History of England/Timelines
(Sources: 1700-1899 Norman Davies: The Isles, A History", Macmillan 1999 Appendix 42 page 977
Key Dates of Parliament House of Commons 2008[[1]]
Template:TOC-right 1066 Battle of Hastings Norman Conquest
1215 Magna Carta
1295 "Model Parliament"
Fifteenth century
1405 http://www.parliament.uk/about/history/keydates_1215_1900.cfm House of Commons gains power over taxation.
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" and Bill of Rights Established the constitutional monarchy and limited the power of the sovereign over Parliament.
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).
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.
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