Introduction
10,000 BC: Prehistoric England
3,000 BC: Stonehenge
AD 43: The Romans
AD 61: Boudicca
410: Legend of King Arthur
400s: Anglo-Saxons
597: The arrival of Christianity
793: Viking raids
899: Alfred the Great
937: Rex Angloram
1042: Edward the Confessor
1066: King Harold
1066: Battle of Hastings
1060s and 70s: Norman Conquest
1086: Domesday Book
1170: Murder of Thomas Becket
1204: Eleanor of Aquitaine
1215: King John and the Magna Carta
1200s: Robin Hood
1265: The first Parliament
1283: The Conquest of Wales
1337: The Hundred Years War
1348: Order of the Garter
1348: The Black Death
1381: The Peasants' Revolt
1387: The Canterbury Tales
1415: Agincourt
1459: The Wars of the Roses
1483: The Princes in the Tower
1485: The Battle of Bosworth Field
1509: Henry VIII
1534: Anne Boleyn
1534: The English Reformation
1547: Henry VIII's death
1553: Mary I and the Counter- Reformation
1558: Elizabeth I
1580: Sir Francis Drake
1587: Mary Queen of Scots
1588: The Spanish Armada
1590: Shakespeare
1603: King James VI and I
1605: The Gunpowder Plot
1629: Charles I and Parliament
1642: The English Civil War
1649: Regicide
1649: Cromwell's Commonwealth
1660| Restoration
1666: Great Fire of London
1687: Sir Isaac Newton
1688: The Glorious Revolution
1707: The Act of Union
1714: The House of Hanover


1721: Britain's first Prime Minister
1739: Highwaymen
1740: Rule, Britannia!
1745: Jacobite uprising
1755: Dr Johnson's Dictionary
1763: The Seven Years War
1700s: Food and Empire
1770: Captain Cook and Australia
1772: The Slave Trade
1775: Britain's first factories
1776: American Revolution
1776: Steam engine
1788: Mad King George
1791: Rights of Man
1805: The Battle of Trafalgar
1813: Jane Austen
1815: Duke of Wellington
1829: The Metropolitan Police Force
1830: The Railway Age
1833: Child labour
1833: Abolition of the Slave Trade
1837: Queen Victoria
1846: The workhouse
1851: Industrial cities
1851: The Great Exhibition
1854: Florence Nightingale
1859: On the Origin of Species
1859: Brunel
1859: Big Ben
1863: Association Football
1870: Charles Dickens
1888: Jack the Ripper
1899: The Boer War
1912: Titanic
1913: Emily Davison
1914: The First World War
1916: The First Day of the Somme
1918: Armistice Day
1922: The BBC
1926: General Strike
1936: Abdication
1940: Dunkirk
1940: The Battle of Britain
1941: The Home Front
1945: VE Day
1948: The NHS
1948: The Empire Windrush
1953: Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
1956: Suez Crisis
1966: World Cup win
1960s: Beatlemania
1979: Thatcher becomes Prime Minister
1989: Invention of the World Wide Web


1994: Opening of the Channel Tunnel
1997: Death of Princess Diana
1997: Harry Potter
2012: London Olympics
2016: Brexit
Conclusion
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