A journey through
British history,
from 1066 into the modern world
Battle of Hastings: William
of Normandy becomes Look at the timeline below to discover
King of England
1066 the key moments in history, from
medieval times to the modern age.
1070s
The Mi
ddle
Ages
Work begins on the Tower
of London, one of Britain’s
most famous castles
1095
Crusades begin
1173:
1170
Becket
made a
Thomas Becket saint
murdered
1215
The Magna Carta is
agreed and signed
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1283 Wales finally conquered
by the English
Joan of Arc leads
French forces 1314
to victory at the
Scots defeat the
Siege of Orleans 1429 English invaders
1337
The Hundred
1348 Years War begins
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1381 The Peasants’ Revolt
1450
The Hundred Years War
ends after 116 years
The Wars of the
Roses begin 1453
1485
Henry Tudor becomes King of
England after beating Richard III
at the Battle of Bosworth Field
1492 Christopher Columbus
(an Italian) discovers
America. A new
continent… and a new age!
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Survived Henry VII dies and his son,
Henry VIII, becomes king
1534
Henry VIII forms
an independent
Church of England
1509 to
1745
1558
1562 England becomes
Elizabeth I begins her involved in the
44-year reign African slave trade
First performance
1588 of a play by William
Shakespeare
The English defeat 1591
the Spanish Armada
1600
English trading
in India begins
1603
James VI of Scotland becomes
James I of England too and
unites the two kingdoms
1605: 1605
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North America
1649 1642 English Civil War
begins
Cromwell’s conquest 1649–
of Ireland 1650
Charles I is
executed
1649–
1660 Parliament, followed by
Oliver Cromwell, rules
instead of a monarch
1660 Restoration of the
monarchy under
Charles II
1665:
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English Bill of Rights: all
monarchs, who must
1688 be Protestant, to rule in
partnership with Parliament
The Glorious Revolution:
James II is replaced by King 1689
William and Queen Mary
1707
Act of Union between
The last Stuart, Queen Anne, England and Scotland;
dies, the throne passes to her one Parliament in London
runs both countries
nearest Protestant relation, 1714
who becomes George I; and
so the Georgian era begins
First cotton
1769 factory built by
Richard Arkwright
Captain Cook lands
1745 to
1770
in Australia and
claims it for Britain
1901
1783
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becomes independent 1783 rs
from Britain
French Revolution leads 1789
to the execution of
French king and queen
1796
Edward Jenner first
uses vaccination
against small pox
Official union of
1801 Britain with Ireland
Napoleonic Wars between
France and other nations
1803 led by Britain; the French
were defeated
–1815
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British Navy defeats French above all
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Reform Act gives
the vote to more First public railway
men in Britain carries passengers
between Stockton 1812
and Darlington
1832 Tin can invented
1821
1825
Electric motors
Slavery ends in are invented by
the British Empire Michael Faraday
1833
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Potato Famine begins
in Ireland; about 1
million people die
1859
Charles Darwin publishes
On the Origin of Species,
which proposes the idea 1865
of evolution Elementary Education
Act gives school places
Antiseptics
1870 to all children
invented
1879 1876
Light bulb invented
by Thomas Edison
Telephone invented by
Alexander Graham Bell
1885 Motor car invented
by Karl Benz
Death of Queen
1901 Victoria; succeeded
by her son, Edward VII
Modern
A new law introduces
free school meals for
Britain’s poorer children
1906 World
Sinking of
1912 the Titanic
The Great War begins; it lasts
over four years, and around
1914 nine million people are killed
Vote given to British women over 30
1918
if they own a home or are married The Wall
Street Crash
to someone who does; all women 1926
gained the right to vote in 1928
Scotsman
1928 World financial crisis begins;
many banks, businesses
Alexander Fleming
discovers penicillin
1929 and individuals are ruined
Adolf Hitler
becomes leader 1933
of Germany
Coventry-born
engineer Frank Whittle
invents the jet engine
1937
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War and Independence The Second World War
1901–Present Day begins; lasts until 1945
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people are killed 1939
Elizabeth II becomes
queen of the UK 1947
Russia launches the
world’s first ever satellite British controlled India
into space: Sputnik I. gains independence
1952 1948 and is partitioned (split)
into the nations of India
‘Please Please Me’ 1957 Start of
and Pakistan
becomes Beatles’ first
Number 1 hit song 1963 National
Health
Service
1948:
US astronaut
Neil Armstrong
Free
becomes first healthcare
man on the Moon 1969
Britain becomes a
member of the European
1973 Union (then known as the
European Community)
Equal Opportunities Act introduced
in UK, making discrimination
1975 against women illegal
Margaret Thatcher 1979
becomes Britain’s first
female Prime Minister
1989
British computer
scientist, Tim Berners-Lee,
invents the World Wide
Web; the first website
was launched in 1991
‘Good Friday Agreement’ ends
1998 30 years of conflict in Northern
Ireland and a National Assembly
(type of parliament) is set up
1999
Terror attacks in US lead
to US-led forces entering
2001 Scottish Parliament and
Welsh Assembly set up
Afghanistan to hunt for
terrorists
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