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Date |
Events |
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1520 | Henry VIII and Francis I of France meet at the field of the cloth of gold |
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1533 | Henry VIII secretly marries Anne Boleyn |
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1536 | Anne Boleyn is executed |
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1540 | Henry VIII marries and divorces Anne of Cleves, marries Catherine Howard |
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1544 | At war with France, capture Boulogne |
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1547 | Edward VI succeeds Henry VIII |
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1547/ 1/28 | Edward VI succeeds Henry VIII |
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1553/ 7/19 | Mary I succeeds Edward VI |
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1554/ 2/12 | Lady Jane Grey executed |
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1558/11/17 | Elizabeth I succeeds Mary I |
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1580/ / | Drake circumnavigates the world |
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1587/ / | Execution of Mary Queen of Scots |
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1588/ 7/29 | Spanish Armada defeated off Plymouth |
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1603 | James I succeeds Elizabeth I |
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1605 | Gunpowder plot |
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1611 | Authorised Version of Bible published |
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1616 | Shakespeare dies |
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1618 | Raleigh executed |
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1620 | Pilgrim Fathers set sail |
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1622 | Virginia settlers massacred |
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1625 | Charles I succeeds James I |
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1629 | Charles dissolves Parliament |
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1642/ 8/22 | Outbreak of the Civil War |
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1646/ 5/ 5 | Charles I surrenders at Newark |
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1648/ 1/15 | Start of Second Civil War |
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1649 | Trial and execution of Charles I |
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1651/ 9/ 3 | Charles II supporters defeated at Worcester, Charles escapes to France |
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1653 | Ctomwell becomes Lord Protector |
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1658/ 9/ 3 | Cromwell dies |
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1660/ 5/ 8 | Charles is proclaimed King |
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1665/ 6/ 7 | The Great Plague is first reported in London |
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1666/ 9/ 2 | Great Fire of London breaks out |
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1667 | Dutch raid the Thames |
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1685/ 2/ 6 | James II succeeds Charles II |
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1685/ 6/11 | Duke of Monmouth landed at Lyme Regis, proclaimed King at Taunton |
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1688/11/ 5 | William of Orange lands at Torbay |
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1690 | Irish Jacobites defeated at the Boyne |
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1694 | Bank of England founded |
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1698 | Savery invents first steam engine |
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1702/ 3/ 8 | Anne succeeds William III |
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1704 | Marlborough wins at Blenheim, Gibraltar captured |
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1706 | Marlborough wins at Ramillies |
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1708 | Marlborough wins at Oudenarde |
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1709 | Marlborough wins at Malplaquet |
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1712 | Last execution for withcraft |
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1714/ 8/ 1 | George I succeeds Anne |
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1719 | South Sea Bubble bursts |
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1727 | Death of Isaac Newton |
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1727/ 6/11 | George II succeeds George I |
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1728 | Charles Wesley founds the Oxford Methodists |
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1731 | Capt. Jenkins loses his ear |
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1741 | Famine in Ireland |
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1745/ 7/25 | Charles Edward (the Young Pretender) lands in Scotland |
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1751 | Clive captures Arcot |
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1752/ 1/ 1 | Officially new year begins (previously new year began on March 25) |
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1756 | Black Hole of Calcutta |
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1757 | Clive wins at Plassey |
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1758 | Halley's Comet |
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1760 | Conquest of Canada complete |
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1760/10/25 | George III succeeds George II |
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1762 | Boulton starts the Soho foundry |
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1763 | Boswell meets Johnson |
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1767/ 3/16 | Fire at Ottery St Mary |
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1769 | Cook lands at Tahiti, Watt's steam engine and Arkwright's water frame invented |
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1772/10/21 | Birth of S T Coleridge |
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1776/ 7/ 4 | American Declaration of Independence |
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1781 | British surrender at Yorktown |
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1787 | Cartwright patents the power loom |
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1789/ 7/14 | Outbreak of the French Revolution |
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1793/ 2/ 1 | French Republic declares war on Britain |
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1796 | Jenner's cowpox vaccination is tested |
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1799 | Napoleon comes to power |
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1803 | Napoleonic wars begin |
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1805 | Nelson wins and dies at Trafalgar |
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1808 | Peninsula War begins |
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1811/ 2/ 5 | Prince of Wales becomes Prince Regent |
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1812 | Anglo-American War begins |
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1814 | Gas lighting is installed at Westminster, Napoleon is exiled to Elba |
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1815/ 6/15 | Battle of Waterloo |
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1819 | Peterloo massacre, East India Company buys Singapore |
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1820/ 1/29 | George IV succeeds George III |
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1821 | Death of Napoleon |
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1825 | Stockton and Darlington Railway opened |
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1829 | Stephenson's Rocket succeeds at trials |
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1830/ 6/26 | William IV succeeds George IV |
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1831/ 6/ 4 | Reform Bill |
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1836 | Act for the Registration of births, marriages and deaths |
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1837/ 6/20 | Victoria succeeds William IV |
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1838 | Afghan War breaks out |
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1845 | Irish famine starts |
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1848 | Cholera epidemic |
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1851/ 5/ 1 | Great Exhibition opens |
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1854/ 3/28 | Crimea War starts |
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1857/ 5/10 | Indian Mutiny begins |
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1859 | Darwin's Origin of Species |
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1861 | Death of Prince Albert |
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1861/ 4/12 | American Civil War commences |
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1866/ 5/25 | Great Fire of Ottery St Mary |
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1873 | Outbreak of Ashanti War |
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1878 | Second Afghan War and Zulu War begin |
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1881 | The first Boer War and the Mahdi's rebellion begin |
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1888 | Jack the Ripper murders six women in London |
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1894 | The Manchester Ship Canal is opened |
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1899/10/10 | The second Boer War begins |
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1901/ 1/22 | Edward VII succeeds Victoria |
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1902 | End of Boer War |
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1905 | First motor bus service in London, Picadilly and Bakerloo tubes opened |
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1910/ 5/ 6 | George V succeeds Edward VII |
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1914/ 8/ 4 | Great War begins |
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1918/11/11 | Great War ends |
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1921 | The Irish Free State is created |
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1926/ 5/ 3 | General Strike begins |
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1929 | The great depression begins |
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1933 | Adolf Hitler becomes German chancellor |
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1935 | Italy invades Ethiopia |
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1936/ 1/20 | Edward VIII succeeds George V |
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1936/12/10 | Edward VIII abdicates, succeeded by George VI |
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1938 | Munich agreement |
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1939/ 9/ 3 | Second World War begins |
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1940/ 5/11 | Churchill succeeds Chamberlain as prime minister |
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1942/ 2/25 | Surrender of Singapore |
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1944/ 6/ 6 | D-Day |
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1945/ 5/ 8 | Second World War against Germany ends |
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1945/ 8/ 6 | H bomb dropped |
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1945/ 9/ 2 | Victory over Japan |
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1947 | India becomes independant and partitioned |
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1950 | Korean war breaks out |
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1952/ 2/ 6 | Elizabeth II succeeds George VI |
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1956/10/31 | Invasion of Egypt over Suez |
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1957/10/ 4 | Sputnik I, first satellite launched |
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1961/ 5/25 | JFK announces programme for a manned landing on the Moon |
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1963 | Assassination of John F Kennedy |
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1969/ 7/20 | Manned landing on the Moon by Aldrin and Armstrong using Apollo rocket |
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1971 | Decimal currency is introduced |
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1973 | Energy crisis, three day week, VAT introduced |
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1975 | First oil from North Sea comes ashore |
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1979/ 1/ | Overthrow of Shah of Iran |
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1982/ 4/ 2 | Falklands War begins |
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1989/11/ 9 | Berlin Wall opened |
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1991/ 1/16 | Gulf War begins |