History of England/Timelines

(Sources: 1700-1899 Norman Davies: The Isles, A History", Macmillan 1999 Appendix 42 page 977
Key Dates of Parliament House of Commons 2008[[1]]

Template:TOC-right 1066    Battle of Hastings Norman Conquest

1215    Magna Carta

1295    "Model Parliament"

Fifteenth century

1405 http://www.parliament.uk/about/history/keydates_1215_1900.cfm House of Commons gains power over taxation.

1413    Henry V (1413-22)

1415    Agincourt

1422    Henry VI (1422-61)

1461    Edward IV (1461-83)

1483    Richard III (1483-85)

1485    Henry VII (1485-1509)

Sixteenth century

1509    Henry VIII (1509-47)

1547     Edward VI (1547-53)

1553     Mary I (1553-58)

1558    Elizabeth I (1559-1603)

1559    The Armada

Seventeenth century

1603    James I (1603-25).

1625    Charles I (1625-49)

1643-46 Civil War.

1660    Restoration. Charles II (1660-85)

1673    Test Act. Catholics excluded from office.

1685    James II (1685-88)
      Monmouth Rebellion.

1688    "The Glorious Revolution" and Bill of Rights Established the constitutional monarchy and limited the power of the sovereign over Parliament.

1689    William and Mary.

1694    The Bank of England

Eighteenth century

1707    Act of Union - with Scotland.

1713    Treaty of Utrecht.

1714     Hanoverian succession.
              George I (1714-27)

1727    Geoge II (1727-1760)

1715    First Jacobite Rising

1739-48    War of Jenkins Ear - with Spain.

1744-8 War of the Austrian Succession.

1745    Second Jacobite Rising - "the '45"

1746    Battle of Culloden.

1756-63 Seven Years War - acquisition of India and Canada.

1760    George III (1760-1820).

1775-81 War of American Independence - the creation of the United States of America.

1787     Kingdom of Ireland granted autonomy.

1789-1815 French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars.

Nineteenth century

1801    Act of Union - with Ireland.

1805    Battle of Trafalgar.

1815    Battle of Waterloo.

1820    George IV (1820-30).

1830    William IV (1830-37).

1832     Reform Act Raised the proportion of adult English males entitled to vote to 20 per cent.

1837     Queen Victoria (1837-1901)/

1845-50 Irish Famine.

1846    Repeal of Corn Laws.

1833-36 Crimean War.

1857-58 Indian Mutiny.

1874    Disraeli's First Conservative Government (1874-80).

1880    Gladstone's Liberal Government.

1898    Battle of Omdurman

1899-1902 Boer War.

Twentieth century

1902-05 Balfour's Conservative Government.

1902    Edward VII (1902-10).

1905-08 Campbell-Bannerman's Liberal Government.

1908-1915 Asquith's Liberal Government (Lloyd George Chancellor of the Exchequer)

1911    George V (1911-36).
           Lloyd George's National Insurance Bill.

1914-18     First World War.

1915-16 Asquith's Coalition Government.

The inter-war years

1919    Treaty of Versailles.

1919-23 Lloyd George's Coalition Governments.

1920    Ireland gets Home Rule.

1922-23 Bonar Law's Conservative Government.

1923-24 Baldwin's First Conservative Government

1924     Macdonald's First Labour Government.

1924-29 Baldwin's Second Conservative Government.

1926    General Strike.
           Baird's television system.

1928    Fleming discovers penicillin

1929-31 Macdonald's Second Labour Government.

1931    Britain leaves the gold standard.

1931-35 Macdonald's National Government.

1935-37 Baldwin's National Government.

1936    Abdication of Edward VII.

1937    George VI (1937-52}

1937-40 Chamberlain's Conservative Government.

1938    Munich Pact with Germany.

1939-45    Second World War

1940-45 Churchill's Wartime Coalition Government.

Post-war Britain

1945    Churchill's First Conservative Government.

1945-51 Atlee's Labour Government

1948     National Health Service.

1951-55 Churchill's Second Conservative Government.

1953    Elizabeth II.
       Crick and Watson establish the structure of DNA.

1955-57 Eden's Conservative Government.

1956    Suez war.

1957-63 MacMillan Prime Minister of Conservative Government.

1963-70 Home Prime Minister of Conservative Government.

1970     Heath Prime Minister of Conservative Government.

1975    Britain joins the European Common Market.

1979-1990 Thatcher's Conservative Governments.

1982    Falklands war.

1990    Major's Conservative Government