History of England/Timelines

(Sources: 1700-1899 Norman Davies: The Isles, A History", Appendix 42, Macmillan 1999.
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0 to 500 BCE

Celtic immigration

0 to 400AD

Roman occupation

401 to 800

Saxon Britain

801 to 1000

Danish invasions

11th century

Norman Conquest

Feudal system.

Domesday Book (1086)

12th century

Norman invasion of Ireland

13th century

Magna Carta(1215) - the founding principles of the British constitution.

Model Parliament" (1295) - summoned by Edward I and generally regarded as the first representative assembly.

15th century

1413    Henry V (1413-22)

1415    Agincourt

1422    Henry VI (1422-61)

1461    Edward IV (1461-83)

1483    Richard III (1483-85)

1485    Henry VII (1485-1509)

16th century

1509    Henry VIII (1509-47)

1547     Edward VI (1547-53)

1553     Mary I (1553-58)

1558    Elizabeth I (1559-1603)

1559    The Armada

17th century

1603    James I (1603-25).

1625    Charles I (1625-49)

1642     Charles I enters the Commons to arrest dissidents and the Speaker replies:

"May it please Your Majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the House is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here, and I humbly beg Your Majesty's pardon that I cannot give any other answer than this to what Your Majesty is pleased to demand of me".

1643-46 Civil War.

1660    Restoration. Charles II (1660-85)

1673    Test Act. Catholics excluded from office.

1685    James II (1685-88)
      Monmouth Rebellion.

1688    "The Glorious Revolution" and Bill of Rights [2] - limited the power of the king over Parliament.

1689    William and Mary.

1694    The Bank of England

18th century

1707    Act of Union - with Scotland [3].

1713    Treaty of Utrecht.

1714     Hanoverian succession.
              George I (1714-27)

1727    Geoge II (1727-1760)

1715    First Jacobite Rising

1739-48    War of Jenkins Ear - with Spain.

1744-8 War of the Austrian Succession.

1745    Second Jacobite Rising - "the '45"

1746    Battle of Culloden.

1756-63 Seven Years War - acquisition of India and Canada.

1760    George III (1760-1820).

1775-81 War of American Independence - the creation of the United States of America.

1787     Kingdom of Ireland granted autonomy.

1789-1815 French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars.

19th century

1801    Act of Union - with Ireland.

1805    Battle of Trafalgar.

1815    Battle of Waterloo.

1820    George IV (1820-30).

1830    William IV (1830-37).

1832     Reform Act Raised the proportion of adult English males entitled to vote to 20 per cent.

1837     Queen Victoria (1837-1901)/

1845-50 Irish Famine.

1846    Repeal of Corn Laws.

1833-36 Crimean War.

1857-58 Indian Mutiny.

1874    Disraeli's First Conservative Government (1874-80).

1880    Gladstone's Liberal Government.

1898    Battle of Omdurman

1899-1902 Boer War.

20th century

1902-05 Balfour's Conservative Government.

1902    Edward VII (1902-10).

1905-08 Campbell-Bannerman's Liberal Government.

1908-1915 Asquith's Liberal Government (Lloyd George Chancellor of the Exchequer)

1911    George V (1911-36).
           Lloyd George's National Insurance Bill.

1914-18     First World War.

1915-16 Asquith's Coalition Government.

The inter-war years

1918     Representation of the People Act - gave the vote to men over 21 and women over 30 - increasing the electorate from 8 million to 21 million.

1919    Treaty of Versailles.

1919-23 Lloyd George's Coalition Governments.

1920    Ireland gets Home Rule.

1922-23 Bonar Law's Conservative Government.

1923-24 Baldwin's First Conservative Government

1924     Macdonald's First Labour Government.

1924-29 Baldwin's Second Conservative Government.

1926    General Strike.
           Baird's television system.

1928    Fleming discovers penicillin

1929-31 Macdonald's Second Labour Government.

1931    Britain leaves the gold standard.

1931-35 Macdonald's National Government.

1935-37 Baldwin's National Government.

1936    Abdication of Edward VII.

1937    George VI (1937-52}

1937-40 Chamberlain's Conservative Government.

1938    Munich Pact with Germany.

1939-45    Second World War

1940-45 Churchill's Wartime Coalition Government.

Post-war Britain

1945    Churchill's First Conservative Government.

1945-51 Atlee's Labour Government

1948     National Health Service.

1951-55 Churchill's Second Conservative Government.

1953    Elizabeth II.
       Crick and Watson establish the structure of DNA.

1955-57 Eden's Conservative Government.

1956    Suez war.

1957-63 MacMillan Prime Minister of Conservative Government.

1963-70 Home Prime Minister of Conservative Government.

1970     Heath Prime Minister of Conservative Government.

1973    Britain joins the European Community. European Communities Act[4] makes EC law enforceable in the UK.

1979-1990 Thatcher's Conservative Governments.

1986    Single European Act - introduced Qualified Majority Voting to most European Union decisions [5].

1982    Falklands war.

1990    Major's Conservative Government