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(Sources (in addition to those shown): 1700-1899 Norman Davies: ''The Isles, A History",  Appendix 42, Macmillan 1999. <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ''Key Dates of Parliament'', House of Commons, 2008.[[http://www.parliament.uk/about/history/keydates_1215_1900.cfm]] Chris Scarre (ed) ''The Human Past'', Thames and Hudson, 2005)
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==Prehistory==
: Canyon Cave Man [c 8980 BCE]
: Cheddar Man [http://www.trussel.com/prehist/news11.htm][http://piclib.nhm.ac.uk/piclib/www/image.php?img=57737&frm=ser&search=man] [c 7,000 BCE]
: '''The Sleeve''' (La Manche) The English Channel[http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/English_Channel#encyclopedia] separates Britain from the European mainland [c 6000 to 4000 BCE].
: Farmers in Britain and Ireland [from c 4000 BCE]
:  The Beaker people [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22098] [c 2500 to 1600].
:  Megalith builders [http://www.megalithic.co.uk/topics.php?countries=1]
:: - Stonehenge[http://www.stonehenge-avebury.net/].[c 3000 to 1500 BCE]
==600 BCE to 48 AD==
:'''Celtic immigration'''[http://www.britainexpress.com/History/Celtic_Britain.htm]
: Goidals reach Ireland and Brythons reach Britain
==49 to 410AD ==
:'''Roman occupation''' 49 - 410 AD
: Claudius begins the conquest [49]
: Suetonius defeats Boadicea
: Agricola [78]
: Hadrian's wall [122]
: Christianity reaches Britain [200+]
:: St Alban's martrydom[http://www.stalbanscathedral.org.uk/story-of-alban.htm]
: Septimus Severus' campaign  [208-211}
: Edict of Caracalla - all free men eligible for Roman citizenship [212]
: Constantius' campaign [306]
: Edict of Milan - the tolerance of Christianity [313]
: Theodosius' campaign against Picts and Scots {367]
: Withdrawal of the legions [401]
: The end of Britain's allegiance to Rome [410]
==401 to 800 ==
:'''Celtic Ireland'''
:Saint Patrick reaches Éire [432]
:'''Saxon Britain'''
: Saint Ninian[http://www.whithorn.com/saint-ninian.htm] [397].
: Saint Columba lands on Iona and founds a monastery [563]
: Saint Augustine [http://saints.sqpn.com/sainta14.htm](597-604)
: Synod of Whitby (664)[http://knol.google.com/k/julian-l-freeman/the-synod-of-whitby-ad-664/vhr71n1u7gm1/8#] - agreement between Saxon and Roman churchmen.
: Adam Bede's [http://csis.pace.edu/grendel/projs991b/bede.html]''History of the English Church and People''(731).
==801 to 1066==
:'''Danish invasions'''
: Viking settlements at Dublin, Waterford and Limerick [914-920]
: Alfred the Great, King of Wessex (871-899)
: Brian Boru King of Munster [946-1014]
::(King of Ireland from 1002)
==11th century==
:'''Norman Conquest'''
::Feudal system.
::Domesday Book (1086)[http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/book.html]
::Rory O'Connor, High King of Ireland [1166-1175]
==12th century==
==12th century==
:Norman invasion of Ireland [http://britannia.com/history/docs/giraldus.html]
:Norman invasion of Ireland [http://britannia.com/history/docs/giraldus.html]
==13th century==
:'''Magna Carta'''(1215) - the founding principles of the British constitution.<br>
: Model Parliament" (1295)  - summoned by Edward I and generally regarded as the first representative assembly.
==14th century==
==15th century==
1413 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Henry V (1413-22)
1415 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Agincourt
1422 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Henry VI (1422-61)
1461 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Edward IV (1461-83)
1483 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Richard III (1483-85)
1485 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Henry VII (1485-1509)
==16th century==
1509 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Henry VIII (1509-47)
1547 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Edward VI (1547-53)
1549 &nbsp; Cranmer's English Prayer Book.
1553 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mary I (1553-58)
1558 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Elizabeth I (1559-1603)
1559 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Armada
==17th century==
1603 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;James I (1603-25).
1625 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Charles I (1625-49)
1642 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Restoration. Charles II (1660-85)
1673 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Test Act. Catholics excluded from office.
1685  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;James II (1685-88)<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Monmouth Rebellion.
1688 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'''"The Glorious Revolution" and Bill of Rights '''[http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/g04.pdf] - limited the power of the king over Parliament.
1689  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;William and Mary.
1694  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Bank of England
==18th century==
1707 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'''Act of Union''' - with Scotland [http://www.parliament.uk/actofunion/].
1713 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Treaty of Utrecht.
1714  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Hanoverian succession.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;George I (1714-27)
1727 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Geoge II (1727-1760)
1715 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First Jacobite Rising
1739-48 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;War of Jenkins Ear - with Spain.
1744-8 War of the Austrian Succession.
1745 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Second Jacobite Rising - "the '45"
1746 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Battle of Culloden.
1756-63 Seven Years War - acquisition of India and Canada.
1760 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;George III (1760-1820).
1775-81 '''War of American Independence''' - the creation of the United States of America.
1787 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Kingdom of Ireland granted autonomy.
1789-1815 French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars.
==19th century==
1801 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'''Act of Union''' - with Ireland.
1805 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Battle of Trafalgar.
1815 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Battle of Waterloo.
1820 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;George IV (1820-30).
1830 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;William IV (1830-37).
1832 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; '''Reform Act''' Raised the  proportion of adult English males entitled to vote to 20 per cent.
1837 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;  Queen Victoria (1837-1901)/
1845-50 Irish Famine.
1846 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Repeal of Corn Laws.
1833-36 Crimean War.
1857-58 Indian Mutiny.
1874 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Disraeli's First Conservative Government (1874-80).
1880 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Gladstone's Liberal Government.
1898 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Battle of Omdurman
1899-1902 Boer War.
==20th century==
1902-05 Balfour's Conservative Government.
1902 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Edward VII (1902-10).
1905-08  Campbell-Bannerman's Liberal Government.
1908-1915 Asquith's Liberal Government (Lloyd George Chancellor of the Exchequer)
1911  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;George V (1911-36).<br>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Lloyd George's National Insurance Bill.
1914-18 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; '''First World War.'''
1915-16 Asquith's Coalition Government.
1916 Easter Rising
===The inter-war years===
1918 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Treaty of Versailles.
1919-23 Lloyd George's Coalition Governments.
1920 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'''Ireland gets Home Rule'''.
1922-23 Bonar Law's Conservative Government.
1923-24 Baldwin's First Conservative Government
1924 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Macdonald's First Labour Government.
1924-29 Baldwin's Second Conservative Government.
1926 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;General Strike.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Baird's television system.
1928  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Fleming discovers penicillin
1929-31 Macdonald's Second Labour Government.
1931 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Britain leaves the gold standard.
1931-35 Macdonald's National Government.
1935-37 Baldwin's National Government.
1936 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Abdication of Edward VII.
1937 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;George VI (1937-52}
1937-40 Chamberlain's Conservative Government.
1938 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Munich Pact with Germany.
1939-45 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'''Second World War'''
1940-45 Churchill's Wartime Coalition Government.
===Post-war Britain===
1945 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Churchill's  First Conservative Government.
1945-51  Atlee's Labour Government
1948 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Health Service.
1951-55 Churchill's Second Conservative Government.
1953 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Elizabeth II.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Crick and Watson establish the structure of DNA.
1955-57 Eden's Conservative Government.
1956 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Suez war.
1957-63 MacMillan's  Conservative Government.
1963-70  Home's Conservative Government.
1970 -79 Heath's  Conservative Government.
1973 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'''Britain joins the European Community'''. European Communities Act[http://www.opsi.gov.uk/Acts/acts1972/ukpga_19720068_en_1] makes '''EC law enforceable in the UK'''.
1979-1990 Thatcher's Conservative Governments.
1986  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Single European Act - introduced '''Qualified Majority Voting''' to most European Union decisions [http://www.eurotreaties.com/eurotexts.html].
1982  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Falklands war.
1990  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Major's Conservative Government
==21st century==

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