| Julius Caesar's raids on Britain |
55&54 BC |
| Claudian conquest of Britain |
43 AD |
| Boudicca's revolt |
61AD |
| Hadarian Wall completed |
122AD |
| Roman rule ends in Britain |
410AD |
| Beginning of Anglo-Saxon invasions of Britain |
About 550 AD |
| Christianization of Ireland by St. Patrick |
432 – 461 AD |
| St. Augustine founds a monastery at Canterbury |
597 AD |
| Synod of Whitby |
664AD |
| Venerable Bede completes the History of the English Church and People |
731 AD |
| reign of Alfred the Great |
871 – 899 AD |
| Treaty of Wedmore |
878 AD |
| Anglo-Saxon Chronicle |
Created late in 9th century. |
| Battle of Brunanburgh |
937 |
| Battles of Stamford Bridge and Hastings |
1066 |
| Domesday Book |
Finished at 1086 |
| Magna Carta Libertatum |
1215 |
| Simon de Montfort's parliament |
1265 |
| Statute of Rhuddlan |
1284 |
| Model Parliament |
1295 |
| Battle of Bannockburn |
24 june 1314 |
| Hundred Years' War |
1337 – 1457 |
| Battle of Crecy |
26 august 1346 |
| Black Death |
1348-1350 |
| Great Revolt of the Peasants |
1381 |
| revolt of Owain Glyndwr |
1400 |
| Battle of Agincourt |
1415 |
| Wars of the Roses |
1455 – 1485 |
| Battle of Bosworth |
1485 |
| Act of Supremacy |
I – 1539, II – 1559 |
| Wales legally incorporated by England |
Since 1536 |
| Reign of Queen Elizabeth I |
1558 – 1603 |
| Francis Drake circumnavigates the world |
1577 – 1580 |
| defeat of the Spanish Armada |
1588 |
| personal union of England and Scotland |
1603 – 1707 |
| the Gunpowder Plot |
1605 |
| the Authorized Version of the Bible |
1604 – 1611(finished and printed) |
| English Civil War |
1642- 1651 |
| Execution of Charles I |
1649 |
| the Commonwealth and the Protectorate |
1649 – 1658 |
| Great Fire of London |
2 september – 5 september 1666 |
| Habeas Corpus Act |
1679 |
| Glorious Revolution |
1688 |
| English Bill of Rights |
1689 |
| Battle of the Boyne |
1690 |
| foundation of the Bank of England |
1694 |
| Act of Settlement |
1701 |
| Battle of Blenheim |
1704 |
| Act of Union with Scotland, Great Britain comes in life |
1707 |
| Jacobite Rebellion of Fifteen |
1715 |
| Robert Walpole becomes the first Prime Minister |
1725 |
| Battle of Culloden |
1746 |
| Battle of Plassey |
23 june 1757 |
| Captain Cook’s voyages |
I – 1768 -1771; II – 1772 – 1775; III – 1776-1779 |
| French Revolutionary War |
1792 – 1802 |
| Battle of the Nile |
1-3 august 1798 |
| Union of Great Britain and Ireland |
1800 |
| Battle of Trafalgar |
21 october 1805 |
| Battle of Waterloo |
18 june 1815 |
| Catholic Emancipation Act |
1829 |
| Great Reform Bill (First Reform Act) |
1832 |
| abolition of slavery in all British dominions |
1834 |
| Reign of Queen Victoria |
1837 – 1901 |
| Chartist Movement |
1838 – 1848 |
| Crimean War |
October 1853 – February 1856 |
| Indian Mutiny |
1857 – 1858 |
| British North America Act |
1867 |
| The Boer War |
1880 – 1881; 1899 – 1902 |
| Labour Party first time in Parliament |
1924 (?) |
| Parliament Act |
1911 |
| World War I |
28 July 1914 - 11 November 1918 |
| Gallipoli campaign |
25 April 1915 - 9 January 1916 |
| Battle of the Somme |
1 July - 18 November 1916 |
| Battle of Jutland |
31 May and 1 June 1916 |
| Easter Rising |
during Easter Week, 1916 |
| George V changes the name of the Royal House to Windsor |
17 July 1917 |
| Treaty of Versailles |
28 June 1919 |
| Irish Free State established |
6 December 1922 |
| Statute of Westminster |
11 December 1931 |
| abdication of Edward VIII |
1936 |
| World War II |
1939 - 1945 |
| Dunkirk evacuation |
1940 |
| Battle of Britain |
1940 |
| Battle of El Alamein and loss of Singapore |
1942 |
| Monte Cassino |
1944 |
| D-Day |
June 6, 1944 |
| Operation Market Garden |
17–25 September 1944 |
| United Nations formed |
1945 |