Year
Date
Event
1305
William Wallace
was executed by the English on a
charge of treason.
1314
Battle of Bannockburn
:
Scotland
won a decisive victory
over England.
1328
The
Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton
, under which
England recognised
Scottish
independence, was signed.
1348
The
Black Death
arrived in England.
1356
Battle of Poitiers
: First of the three major battles of
the
Hundred Years' War
took place near Poitiers, France.
1381
Peasants' Revolt
: Also called Wat Tyler's Rebellion or
the Great Rising, was a major uprising across large parts
of England led by
Wat Tyler
.
1392
The
Statute of Praemunire 1392
was issued.
15th century
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Year
Date
Event
1403 21 July
Battle of Shrewsbury
was a
battle
waged between an
army led by the
Lancastrian
King,
Henry IV
, and a rebel
army led by
Henry "Harry Hotspur"
Percy
from
Northumberland
.
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299
1415 25 October
Battle of Agincourt
was a major English victory in
the
Hundred Years' War
[a]
that occurred on
Saint Crispin's
Day
, near modern-day
Azincourt
, in northern France.
1485
Battle of Bosworth Field
(Battle of Bosworth): the last
significant battle of the
Wars of the Roses
, the
civil
war
between the
Houses of Lancaster
and
York
.
Richard
III
, the last
Plantagenet
king was killed, succeeded
by
Henry VII
.
1487
Battle of Stoke
was the decisive engagement in an
attempt by leading Yorkists to unseat
Henry VII of
England
in favour of the pretender
Lambert Simnel
.
16th century
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Year
Date
Event
1513
Battle of Flodden Field
: Invading England, King
James
IV of Scotland
and thousands of other
Scots
were killed
in a defeat at the hands of the English.
1521
Lutheran
writings begin to circulate in England.
1526
Lord Chancellor
Cardinal
Thomas Wolsey
ordered the
burning of
Lutheran
books.
1529
King
Henry VIII
severed ties with the
Catholic
Church
and declared himself head of the church in
England.
1534
Henry VIII
issued the
Act of Supremacy
.
Henry VIII
issued the
Treasons Act 1534
.
1535
Thomas More
and
Cardinal
John Fisher
were executed.
1536
William Tyndale
was executed in
Antwerp
.
Henry VIII
issued the
Dissolution of the Monasteries
.
1549
Prayer Book Rebellion
: A rebellion occurred in the
southwest.
1553
The Act Against Sectaries 1553 was issued.
1559
The
Act of Supremacy 1559
was issued.
1571
The
Treasons Act 1571
was issued.
The Act Prohibiting Papal Bulls from Rome 1571 was
issued.
1588 8 August
The
Spanish Armada
was destroyed.
1589
The
English Armada
(
or Counter Armada
) was defeated
by
Spain
.
1593
The Act Against Papists 1593 was issued.
17th century
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Year
Date
Event
1601
Catholic plot against the
Earl of Essex
Includes
some of the plotters from the
gunpowder plot
1603
King James VI
of Scotland ascends to the
English throne, becoming James I of England
and uniting the crowns - but not the
parliaments - of the two kingdoms
1605
5 November
Gunpowder Plot
: A plot in which
Guy
Fawkes
and other
Catholic
associates conspired
to blow up King
James VI and I
and
the
Parliament of England
was uncovered.
1618
Walter Raleigh
was executed.
1639
Bishops' Wars
: A war with
Scotland
began
which would last until 1640.
1640
Long Parliament
: The
Parliament
was
convened.
1642
The
English Civil War
began (see
timeline of
the English Civil War
).
1649
January
Trial and execution of Charles I
1649
Interregnum
began with the
First
Commonwealth
1653 - 1659
the Protectorate
under the Lord
Protector
Oliver Cromwell
and later (1658) his
son
Richard Cromwell
1659
Second Commonwealth
a period of great
political instability
1660
Restoration
of the monarchy: After a chaotic
short revival of the
Commonwealth of England
,
the monarchy was restored in May 1660, after
301
agreeing to the
Declaration of Breda
, largely
through the initiative of General
George
Monck
.
1666
2–5 September
Great Fire of London
: A major conflagration
that swept through the central parts of
London
.
1688
Glorious Revolution
:
[7]
Also called
the
Revolution of 1688
, was the overthrow
of
James II
by a union of
English
Parliamentarians
with
the
Dutchstadtholder
William III
of
Orange-
Nassau
(William of Orange).
18th century
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Year
Date
Event
1701
The
Act of Settlement 1701
, which required the English
monarch to be
Protestant
, was passed.
1702 8 March
William III
died and was succeeded by
Anne
.
1704
4 August
Gibraltar
was captured by a combined
Dutch
and
English fleet under the command of
Admiral of the
Fleet
George Rooke
.
13 August
Battle of Blenheim
: A combined English
and
Dutch
army under the command of
John Churchill,
1st Duke of Marlborough
defeated the
French
army
in
Bavaria
.
1706 22 July
The
Treaty of Union
was agreed between
representatives of the
Parliament of England
and
the
Parliament of Scotland
.
1707
The
Acts of Union 1707
were passed in the
Parliament
of England
and
Parliament of Scotland
, ratifying
the
Treaty of Union
.
1 May
The
Kingdom of Great Britain
came into being.
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1713 11 April
Signing of the
Treaty of Utrecht
ends the
War of the
Spanish Succession
.
1714 1 August
Queen Anne dies. Accession of George I, Elector of
Hanover.
1719
Battle of Glen Shiel
: A
Spanish
invasion force and
their
Jacobite
allies were defeated.
1744
An attempted
French
invasion of southern England was
stopped by storms.
1755
Samuel Johnson
published his
A Dictionary of the
English Language
.
1764
The Castle of Otranto
was written, which was the first
ever story classed as a
gothic
horror story.
1775 19 April
American War of Independence begins.
1779
The world's first iron bridge was built in
Shropshire
.
1783 4 September
American War of Independence ends with Treaty of
Paris.
19th century
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date
event
1805
Naval
Battle of
Trafalgar
21st
October.
1807
The
Slave Trade Act 1807
was
passed.
1815
Napoleonic Wars
: The
Napoleonic Wars ended.
1819
Peterloo Massacre
: A
massacre took place.
1825
The
Stockton and Darlington
railway
, the world's first public
passenger railway, opened.
1829
The
Catholic Relief Act
1829
was passed.
1832
The
Great Reform Act
was
passed, doubling the franchise.
1834
The
New Poor Law
was
passed.
1838
The
Slavery Abolition Act
1833
entered into force.
The
Chartism
movement
began.
1842
The first peacetime income tax
303
was introduced.
1846
The
Corn Laws
were repealed.
1848
The Communist Manifesto
was
published.
The
Chartism
movement
ended.
1859
On the Origin of Species
was
published
1863
The first underground train
went into operation in
London
.
1867
The
1867 Reform Act
doubled
the franchise.
1868
The last public execution was
carried out.
1870
The
Education Act 1870
was
passed, introducing universal
education.
Religious dissenters and
women were first allowed to
enter the Universities
of
University of
Oxford
and
Cambridge
.
1880
The
Elementary Education Act
1880
was passed, making
primary schooling compulsory
and extending it to girls.
1884
The
Reform Act 1885
was
passed.
1896
The
Daily Mail
was first
published.
20th century
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Year
Date
Event
1914 4 August
World War I
: Great Britain declares war on Germany.
1918 11 November
World War I
ended.
1936 5–31 October The
Jarrow March
protest.
1939 3 September
British entry into
World War II
.
1945 8 May
World War II
ended in Europe.
1948 5 July
The
National Health Service
came into being.
1952 6 February
Death of King
George VI
. Accession of
Queen
Elizabeth II
(beginning of second Elizabethan
era).
1965 24 January
Death of
Winston Churchill
.
1966 30 July
England wins the
FIFA World Cup
.
1973 1 January
Joined
European Union
.
1982 11 October
The
Mary Rose
was raised from the seabed.
1994 6 May
The
Channel Tunnel
opened.
21st century
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Year
Date
Event
2004
The
population of England
reaches fifty
one million.
2005
7 July
A series of co-ordinated
terrorist
bombings
strikes
London's
public
transport system during the morning rush
hour, killing more than fifty people and
injuring hundreds.
2012
25 Jul - 12 Aug
London hosts the
Olympic Games
for the
third time.
2015
9 September
Queen Elizabeth II
becomes longest-
reigning UK monarch.
2016
23 June
The United Kingdom votes to leave the
EU.
2016 13
July.
Theresa May
becomes
second
female
Prime
Minister.
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