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(Sources (in addition to those shown): 1700-1899 Norman Davies: ''The Isles, A History", Appendix 42, Macmillan 1999. <br> ''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 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) | |||
1549 Cranmer's English Prayer Book. | |||
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)<br> Monmouth Rebellion. | |||
1688 '''"The Glorious Revolution" and Bill of Rights '''[http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/g04.pdf] - 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 [http://www.parliament.uk/actofunion/]. | |||
1713 Treaty of Utrecht. | |||
1714 Hanoverian succession.<br> 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).<br> Lloyd George's National Insurance Bill. | |||
1914-18 '''First World War.''' | |||
1915-16 Asquith's Coalition Government. | |||
1916 Easter Rising | |||
===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.<br> 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.<br> Crick and Watson establish the structure of DNA. | |||
1955-57 Eden's Conservative Government. | |||
1956 Suez war. | |||
1957-63 MacMillan's Conservative Government. | |||
1963-70 Home's Conservative Government. | |||
1970 -79 Heath's Conservative Government. | |||
1973 '''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 Single European Act - introduced '''Qualified Majority Voting''' to most European Union decisions [http://www.eurotreaties.com/eurotexts.html]. | |||
1982 Falklands war. | |||
1990 Major's Conservative Government | |||
==21st century== |
Revision as of 09:22, 21 March 2009
(Sources (in addition to those shown): 1700-1899 Norman Davies: The Isles, A History", Appendix 42, Macmillan 1999.
Key Dates of Parliament, House of Commons, 2008.[[1]] Chris Scarre (ed) The Human Past, Thames and Hudson, 2005)
Prehistory
- Canyon Cave Man [c 8980 BCE]
- Cheddar Man [2][3] [c 7,000 BCE]
- The Sleeve (La Manche) The English Channel[4] separates Britain from the European mainland [c 6000 to 4000 BCE].
- Farmers in Britain and Ireland [from c 4000 BCE]
- The Beaker people [5] [c 2500 to 1600].
- Megalith builders [6]
- - Stonehenge[7].[c 3000 to 1500 BCE]
600 BCE to 48 AD
- Celtic immigration[8]
- 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[9]
- 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[10] [397].
- Saint Columba lands on Iona and founds a monastery [563]
- Saint Augustine [11](597-604)
- Synod of Whitby (664)[12] - agreement between Saxon and Roman churchmen.
- Adam Bede's [13]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)[14]
- Rory O'Connor, High King of Ireland [1166-1175]
12th century
- Norman invasion of Ireland [15]
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.
14th century
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)
1549 Cranmer's English Prayer Book.
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 [16] - 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 [17].
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.
1916 Easter Rising
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's Conservative Government.
1963-70 Home's Conservative Government.
1970 -79 Heath's Conservative Government.
1973 Britain joins the European Community. European Communities Act[18] 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 [19].
1982 Falklands war.
1990 Major's Conservative Government