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England history and timeline - Coggle Diagram
England history and timeline
Prehistory
500,000 BC -
Boxgrove Man, from West Sussex, the first known human in England.
2000 BC -
Stonehenge erected.
700 BC -
Celts arrive from central Europe.
Roman Occupation
(55 BC–AD 410)
55 BC -
Julius Caesar heads first Roman invasion.
AD 61 -
Rebellion of Boadicea, Queen of the Iceni, crushed
Arrival of Jutes, Angles and Saxons
449–550
897 -
Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, defeats the Vikings.
980–1016 -
Viking invasions are renewed.
The Normans
(1066–1154)
1066 -
Conquest of England by William, Duke of Normandy.
1067 -
The Tower of London is begun.
1086 -
The Domesday Book, a complete inventory of England, is made.
The Plantagenets (1154–1399)
1154 -
Henry II becomes king.
1215 -
King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede.
1348–49
The Black Death kills nearly a third to half of the population.
1381 -
Peasants’ Revolt: rebels take London. The leader, Wat Tyler, is beheaded at Tower Hill.
1387 -
Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is published.
Houses of Lancaster and York
(1399–1485)
1455–85 -
Wars of the Roses between the competing Houses of York and Lancaster.
1476 -
William Caxton sets up England’s first printing press.
The Tudors
(1485–1603)
1485 -
Henry VII is crowned king after defeating Richard III.
1497 -
John Cabot explores the North American coast
1509 -
Henry VIII succeeds to the throne. Papal authority in England is abolished; monarch becomes Supreme Head of the Church of England.
1536 -
Act of Union joins England and Wales.
1558 -
Elizabeth I begins her 45-year reign.
1580 -
Sir Francis Drake completes his circumnavigation of the world.
1588 -
The Spanish Armada is defeated.
The Stuarts -
(1603–1714)
1603 -
James VI of Scotland is crowned James I of England.
1605 -
Guy Fawkes fails to blow up Parliament.
1620 -
The Pilgrim Fathers set sail for America.
1642–49
Civil War between Royalists and republican Roundheads. The monarchists are defeated and Charles I is beheaded.
1666 -
The Great Fire of London.
The House of Hanover (1714–1836)
1714 -
George I of Hanover, Germany, takes the throne.
1721 -
Sir Robert Walpole becomes Britain’s first prime minister.
1769 -
Captain Cook makes first voyage to Australia.
1775 -
James Watt patents the first steam engine.
1805 -
Admiral Lord Nelson is killed at Battle of Trafalgar.
