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The Roman conquest begins under Emperor Claudius
Queen Boudica's revolt against the Romans begins
Construction of Hadrian's Wall begins
Emperor Honorius recalls the last Roman legions from Britain
St. Augustine arrives in England
The Synod of Whitby aligns the English with Roman rather than Celtic Christianity
The Venerable Bede produces the Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Viking raids begin with an attack on Lindisfarne.
The Viking Great Heathen Army invades England
Alfred the Great becomes King of Wessex
Alfred the Great defeats the Great Heathen Army at the Battle of Edington
Æthelstan becomes King of the English
Æthelstan defeats the Scots and Danes at the Battle of Brunanburh
Æthelred the Unready becomes King of England for the first time
King Æthelred the Unready orders the deaths of leading Danes in England
Cnut the Great of Denmark becomes King of England.
Edward the Confessor becomes King of England
William the Conqueror becomes King of England
The Domesday Book is completed
King William II is killed hunting in the New Forest King Henry I issues the Charter of Liberties
King Henry I's son William Adelin drowns in the White Ship disaster
Civil War between King Stephen and King Henry I's daughter Matilda begins
Matilda is proclaimed 'Lady of the English'
Matilda's son Henry Plantagenet becomes King Henry II
King Henry II's Assize of Clarendon begins the process of ending trial by ordeal or battle and establishing trial by jury
Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket is murdered
King Richard I wins the sobriquet 'Lionheart' at the battle of the Jaffa during the Third Crusade
King Richard I is killed at the Siege of Châlus
The Anglo-French War ends with the Battle of Bouvines; King John loses all his lands in northern France
King John signs the Magna Carta
King Henry III is defeated in the Battle of Taillebourg
The Provisions of Oxford compel Henry III to recognise the rights and powers of Parliament
Simon de Montfort defeats King Henry III at the Battle of Lewes and becomes de facto ruler of England
Simon de Montfort summons his revolutionary Parliament and is later killed at the Battle of Evesham
King Edward I expells all the Jews from England
King Edward I summons the Model Parliament
Scot William Wallace defeats King Edward I's army at the Battle of Stirling Bridge
The Lords Ordainers impose a series of regulations on King Edward II
King Edward II is defeated by Scots King Robert I 'the Bruce' at the Battle of Bannockburn; Scottish Independence is established
King Edward II is deposed and murdered in Berkeley Castle
The 100 Years' War begins
Walter Raleigh founds the Roanoke Colony in America
King Edward III wins the Battle of Crécy
The Black Death arrives in England
Edward of Woodstock 'The Black Prince' wins the Battle of Poitiers
Watt Tyler's Peasants' Revolt
John Wycliffe completes a translation of the Bible directly from the Vulgate into Middle English
The Lords Appellant execute eight members of Richard II's court for treason at the 'Merciless Parliament’
King Richard II is deposed by Henry Bolingbroke Duke of Lancaster who becomes King Henry IV
Henry 'Hotspur' Percy bids to dethrone King Henry IV and is killed in the Battle of Shrewsbury
King Henry V renews the Hundred Years' War and wins the Battle of Agincourt
Henry VI becomes King of England at nine months old
Joan of Arc lifts the Siege of Orléans
The English defeat at the Battle of Castillon ends the Hundred Years' War
The Wars of the Roses begin with the First Battle of St. Albans
Edward Duke of York wins the Battle of Towton and becomes King Edward IV
King Henry VI is murdered in the Tower of London following the Battle of Tewkesbury
William Caxton introduces the printing press into England
King Edward V disappears in the Tower of London and Richard Duke of Gloucester becomes King Richard III
Henry Tudor defeats and kills King Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth and becomes King Henry VII
John Cabot lands at Newfoundland Canada
Henry VIII becomes King of England
King James IV of Scotland invades England and is killed at the Battle of Flodden
King Henry VIII meets King Francis I of France at the Field of the Cloth of Gold
William Tyndale transles and prints the New Testament from Hebrew and Greek into English
The Act of Supremacy makes King Henry VIII
Thomas More is executed for refusing to swear to the Act of Supremacy
King Henry VIII executes Queen Anne Boleyn
Henry VIII executes his Chief Minister Thomas Cromwell
Henry VIII executes Queen Catherine Howard
The Book of Common Prayer is first published
Catholic Mary Tudor becomes Queen Mary I
Lady Jane Grey is executed
First Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake
Elizabeth Tudor becomes Queen Elizabeth I
The Church of England's Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion are established by Elizabeth I
The north of England rises against Protestant Elizabeth I in favour of Catholic Mary Queen of Scots
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is executed for his involvement in the Ridolfi Plot to depose Elizabeth I in favour of Mary Queen of Scots
Sir Francis Throckmorton is executed for his plot to assassinate Elizabeth I in favour of Mary Queen of Scots
Mary Queen of Scots is executed following Babington's plot to assassinate Elizabeth I
The Spanish Armada is defeated
Queen Elizabeth I grants a charter to the East India Company
Mary Queen of Scots son King James VI of Scotland becomes King James I of England in the 'Union of the Crowns'
The Gunpowder Plot
The first permanent English settlement in the Americas is founded at Jamestown Viriginia
The King James Version of the Bible is first published
Death of William Shakespeare
The Pilgrim Fathers sail for the Americas
Charles I becomes of King of England
Charles I signs the Petition of Right
Parliament presents King Charles I with a list of grievances called the Grand Remonstrance
The English Civil War begins
Charles I is defeated at the Battle of Naseby
Colonel Thomas Pride 'purges' the House of Commons of supporters of Charles I
King Charles I is executed
Oliver Cromwell defeats the future King Charles II at the Battle of Worcester
Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector
The Restoration of the monarchy under King Charles II
New Amsterdam surrenders to Colonel Richard Nicolls and becomes New York
The Great Fire of London
Sir Isaac Newton publishes 'Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica', his law of universal gravitation
William Penn founds the Pennsylvania Colony and Philadelphia
Catholic King James II is deposed in the Glorious Revolution
The Declaration of Right (English Bill of Rights) limits the power of the Crown
King William III defeats deposed James II at the Battle of the Boyne
The Bank of England is founded
The Act of Settlement bars Roman Catholics from the throne
James II's second daughter Anne becomes Queen of England
John Churchill Duke of Marlborough wins the Battle of Blenheim Admiral George Rooke captures Gibraltar
The Acts of Union unite England and Scotland and form the Kingdom of Great Britain
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