1. EVENTS IN 1ST CENTURY
1.1. 43BC - BRITAIN EMPEROR CLAUDIUS MAKES BRITAIN A PART OF ROMAN EMPIRE
2. EVENTS IN 5TH CENTURY
2.1. 401 - ROMANS BEGAN THEIR WITHDRAWAL FROM BRITAIN
2.2. 410 - THE ANGLES BEGIN THEIR INVASION OF ENGLAND AND ESTABLISH TRIBAL KINGDOMS ON THE EAST COAST.
3. EVENTS IN 8TH CENTURY
3.1. 757 - OFFA BECOMES KING OF MERCIA.
3.1.1. 782-785 - OFFA BUILDS OFFA’S DYKE TO KEEP OUT THE WELSH.
3.2. 787 - FIRST RECORDED RAID ON ENGLAND BY THE VIKINGS
3.2.1. VIKINGS SACK THE HOLY ISLAND OF LINDISFARNE.
4. EVENTS IN 11TH CENTURY
4.1. 1066 - ON 25TH SEPTEMBER AT THE BATTLE OF STAMFORD BRIDGE NEAR YORK THE KING HAROLD GODWINSON DEFEATS AN INVADING ARMY LED BY HARALD HARDRADA, KING OF NORWAY.
4.1.1. 3 DAYS LATER, WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR LANDS HIS NORMAN INVASION FLEET ON ENGLAND’S SOUTH COAST
4.1.2. NORMAN INVASION OF ENGLAND FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF KING HAROLD II AT THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS
4.2. 1066-1087 - REIGN OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR, AKA WILLIAM I AND WILLIAM THE BASTARD
4.2.1. 1086 - TAXES ARE RAISED TO PAY FOR WILLIAMS ARMY
5. EVENTS IN 13TH CENTURY
5.1. 1272-1307 - REIGN OF EDWARD I
5.1.1. 1276-1301 - EDWARD I ACHIEVED THE CONQUEST OF WALES THROUGH THREE MAJOR CAMPAIGNS AND ON A SCALE THAT HE KNEW THAT THE WELSH COULD NOT HOPE TO MATCH.
5.2. 1341 - THE BATTLE OF BANNOCKBURN, DECISIVE VICTORY FOR THE SCOTS LED BY ROBERT THE BRUCE
6. EVENTS IN 15TH CENTURY
6.1. 1413-1422 - REIGN OF HENRY V.
6.1.1. PLEASED HIS NOBLES BY RENEWING THE WAR WITH FRANCE IN 1415
6.1.2. ENGLISH DEFEAT FRENCH AT BATTLE OF AGINCOURT, WITH MORE THAN 6,000 FRENCHMEN KILLED
6.2. 1422-1461 - REIGN OF HENRY VI.
6.2.1. THE HOUSE OF YORK CHALLENGED HENRY VI’S RIGHT TO THE THRONE AND ENGLAND WAS PLUNGED INTO CIVIL WAR.
6.2.2. WARS OF THE ROSES BETWEEN HENRY VI (LANCASTER) AND THE DUKES OF YORK
6.3. 1485 - INVASION OF HENRY TUDOR AND THE BATTLE OF BOSWORTH FIELD
6.4. END OF THE WARS OD THE ROSES
7. EVENTS IN 18TH CENTURY
7.1. 1702-1714 - REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE
7.1.1. DURING HER REIGN BRITAIN BECAME A MAJOR MILITARY POWER AND THE FOUNDATIONS WERE LAID FOR THE 18TH CENTURY'S GOLDEN AGE.
7.2. 1707 - UNION OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND
7.3. 1760-1820 - REIGN OF GEORGE III
7.3.1. DURING HIS REIGN BRITAIN LOST ITS AMERIICAN COLONIES BUT EMERGED AS A LEADING WORLD POWER
7.3.1.1. 1776 - AMERICAN DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE FROM BRITAIN
8. EVENTS IN 19TH CENTURY
8.1. 1800 - UNION OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND
8.2. 1805 - VICTORY AT THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR THWARTED NAPOLEON BONAPARTE'S PLANS TO INVADE BRITAIN
8.3. 1833 - SLAVERY BANNED THROUGHOUT THE BRITISH EMPIRE
8.4. 1854-1856 - CRIMEAN WAR: FOUND BY AN ALLIANCE OF BRITAIN, FRANCE, TURKEY AND SARDINIA AGAINST RUSSIAN EXPANSION INTO THE DANUBE REGION (MODERN DAY ROMANIA)
8.5. 1899-1902 - BOER WAR FOUGHT BY BRITAIN AND HER EMPIRE AGAINST THE DESCENDANTS OF THE DUTCH SETTLERS
8.5.1. THIS WAR HIGHLIGHTED THE LIMITATION OF THE 19TH CENTURY MILITARY METHODS, EMPLOYING FOR THE FIRST TIME MODERN AUTOMATIC WEAPONS AND HIGH EXPLOSIVES TO DECIMATE THE ENEMY
9. EVENTS IN 21ST CENTURY
9.1. 2000 - FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (AN ACT OF PARLIAMENT THAT CREATES A PUBLIC "RIGHT OF ACCESS" TO INFORMATION HELD BY PUBLIC AUTHORITIES)
9.2. 2003-2009 - IRAQ WAR
9.3. 2005 - CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM ACT
9.4. CRASH OF 2008 (THE WORST ECONOMIC SHOCK SINCE THE GREAT RECESSION)
9.5. RECESION OF 2009
9.6. 2014 - SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM
9.6.1. THE REFERENDUM RESULTED IN SCOTLAND VOTING BY 55% TO 45% TO REMAIN PART OF THE UNITED KINGDOM
9.7. 2016 - EU REFERENDUM - BREXIT
9.7.1. THE RESULTS OF THE REFERENDUM WAS IN FAVOUR THE COUNTRY LEAVING THE EU WITH 51,9% OF VOTERS WANTING TO LEAVE
9.7.2. CAMERON RESIGNS
9.8. JANUARY 2020 - THE UK FORMALLY WITHDREW FROM THE EU
10. Events BC
10.1. 500000BC - BOXGROVE MAN, FROM WEST SUSSEX, THE FIRST KNOWN HUMAN IN ENGLAND
10.2. 2000BC - STONEHENGE ERECTED
10.3. 700BC - CELTS ARRIVE FROM CENTRAL EUROPE
10.4. 55 - 54BC CEASAR INVADES BRITAIN AND OCCUPIES TWO THIRDS OF COUNTRY
11. EVENTS IN 2ND CENTURY
11.1. 122-128 - EMPEROR HADRIAN BUILDS WALLED DEFENCES ON THE BORDER WITH SCOTLAND, KNOWN AS HADRIANS WALL
12. EVENTS IN 9TH CENTURY
12.1. 871 - ALFRED THE GREAT REIGNS AS KING OF WESSEX.
12.1.1. 886 - KING ALFRED RECAPTURES LONDON FROM THE DANES AND SETS OUT TO MAKE IT HABITABLE AGAIN, ADDING FORTIFICATIONS TO THE EXISTING ROMAN CITY WALLS.
13. EVENTS IN 14TH CENTURY
13.1. 1327-1377 - REIGN OF EDWARD III. EDWARD’S AMBITION TO CONQUER SCOTLAND AND FRANCE PLUNGED ENGLAND INTO THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR.
13.1.1. 1381 - PEASANT’S REVOLT LED BY WAT TYLER. THIS POPULAR UPRISING STARTED IN ESSEX, WHEN A TAX COLLECTOR TRIED TO COLLECT MONIES IN ORDER TO PAY FOR THE WAR IN FRANCE.
13.2. 1348 -1350 - THE OUTBREAK OF BUBONIC PLAGUE, THE ‘BLACK DEATH‘ KILLED HALF THE POPULATION OF ENGLAND AND AN ESTIMATED 50 MILLION PEOPLE, OR 60 PERCENT OF EUROPE’S ENTIRE POPULATION
14. EVENTS IN 16TH CENTURY
14.1. 1513 - ENGLISH VICTORY OVER THE SCOTS AT THE BATTLE OF FLODDEN
14.2. 1509-1547 - REIGN OF HENRY VIII
14.2.1. 1534 - AFTER THE POPE REFUSED TO GRANT HIS DIVORCE FROM CATHERINE OF ARAGON, HENRY VIII SET UP THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND
14.2.1.1. THE ACT OF SURPEMACY CONFIRMED THE BREAK FROM ROME, DECLARING HENRY TO BE THE SUPREME HEAD OF THE CHURCH OF THE ENGLAND
14.2.2. 1536-1540 - DISSOLUTION OF THE MONASTERIES
14.2.2.1. BY DESTORYING THE MONASTIC SYSTEM HENRY COULD AQUIRE ALL ITS WEALTH AND PROPERTY WHILST REMOVING ITS PAPIST INFLUENCE
14.2.3. 1541 - ACKNOWLEDGMENT BY THE IRISH PARLIAMENT OF HENRY VIII AS KING OF IRELAND AND HEAD OF IRISH CHURCH
15. EVENTS IN 17TH CENTURY
15.1. 1603 - JAMES VI OF SCOTLAND CROWNED JAMES I OF ENGLAND
15.1.1. THE FIRST KING TO RULE OVER SCOTLAND AND ENGLAND
15.1.2. THE GUNPOWDER PLOT WAS FAILED ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP PARLIAMENT AND ASSASSINATE KING JAMES I BY A GROUP OF CATCHOLICS
15.2. 1625 - REIGN OF KING CHARLES I
15.2.1. 1626-1631 - DISPUTES BETWEEN KING AND PARLIAMENT, OVER THE MANNER OF ENGLAND'S SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT
15.2.1.1. 1642-1646 - FIRST ENGLISH CIVIL WAR BETWEEN PARLIAMENTARIANS (ROUNDHEADS) AND ROYALISTS (CAVALIERS)
15.2.1.1.1. 1642 - FIRST MAJOR BATTLE OF THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR AT EDGEHEAD. ALMOST 30000 SOLDIERS CLASHED IN THE BATTLE THAT WAS HARD FOUGHT AND BLOODY, YET INCONCLUSIVE
15.2.1.1.2. 1643 - THE PARLIAMENTARY ALLIANCE WITH THE SCOTS BROUGHT TWO NATIONS TOGETHER IN ARMS AGAINST THEIR SHARED KING
15.2.1.1.3. 1645 - KING DEFEATED AT THE BATTLE OF NASEBY, 14TH JUNE
15.2.1.1.4. 1646 - THE LAST ROYALIST ARMY IS DEFEATED. END OF THE FIRST CIVIL WAR.
15.3. 1648 - THE SECOND ENGLISH CIVIL WAR THAT LEAD OF CHARLES I
15.3.1. TRIAL AND EXECUTION OF CHARLES I
15.3.1.1. FOLLOWING HIS EXECUTION, THERE WAS FURTHER LARGE-SCALE FIGHTING IN IRELAND, SCOTLAND AND ENGLAND, KNOWN COLLECTIVELY AS THE THIRD CIVIL WAR.
15.4. 1651 - PROCLAIMED AS KING CHARLES II BY THE SCOTS, CHARLES LED AN INVASION OF ENGLAND WHERE HE WAS DEFEATED AT THE BATTLE OF WORCESTER.
15.4.1. THIS MARKED THE END OF THE CIVIL WARS, HOWEVER BITTER DIFFERENCES REMAINED BETWEEN THE ARMY LEADERS AND CIVILIAN POLITICIANS.
15.5. 1665 - THE GREAT PLAGUE. 15% OF THE POPULATION WOULD PERISH
15.6. 1666 - THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON
15.7. 1688 - GLORIOUS REVOLUTION
15.7.1. 1688 - JAMES II FLEES TO FRANCE
15.7.2. 1689-1702 - REIGN OF WILLIAM AND MARY
15.7.2.1. 1690 - BATTLE OF THE BOYNE: WILLIAM III DEFEATS IRISH AND FRENCH ARMY
16. EVENTS IN 20TH CENTURY
16.1. 1914-1918 - WORLD WAR I
16.1.1. BY THE TIME THE GREAT WAR ENDED IN 1918, SIXTEEN MILLION PEOPLE HAD DIED
16.1.2. FIRST TANK DEPLOYED IN WORLD WAR 1, TO BREAK THE DEADLOCK THAT TRENCH WARFARE HAD CREATED ON THE WESTERN FRONT IN THE NORTHERN FRANCE
16.2. 1928 - THE EQUAL FRANCHISE ACT GAVE WOMEN OVER THE AGE OF 21 THE VOTE
16.3. 1939-1945 - WORLD WAR TWO
16.4. 1970 - AGE OF MAJORITY, INCLUDING THE VOTING AGE, IS REDUCED FROM 21 TO 18
16.5. `1973 - BRITAIN JOINS THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (EEC)
16.6. 1982 - FALKLANDS WAR. ARGENTINA FORCES INVADE THE BRITISH-OWNED FALKKLAND ISLANDS
16.6.1. A TASK FORCE WAS QUICKLY MOBILISED TO RECLAIM THE ISLAND