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Saturday, June 26, 2021

Basic timeline of the United Kingdom

This post is a basic timeline of the United Kingdom. There are 40 events listed below chronologically.

• First humans (13,000 years ago)
• Roman rule of Britain (43 - 410 AD)
• Anglo-Saxons (450-1066 AD)
• Battle of Deorham (577)
• Northumbria (654 - 954 AD)
• Vikings arrive (787 AD)
• Kingdom of England (924 - 1707 AD)
• Norman Conquest (11th century)
• Angevins (12th - 13th century)
• Magna Carta peace treaty (1215)
• Hundred Years War (1337-1453)
• Black Death arrives (1348)
• War of the Roses (1455-1487)
• Tudor period (1485-1603)
• Elizabethan era (1558-1603)
• East India Company (1600-1874)
• Jamestown settlement in America (1607)
• English Civil War (1642-1651)
• Commonwealth of England (1649-1660)
• Protectorate government (1653-1659)
• Glorious Revolution (1688-1689)
• Great Britain established (1707)
• Thirteen Colonies (1707-1775)
• South Sea Company (1711-1853)
• Seven Years War (1754-1763)
• American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)
• United States Declaration of Independence (1776)
• War of the Second Coalition (1798-1802)
• Ireland is annexed (1801)
• War of 1812 (1812-1815)
• Victorian era (1837-1901)
• First Boer War (1880-1881)
• Second Boer War (1899-1902)
• Edwardian era (1901-1914)
• World War I (1914-1918)
• Ireland gains independence (1922)
• World War II (1939-1945)
• Joins European Economic Community (1973)
• European Union referendum (2016)
• Leaves the European Union (2020)

(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of the United Kingdom at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of the United Kingdom.)

Sources

Wikipedia: History of the United Kingdom, History of England