History of England/Timelines
(Sources: 1700-1899 Norman Davies: The Isles, A History", Macmillan 1999 Appendix 42 page 977 )
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1066 Battle of Hastings Norman Conquest
1215 Magna Carta
Fifteenth 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)
Sixteenth century
1509 Henry VIII (1509-47)
1547 Edward VI (1547-53)
1553 Mary I (1553-58)
1558 Elizabeth I (1559-1603)
1559 The Armada
Seventeenth century
1603 James I (1603-25).
1625 Charles I (1625-49)
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"
1689 William and Mary.
1694 The Bank of England
Eighteenth century
1707 Act of Union - with Scotland.
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.
Nineteenth 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).
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.
Twentieth 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
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.
1975 Britain joins the European Common Market.
1979-1990 Thatcher's Conservative Governments.
1982 Falklands war.
1990 Major's Conservative Government