

šŸ›”1075 Wales Campaign

šŸ›1066 Coronation of William I.

šŸ›1066 Beginning of Feudal System.

šŸ›ā›Ŗ Latin becomes language of church and government.

šŸ° 1067 Oxford University established.

āš–ļø1072 Peace of Abernethy between England and Malcom I of Scotland.

šŸ° 1078 Construction of the White Tower, Tower of London.

šŸ° Built Motte and Bailey castles through England.

šŸ‘‘ Edward the Confessor Supposedly promised the throne to William, Duke of Normandy.

šŸ‘¤Edgar Aetheling, closest relative to King Edward the Confessor

šŸ‘‘ Harold Godwinson Previous King

šŸ‘‘Harold Hardrada, King of Norway 

šŸ‘¤ William Fitz Osbern, cousin of William I, controlled England with šŸ‘¤ Bishop Odo (0f Bayeux) in 1067.

šŸ“– Bayeux Tapestry Visual record of 1066.

šŸ“– Doomsday Book Audit of property in England.

William II

1087  - 1100

William Rufus

šŸ›”ļø1088 Rebellion by Odo of Bayeux

šŸ›”1091 Invasion of Normandy

šŸ›”1093 Wales Campaign

šŸ›”1096-99 First Crusade

āš–ļøTrials by Order outlawed

šŸ›1093 Children of Malcolm III forced into exile in England.

šŸ° 1095 Building of Great Hall at the Palace of Westminster.

šŸ‘¤ Anselm of Cantebury

šŸ‘‘Malcolm III, king of Scotland

šŸ‘‘ Robert Curthose, eldest son of William I, become Duke of Normandy in 1087. 

ā˜ ļø1100 William II shot with arrow in hunting accident.

Stephen

1135 - 1154

Henry Beauclerc

Matilda

1141 - 1141

Matilda the Empress

šŸ›”1935-53 The Anarchy Civil War with cousin Matilda

šŸ›”1136 David I invades northern England.

šŸ›”1138 Battle of the Standard

šŸ›”1141 Battle of Lincoln 

šŸ›”1147 Henry of Anjou attempts invasion

šŸ›”1149 Henry of Anjou attacks northern England

šŸ›”1147-50 Second Crusade

šŸ›”Henry of Anjou invades England

šŸ‘¤ Robert Fitzroy, Earl of Gloucester, illegitimate son of Henry I, arrests and imprisons King Stephen of England for 9 months.

šŸ‘‘ Henry of Anjou (future Henry II of England)

šŸ‘‘ David I of Scotland takes Northumbria

šŸ‘‘ Empress Matilda, daughter of Henry I

šŸ‘‘ Queen Matilda, wife of Stephen, captured Robert Fitzroy in 1141.

Henry I

1100 - 1135

Henry Beauclerc

šŸ›”Robert Curthose invades England. Peace is negotiated at an annuity of 3000 marks.

āš”ļø 1106 Tinchebrai, leads to annexation of Normandy.

šŸ›”1111-4 War with France

šŸ›”1114 Wales Campaign

šŸ›”1116-9 War with France

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āš–ļø 1101-2 Treaty of Alton

⛪ 1106 Henry met Anselm and gave up the power to invest bishops.

šŸ›1109 First recorded meeting of the Exchequer, an accounting body created to monitor the English king's finances and debtors.

šŸ›Matilda, married Holy Roman Emperor Henry V ā˜ ļø 1125. Matilda remarried in 1128: Count Geoffrey of Anjou, known by the nickname 'Plantagenet' because his family coat of arms included the broom plant (planta genista).

šŸ›Henry I appointed daughter, Matilda, as heir after White Ship wreck.

šŸ‘¤ Robert Curthose, eldest son of William I, defeated at Battle of Tinchebrai 1106. Imprisoned for life.

šŸ‘‘ Alexander I, of Scotland, assists Henry I in Wales.

ā˜ ļø 1120 White Ship wreck. Henry's heirs, William and Richard, are killed.

šŸ‘‘ 1128 Henry's daughter Matilda marries Geoffrey of Anjou.

ā˜ ļø1135 Legend: Henry I died from overeating lampreys (a type of eel).

šŸ‘¤Archbishop Anselm

šŸ‘‘ Queen Matilda. Married to Henry I, daughter of Malcolm III of Scotland.

House of Normandy
House of Blois

šŸ›1135 Stephen, Count of Blois, richest baron in England and nephew of Henry I, appointed king by Barons.

šŸ›1141 Robert Fitzroy, Earl of Gloucester, arrests and imprisons King Stephen of England.

šŸ›8th April 1141 Empress Matilda is elected queen of England at Winchester.

šŸ›25th Dec 1141 Stephen's 2nd Coronation

šŸ›1151 Henry of Anjou inherits his father’s lands in Normandy, Anjou, Touraine and Maine.

šŸ›1152 Henry of Anjou marries Eleanor of Aquitaine.

āš–ļø1153 Treaty of Wallingford recognises Henry as Stephen's heir.

Plantagenet Period

Plantagenet period

1154 - 1485

1154 - 1216

1216 - 1399

1399 - 1461

1461 - 1485

šŸ‘‘ Monarchs

War & Conflict

Political & Social Events

Major Personalities & Works

son of

Matilda

son of

Henry II

son of

Henry II

son of

John

son of

Henry III

son of

Edward I

son of

Edward II

grandson of

Edward III

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son of 

Edward the 

Black Prince

grandson of

Edward III

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son of 

John of Gaunt

son of

Henry IV

son of

Henry V

great great grandson of

Edward III

son of

Edward IV

brother of

Edward IV

Henry II

1154 - 1189

Henry Curtmantle

šŸ›”ļø 1154-1214 Start of Angevin Empire

šŸ›”1169-71 Conquest of Ireland

šŸ›”ļø 1173-4 Revolt of Henry II's sons: Henry the Young King; Richard, Duke of Aquitaine; Geoffrey, Duke of Brittany; William of Scotland

šŸ›”1188-9 Richard I, future King John and Philip II of France rebel against Henry II 

šŸ›1157 Henry II regains Northumbria

ā›Ŗļø 1162-70 Thomas Beckett is archbishop of Canterbury, spends 1164-70 in exile in France after being found guilty of being in contempt of royal authority.

āš–ļø 1164 Constitutions of Clarendon establishes primacy of common law

āš–ļø 1166 Assize of Clarendon developed trial by jury.

šŸ›1170-4 Eleanor separates from Henry II; holds court at Poitiers, inspires development of courtly love poetry.

āš–ļø1174 Treaty of Falaise Henry II recognised as overlord of Scotland; 1175 Ireland followed.

ā›Ŗļø 1773 Thomas Beckett is canonised to sainthood.

šŸ›1174-89 Eleanor is imprisoned by Henry II for supporting her sons' revolts.

šŸ‘‘ Eleanor of Aquitaine Wife of Henry II

šŸ‘‘ Henry the Young King titular king 1170-83, crowned during father's reign but didn't gain autonomous power.

ā˜ ļø 1183 Henry the Young King dies of dysentery

ā˜ ļø1186 Geoffrey, Count of Brittany, son of Henry II dies at tournament

šŸ‘‘ Richard, Duke of Aquitaine and Count of Poitou, son of Henry II

šŸ‘¤1162 Thomas Beckett becomes Archbishop of Cantebury.

ā˜ ļø 1170 Thomas Beckett killed at Canterbury by 4 knights.

šŸ‘¤Richard de Clare (Strongbow) led first conquest of Ireland.

šŸ‘‘ William the Lion of Scotland invades northern England.

šŸ‘¤ William Marshal

Richard I

1189 - 1199

Richard the Lionheart

šŸ›” 1189-1192 Third Crusade, Jerusalem was not captured

āš”ļø 1191 Siege of Acre

šŸ›”1194-99 French war against Philip I.

āš–ļø 1899 Quitclaim of Canterbury returns Scotland to William I

šŸ›” 1193-1194 Richard imprisoned in Germany.

šŸ‘‘ Saladin first sultan of Egypt and Syria and founder of the Ayyubid dynasty.

ā˜ ļø 1199 Richard I, battle at Chalus in France

John

1199-1216

John Lackland

šŸ›”ļø1202-04 French invasion of Normandy Normandy is lost to Philippe II

šŸ›”ļø1211 Welsh Uprising

šŸ›”ļø1213-4 Anglo-French War

āš”ļø 1214 Battle of Bouvines Most of English territory in France is lost

šŸ›”ļø 1154-1214 End of Angevin Empire

šŸ›”ļø1215-17 First Barons' War

ā›Ŗļø 1209-13 Pope Innocent III excommunicated king John.

šŸ‘‘ Llyweln the Great of Wales ā˜ ļø1240.

šŸ‘‘ Philippe II Augustus of France takes Normandy.

šŸ“– 1215 Magna Carta limited the king's power.

Henry III

1216 - 1272

Henry of Winchester

šŸ›”ļø1215-17 First Barons' War

šŸ›”ļø1242-43 Saintonge War

šŸ›”ļø1264-67 Second Barons' War

āš”ļø1264 Battle of Lewes Henry III is captured.

āš”ļø1265 Battle of Evesham 

šŸ›1236 creation of 'Parliament

āš–ļø 1237 Treaty of York Alexander II renounces Scottish claims to border counties.

āš–ļø1258 Provisions of Oxford

āš–ļø1259 Provisions of Westminster

āš–ļø1266 Treaty of Perth with Norway secures Western Isles for Scotland.

āš–ļø1267 Treaty of Montgomery recognises Llywelyn ap Gruffudd as Price of Wales.

šŸ“– 1217 Revised Magna Carta (signed 1225)

šŸ‘¤ Simon de Montfort led to Barons' war. ā˜ ļø 1265.

šŸ‘‘ Louis of France

šŸ‘¤Hubert de Burgh justiciar. 1232 - dismissed by Henry III. 

šŸ‘‘Alexander II of Scotland

Edward I

1272 - 1307

Edward Longshanks

šŸ›”1277 - 1284 Conquest of Wales

šŸ›”1284 Conquest of Wales

šŸ›”ļø1294 - 1303 Anglo-French War

šŸ›”1296 - 1328 First War of Scottish Independence 

āš”ļø 1297 Battle of Stirling Bridge English defeated by William Wallace. 

āš”ļø 1298 Falkirk Wallace defeated.

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āš–ļø 1284 Statute of Wales

ā›Ŗļø  Edict of Expulsion

šŸ›1291 Edward I asserts right to decide Scottish succession

šŸ› 1295 England's First Parliament

     Included nobles, bishops and two representatives from each county.

šŸ‘‘ 1282-3 Llywelyn ap Gruffudd of Wales defeated.

ā˜ ļø Margaret, Maid of Norway, leaves Scottish succession open. 

šŸ‘¤William Wallace, leader of the Scots. ā˜ ļø 1305 betrayed, hanged, drawn and quartered in London. 

šŸ‘‘Robert the Bruce rebels against Edward I in 1306.

šŸ‘¤Edward of Caernarvon, son of Edward I, made Prince of Wales, a title which is still used to this day.

Edward II

1307 - 1327

Edward of Caernarfon

āš”ļø 1314 Bannockburn Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeated England.

šŸ›”1315-18 Edward Bruce invades Ireland.

šŸ›”1321-22 Civil War Edward II deposed.

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āš–ļø 1320 Declaration of Arbroath statement of Scottish Independence. 

šŸ‘‘ Robert the Bruce King of Scotland

šŸ‘‘ Edward Bruce, brother of Robert, invades Ireland and is crowned High King of Ireland in 1316.

Edward III

1327 - 1377

šŸ›”1296 - 1328 End of First War of Scottish Independence 

šŸ›”1332 - 1357 Second War of Scottish Independence 

āš”ļø1333 Halidon Hill English defeat Scotland

šŸ›”1337 - 1453 Start of Hundred Years' War

āš”ļø 1340 Sluys English defeat French

āš”ļø 1346 Crécy English defeat French

āš”ļø 1346 Neville's Cross English defeat Scots

āš”ļø 1356 Poitiers English defeat French

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āš–ļø 1362 Parliament must approve all taxation.

🦠 1348 - 1350 Black Death plague

      Killed as many as 50% of the population.

      Plague returned: 1361-64, 1368, 1371, 1373-75

āš–ļø 1360 Peace of Brétigny between England and France.

āš–ļø 1366 Statues of Kilkenny forbid English settlers to intermarry with native Irish.

ā˜ ļø 1328 Edward III claims French throne after death of Charles VI of France.

šŸ‘¤ Edward the Black Prince, son of Edward III ā˜ ļø 1376

šŸ‘¤ John of Gaunt, son of Edward III 

šŸ‘¤John Wycliffe Theologian who questioned the supreme authority of the Pope.

Richard II

1377 - 1399

šŸ›” 1381 Peasants' Revolt

šŸ›”1387 Lords Appellant Revolt

šŸ›”1394-5 Expedition to Ireland

āš–ļø 1388 Merciless Parliament indicts Richard II's allies. 

āš–ļø 1389 Richard II declares himself of age; Lord Appellant are dismissed.

šŸ›1399 Richard II deposed.

šŸ‘¤ 1343 - 1400 Geoffrey Chaucer famous author e.g. Canterbury Tales

šŸ‘¤ Lords Appellant: Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, son of Edward III (king's uncle); 

Richard FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel and of Surrey; and

Thomas de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick. These were later joined by

Henry Bolingbroke, Earl of Derby (future šŸ‘‘) and

Thomas de Mowbray, Earl of Nottingham.

Henry IV

1399 - 1413

Henry Bolingbroke

šŸ›” 1400 Revolt of Owain Glyn Dwr

šŸ›”1402-8 Percy Rebellion

āš”ļø 1403 Shrewsbury

āš”ļø 1408 Bramham Moor

ā˜ ļø 1403 Henry Percy ('Hotspur') at Shrewbury.

Henry V

1413 - 1422

āš”ļø 1415 Agincourt English defeated the French.

āš–ļø 1420 Treaty of Troyes between England and France.

Henry VI

1422 - 1461

āš”ļø 1449-50 England lose Normandy to France

šŸ›”1450 Rebellion of John Cade

āš”ļø 1453 England lose Gascony to France

šŸ›” 1337 - 1453 End of Hundred Years' War

šŸ›”1455 - 1487 Start of War of the Roses

āš”ļø1455 Battle of St. Albans 

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šŸ› 1436 Henry VI attains age of maturity.

šŸ‘¤ Joan of Arc Led the French against the English

      ā˜ ļø 1431 Burnt at the stake

šŸ“– The Book of Margery Kempe 

šŸ“– 1439 Gutenberg Bible created with first printing press.

Edward IV

1461 - 1470

āš”ļø1461  Towton Edward VI overthrows Henry VI

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āš”ļø Barnet Henry VI defeated

Edward IV

1471 - 1483

Edward V

1483

Richard III

1483 - 1485

āš”ļø 1485 Bosworth Field Henry VII defeats Richard III

Henry VI

1470 - 1471

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1485 - 1603

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Elizabeth I

1558 - 1603

The Virgin Queen

šŸ›”ļø1494-1559 End of Italian Wars

šŸ›”1569 Rising of the North

šŸ›”ļø1569-83 Desmond Wars

šŸ›”ļø1585-1604 Start of Anglo-Spanish War

šŸ›”1585-1648 Start of Eighty Years' War

šŸ›”1588 Spanish Armada Philip II of Spain attempts to overthrow Elizabeth with a fleet of 130 ships. Fewer than one third returned.

āš”ļø 1588 Gravelines

šŸ›”1589 English Armada

šŸ›”1589 Support given to Henri IV in French Wars of Religion (1562-1598).

šŸ›”1601 Essex's Rebellion

šŸ›”1594-1603 Nine Years' War (Tyrone's Rebellion) 

āš–ļø1959 Act of Uniformity

āš–ļø1563 39 Articles 

ā›Ŗļø1570 Pope Pius V declares Elizabeth's reign illegitimate

šŸ› 1585 Babington Plot against Elizabeth. Mary Queen of Scots is implicated. 

āš–ļø Nonsuch Treaty promises to help the Dutch Republic resist Spanish occupation.  

🦠 1597/8 Harvest failures

šŸ’°1600 Formation of the East India Company

āš–ļø1601 Poor Relief Schemes

šŸ‘¤ Sir Francis Drake, circumnavigated the world

šŸ‘¤ Sir Walter Raleigh, explorer

šŸ“– William Shakespeare, wrote at least 37 plays, 4 poems and 154 sonnets.

šŸ“– Edmund Spencer, The Faerie Queene

šŸ‘¤ William Cecil, queen's chief advisor ā˜ ļø 1598

šŸ‘¤Robert Cecil, replaced his father

šŸ‘‘ Mary Queen of Scots ā˜ ļø 1587

šŸ‘¤ Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, led failing expedition to Netherlands 

šŸ‘¤Hugh Roe O’Donnell led Irish in the Nine Years' War.

šŸ‘¤Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, led rebellion in 1601.

šŸ‘¤Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury

šŸ‘¤Lord Charles Howard, led English ships against the Armada

Henry VII

1485 - 1509

āš”ļø 1487 Stoke Field Yorkist Rebellion defeated.

šŸ›”1455 - 1487 End of War of the Roses.

šŸ›”ļø1497 Cornish Rebellion

šŸ›”ļø1494-1559 Start of Italian Wars

šŸ‘‘ 1486 Elizabeth of York marries Henry VII.

ā˜ ļø1502 Prince Author dies.

Henry VIII

1509 - 1547

šŸ›”ļø1513; 1544-51 Anglo-Scottish Wars

āš”ļø 1513 Flodden Catherine of Aragon defeats Scotland's James IV.

āš”ļø1542 Solway Moss James V is defeated and killed. Infant daughter Mary becomes queen.

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ā›Ŗļø 1521 Pope Leo X awards Henry VIII the title of Fidei Defensor (“Defender of the Faith”) for his writings against Martin Luther and Reformation.

⛪ 1534 Act of Supremacy Formation of the Church of England.

ā›Ŗļø1536 Dissolution of the monasteries begins

āš–ļø 1542 Witchcraft Act repealed 1547

ā›Ŗļø1545 Latin mass is replaced by mass in English

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šŸ‘¤Martin Luther 

šŸ‘¤ Thomas Wolsey

šŸ‘¤Thomas Cramner

šŸ‘¤ Thomas Moore

šŸ‘‘ 6 wives of Henry VIII: Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Catherine Parr.

šŸ“– Hans Holbein

šŸ“–1525 William Tyndale translates the New Testament into English ā˜ ļø 1536 executed.

Edward VI

1547 - 1553

šŸ›”ļø1549 Third Cornish Uprising, led by Robert Kett

šŸ›”ļø 1544-51 Anglo-Scottish Wars

šŸ“– 1549 Anglican Book of Common Prayer prepared by Thomas Cranmer.

šŸ‘¤ Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset

šŸ‘¤John Dudley, Earl of Warwick

Mary I

1553 - 1558

Bloody Mary

šŸ›” 1585 -1604 Start of Anglo-Spanish War 

āš”ļø 1558 Siege of Calais

šŸ‘‘1553 Lady Jane Grey is nominated as queen. Overthrown by Mary after 9 days.

šŸ‘‘ Philip II of Spain Husband of Mary I.

āš–ļø Act of Uniformity

ā˜ ļø Burnt almost 300 protestants at the stake, led by Reginald Pole, Archbishop of Cantebury

šŸ›Planation of Ireland began

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1603 - 1714

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šŸ›”1865 Monmouth Rebellion

James II

1685 - 1688

Last Catholic King

James I

1603 - 1625

šŸ›” 1585 -1604 End of Anglo-Spanish War 

šŸ›1603 Main Plot

šŸ› 1605 Gun Powder Plot Catholic group attempt to detonate gun powder under parliament and kill James I.

šŸ›”1609-13 First Anglo-Powhatan War

šŸ›”1622 Second Anglo-Powhatan War

šŸ› 1604 Hampton Court Conference

āš–ļø 1604 Witchcraft Act reinstated

āš–ļø 1606 Parliament proclaims Oath of Allegiance 

šŸ› 1607 Jamestown is established in Virginia

šŸ›1609 Plantation of Ulster

āš–ļø 1610 The Great Contract

ā›Ŗļø 1612 first Baptist Church

ā›Ŗļø 1618 Attempted integration of Scottish Kirk and Church of England 

šŸ› 1620 Puritan Pilgrims arrives at Massachusetts

šŸ‘¤Sir Walter Raleigh accused in Main Plot and imprisoned. Released in 1618 to find El Dorado ā˜ ļø 1618

šŸ‘¤ Robert Catesby & Guy Fawkes led Gun Powder Plot 

šŸ‘¤ Henry Hudson, 1610: explores the Hudson Strait.

šŸ“– 1611 King James Bible authorised

šŸ‘¤Robert Cecil, treasurer. 1610 asked for taxes to help the king (refused).

ā˜ ļø 1612 Prince Henry dies.

Charles I

1625 - 1649

āš–ļø1625 Parliament stops Tonnage and poundage

āš–ļø 1626 Forced Loan

āš–ļø1628 The Petition of Right

āš–ļø1629 Parliament dissolved. Start of personal rule.

āš–ļø1639 Pacification of Berwick

šŸ›1640 Short Parliament

āš–ļø1641 Triennial Act

šŸ› 1641 The Grand Remonstrance

šŸ› 1642 Charles arrests 5 MPs

šŸ›1642-60 Long Parliament

šŸ›1645 New Model Army created

āš–ļø 1648 Pride's Purge

šŸ‘¤George Villier, Duke of Buckingham 

šŸ‘¤Thomas Wentworth, Lord Deputy of Ireland

šŸ‘¤William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury

šŸ‘¤ Oliver Cromwell

šŸ‘¤ John Pym

šŸ‘¤Sir Thomas Fairfax

šŸ‘¤Prince Rupert of the Rhine

šŸ‘¤Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex

ā˜ ļø1649 Charles I executed by parliament

Interregnum

1649-1660

šŸ›”1649-53 Cromwell's conquest of Ireland

āš”ļø 1651 Worchester Charles II escapes. End of Civil War.

šŸ›”1652-4 First Anglo-Dutch War

šŸ›”1654-60 Anglo-Spanish War

ā›Ŗļø 1650 George Fox founds the Quakers

āš–ļø 1651 Navigation Act

šŸŽ­ 1652 Tea introduced in Britain. 

āš–ļø1653 Instrument of Government

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šŸ‘‘ Oliver Cromwell ā˜ ļø 1658

šŸ‘‘ Richard Cromwell

šŸ“– Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan 

Charles II

1660 - 1685

šŸ›”1662-8 English expedition to Portugal

šŸ›”1665-67 Second Anglo-Dutch War

šŸ›”1667-68 War of Devolution

šŸ›”1672-74 Third Anglo-Dutch War

šŸ›”1675-76 King Philip's War

šŸ›”1676 Virginia Rebellion

šŸ° 1660 General Post Office

āš–ļø1660 Declaration of Breda

ā›Ŗļø 1661  Corporation Act

ā›Ŗļø1662 The Act of Uniformity

šŸ”„ 1666 Great Fire of London

      Over 13,000 homes and 87 churches destroyed; 6 deaths

āš–ļø 1679 Habeas Corpus Act

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šŸ“– Diary of Samuel Pepys

šŸ“– John Milton, Paradise Lost

šŸ”¬Issac Newton discovers gravity

Mary II

1689 - 1694

šŸ›”1688-97 Nine Years' War

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āš–ļø 1689 The Toleration Act

šŸ“– 1690 John Locke, Two Treatises of Government

William III

1689 - 1702

William of Orange

šŸ›” 1688-97 King William's War (Second Indian War)

āš”ļø 1690 Boyne

āš–ļø1701 Act of Settlement

Anne

1702 -1714

šŸ›”1702 - 13 War of Spanish Succession England and        Netherlands fought. France prevented from ruling over Spain.

šŸ›”1702-13 Queen Anne's War

āš–ļø 1707 Act of Union United England and Scotland.

šŸ›”1625-30 Anglo-Spanish War

šŸ›”1627-29 Anglo-French War

šŸ›”1639-40 First & Second Bishops' War 

šŸ›”1639 Irish Rebellion

šŸ›”1642-48 Irish Confederates' War

šŸ›” 1642 - 1651 English Civil War 

1st (42-46) 2nd (1648) 3rd (50-51).

āš”ļø 1642 Edgehill 

šŸ›”1644 Third Anglo-Powhatan War

āš”ļø 1645 Naseby 

šŸ›”1585-1648 End of Eighty Years' War

āš”ļø 1648 Battle of Preston

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1714 - 1837

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William IV

1830-1837

George I

1702 - 1727

šŸ›”1715-16; 19 Jacobite Rebellions

šŸ›”1718-20 War of Quadruple Alliance

George II

1727 - 1760

šŸ›”1739-42 War of Jenkins' Ear

šŸ›”1742 - 1748 War of Austrian Succession

šŸ›”1745 - 1746 45 Rebellion

āš”ļø 1745 Clifton Moor Skirmish

āš”ļø 1746 Culloden

šŸ›” 1756 - 1763 Seven Years War 

George III

1760 - 1820

šŸ›”1763-6 Pontiac's Rebellion

šŸ›”1766-9 First Anglo-Mysore War

šŸ›”1775 - 1783 American War of Independence

šŸ›”1775-82 First Anglo-Maratha War

šŸ›”1780-4 Fourth Anglo-Dutch War

šŸ›”1780-4 Second Anglo-Mysore War

šŸ›”1789-92 Third Anglo-Mysore War

šŸ›”1788-1934 Austrian Frontiers Wars

šŸ›” 1793 - 1802 French Revolutionary Wars

šŸ›”1798 Irish Rebellion

šŸ›”1798-9 Fourth Anglo-Mysore War

šŸ›”1803-15 Napoleonic Wars

šŸ›”1803-4 First Kandian War

šŸ›”1803-5 Second Anglo-Maratha War

āš”ļø 1805 Trafalgar

āš”ļø 1806 Vellore Mutiny

šŸ›”1812-5 War of 1812

šŸ›”1814-6 Anglo-Nepalese War

āš”ļø 1815 Waterloo

šŸ›”1815 Second Kandian War

šŸ›”1817-18 Third Anglo-Maratha War

šŸ‘¤William Wilberforce

šŸ“– William Wordsworth

šŸ“– Jane Austen

šŸ‘¤ 1767 Samuel Wallis arrives in Tahiti

šŸ“– 1792 Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

George IV

1820 - 1830

šŸ›”1824-5 First Anglo-Burmese War

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šŸ”¬1769 James Watt patents the steam engine.

šŸ›ļø 1776 American Declaration of Independence

šŸ° 1776 Canal Mania

šŸ”¬1772 Joseph Priestley presents his discovery of oxygen, carbon monoxide, and nitrous oxide.

šŸ›ļø 1800 Act of Union Great Britain unites with the Kingdom of Ireland forming the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

šŸ”¬1803 Richard Trevithick invented the first steam locomotive.

šŸ”¬1803 John Dalton discovers atomic theory.

āš–ļø 1807 The Slave Trade Act

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ā›Ŗļø 1738 John Wesley founded the Methodist Church

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šŸ“– David Strauss, Das Leben Jesu

šŸ‘¤John Wesley

āš–ļø 1829 The Catholic Emancipation Act

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āš–ļø 1839 Factory Act

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Georgian Period

victorian period

1837 - 1901

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Victoria

1837 - 1901

šŸ›”1837-8 Upper & Lower Canada Rebellion

šŸ›”1839-40 Syrian War

šŸ›”1839-42 First Anglo-Afghan War

āš”ļø 1839 Battle of Ghazni

šŸ›”1839-42 First Opium War

šŸ›”1843 Gwalior Campaign

šŸ›”1848-9 First Anglo-Sikh War

šŸ›”1843-72 New Zealand Wars

šŸ›”1848-9 Second Anglo-Sikh War

šŸ›”1852-3 Second Anglo-Burmese War

šŸ›”1853-56 Crimean War

šŸ›”1856-57 Anglo-Persian War

šŸ›”1856-60 Second Opium War

šŸ›”1857 Indian Rebellion

šŸ›”1859 Pig War

šŸ›”1865 Anglo-Bhutanese War 

šŸ›”1868 Expedition to Abyssinia

šŸ›”1878-80 Anglo-Afghan War 

šŸ›”1879 Anglo-Zulu War 

šŸ›”1880-1 First Boer War

šŸ›”1880-1 Gun War

šŸ›”1881-99 Mahdist War 

šŸ›”1885 Third Anglo-Burmese War 

šŸ›”1888 Sikkim Expedition

šŸ›”1896 Anglo-Zanzibar War  

šŸ›”1897-8 Tirah Campaign

šŸ›”1899-1902 Second Boer War

šŸ›”1900 Boxer Rebellion

āš–ļø 1842 Mines Act

šŸŽ­ 1851 The Great Exhibition

šŸŽ­ 1853 First Public Aquarium

āš–ļø Education Act provides schooling for children aged 5-13 through school boards, who also paid for the poor.

ā›Ŗļø1865 William Booth formed the Salvation Army

šŸ”¬1879 Thomas Edison invents the light bulb.

šŸ° 1881 Natural History Museum

šŸŽ­ 1888 Creation of the Football League

šŸ° 1889 first central electrical power station is completed in Deptford.

šŸ”¬1892 Frederick Bremer made the first petrol car. 

šŸŽ­ 1896 First modern Olympic Games in Athens

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ā˜ ļø 1868 Last Public Hanging of Michael Barret at Newgate.

šŸ“– Charles Dickens

šŸ“– George Eliot

šŸ“–Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto

šŸ“–1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe, ā€‹Uncle Tom’s Cabin  

šŸ“– 1859 Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species

šŸ“–1887 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Study in Scarlet

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Victorian Period

Saxe-Coburg-Gotha / Winsor period

1901-Present

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Elizabeth II

1952 - Present

šŸ›”1952-60 Mau Mau Uprising

šŸ›”1955-9 Cyprus Emergency

šŸ›”1956 Suez Crisis

šŸ›”1962 Brunei Revolt

šŸ›”1962-75 Dhofar Rebellion

šŸ›”1963-6 Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation

šŸ›”1963-7 Aden Emergency

šŸ›”1969-98 Northern Ireland Troubles

šŸ›”1975-6 Cod War Confrontation

āš”ļø 1980 Iranian Embassy Siege

šŸ›”1982 Falklands War

šŸ›”ļø1990-91 Gulf War

šŸ›”1992-96 Bosnian War

āš”ļø1998 Operation Desert Fox

šŸ›”1999 Third Anglo-Afghan War

šŸ›”2000 Sierra Leone Civil War

šŸ›”2001-Ongoing War in Afghanistan

šŸ›”2003-11 Iraq War

šŸ›”2009-Ongoing Somali Civil War

šŸ›”2011 Libyan Civil War

šŸ›”2012-Ongoing Boko Haram insurgency

šŸ›”2013-Ongoing Northern Mali Conflict

šŸ›”2014-Ongoing War against ISIS

šŸ›”2018 Syrian Civil War

šŸ”¬1958 Ben Milstein performed first open heart surgery

šŸŽ­1960 First Paralympics

šŸ›1989 Fall of Berlin Wall

šŸŽ­ 1991 First Women's FIFA World Cup.

šŸ° 1994 Channel Tunnel

ā›Ŗļø 1994 The Church of England ordains women priests

šŸ“– 1958 JB Phillips, The New Testament in Modern English

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Edward VII

1901 - 1910

šŸ›”1901-2 Anglo-Aro War

šŸ›”1903-4 British Expedition to Tibet

šŸ”¬1902 Reginald A. Fessenden invents the radio.

George V

1910 - 1936

šŸ›”1914-1918 First World War

šŸ›”1916 Easter Rising

šŸ›”1918-22 Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War

šŸ›”1919 Third Anglo-Afghan War

šŸ›”1919-21 Anglo-Irish War

ā˜ ļø 1912 Sinking of the RMS Titanic

šŸ›ļø 1920 Ireland's Declaration of Independence

šŸ” 1928 Penicillin discovered by Alexander Flemming

šŸŽ­ 1930 First Football World Cup

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Edward VIII

1936

George VI

1936 - 1952

šŸ›”1939-1945 Second World War

šŸ›”1945-8 British-Zionist conflict in Palestine

šŸ›”1946-7 Greek Civil War

šŸ›”1946-90 Start of the Cold War

šŸ›”1948-60 Start of Malayan Emergency

šŸ›”1950-3 Korean War

šŸ“– George Orwell

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