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(Sources: 1700-1899 Norman Davies: ''The Isles, A History", Appendix 42, Macmillan 1999. <br> ''Key Dates of Parliament'', House of Commons, 2008.[[http://www.parliament.uk/about/history/keydates_1215_1900.cfm]] | (Sources: 1700-1899 Norman Davies: ''The Isles, A History", Appendix 42, Macmillan 1999. <br> ''Key Dates of Parliament'', House of Commons, 2008.[[http://www.parliament.uk/about/history/keydates_1215_1900.cfm]] | ||
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==14th century== | ==14th century== | ||
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1413 Henry V (1413-22) | 1413 Henry V (1413-22) | ||
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1485 Henry VII (1485-1509) | 1485 Henry VII (1485-1509) | ||
== | ==16th century== | ||
1509 Henry VIII (1509-47) | 1509 Henry VIII (1509-47) | ||
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1559 The Armada | 1559 The Armada | ||
== | ==17th century== | ||
1603 James I (1603-25). | 1603 James I (1603-25). | ||
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1694 The Bank of England | 1694 The Bank of England | ||
== | ==18th century== | ||
1707 '''Act of Union''' - with Scotland [http://www.parliament.uk/actofunion/]. | 1707 '''Act of Union''' - with Scotland [http://www.parliament.uk/actofunion/]. | ||
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1789-1815 French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. | 1789-1815 French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. | ||
== | ==19th century== | ||
1801 '''Act of Union''' - with Ireland. | 1801 '''Act of Union''' - with Ireland. | ||
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1899-1902 Boer War. | 1899-1902 Boer War. | ||
== | ==20th century== | ||
1902-05 Balfour's Conservative Government. | 1902-05 Balfour's Conservative Government. | ||
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1990 Major's Conservative Government | 1990 Major's Conservative Government | ||
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Revision as of 06:25, 15 March 2009
(Sources: 1700-1899 Norman Davies: The Isles, A History", Appendix 42, Macmillan 1999.
Key Dates of Parliament, House of Commons, 2008.[[1]]
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0 to 500BC
0 to 500AD
11th century
- Norman Conquest
12th century
13th century
- Magna Carta(1215) - the founding principles of the British constitution.
- Model Parliament" (1295) - summoned by Edward I and generally regarded as the first representative assembly.
14th century
15th century
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)
16th century
1509 Henry VIII (1509-47)
1547 Edward VI (1547-53)
1553 Mary I (1553-58)
1558 Elizabeth I (1559-1603)
1559 The Armada
17th century
1603 James I (1603-25).
1625 Charles I (1625-49)
1642 Charles I enters the Commons to arrest dissidents and the Speaker replies:
- "May it please Your Majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the House is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here, and I humbly beg Your Majesty's pardon that I cannot give any other answer than this to what Your Majesty is pleased to demand of me".
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 [2] - limited the power of the king over Parliament.
1689 William and Mary.
1694 The Bank of England
18th century
1707 Act of Union - with Scotland [3].
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.
19th 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.
20th 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
1918 Representation of the People Act - gave the vote to men over 21 and women over 30 - increasing the electorate from 8 million to 21 million.
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.
1973 Britain joins the European Community. European Communities Act[4] makes EC law enforceable in the UK.
1979-1990 Thatcher's Conservative Governments.
1986 Single European Act - introduced Qualified Majority Voting to most European Union decisions [5].
1982 Falklands war.
1990 Major's Conservative Government