Complete British History

3,000 BC Stonehenge built 
43 AD - Romans invade Britain 
61 - Boudica killed by the Romans
122 AD- Hadrian's Wall built 
406 AD - Romans Expelled from Britain 

500 - Mythical King Arthur 
787 - Vikings start raiding Britain 
871 - Alfred the Great fights off the Vikings

1066- William the Conqueror wins the Battle of Hastings
1066-1075 Norman Conquest
1078- Tower of London built 

1215 - Magna Carta
1290 - Jewish Expulsion from UK
1297- Battle of Stirling Ridge with William Wallace

1346 - The Black Death

1455-1487 War of the Roses
1485 - Henry Tudor VII takes throne

1509 Henry Tudor VIII takes the throne
1536 - Anne Boleyn Beheaded 
1536 - Henry VIII appoints himself head of the English Church
1542 - Catherine Howard Beheaded
1547 - Edward VI takes the throne age 9
1552 - Sir Walter Raleigh born
1553 - Mary Tudor I takes the throne
1558 - Elizabeth I Tudor takes the throne
1564 - William Shakespeare Born
1588 - Spanish Armada Defeated by Sir Francis Drake

1601 - Dutch Colonize South Africa
1603-1714 Stuart Royal Period 
1605 - Guy Fawkes Plot 
1642 - English Civil War
1649 - Charles I beheaded 
1666 The Great Fire of London
1687 - Newton's theory of gravity 

1707 - Queen Anne coronation 
1714- George I coronation 
1727- George II coronation 

1756-1763 Seven Years War
1760 - George III coronation
1760 - Industrial Revolution starts
1775 - 1783 - American Revolutionary War
1798 - Edward Jenner invents Vaccines

1803-1815 Napoleonic Wars 
1805 Battle of Trafalgar 
1812 - 1815 - War of 1812
1813- Pride & Prejudice published
1815 - Battle of Waterloo
1820 - George IV coronation 
1825 - The first public railway
1830 - William IV coronation 
1832- The Great Reform Act 
1833 Great British Railway founded Ismbard Kingdom-Brunel
1837- Queen Victoria coronation 
1837 - First Monach moves into Buckingham Palace
1837 - Oliver Twist published
1843 - Big Ben Built 
1845 Great Famine of Ireland
1859 Origin of Species published
1860 - Florence Nightingale 
1861 - Great Expectations Published
1865- Joseph Lister discovers germ theory 
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell invents the Telephone
1880 - 1881 - First Boer War
1886 - Tower Bridge built 
1887 - Sherlock Holmes first published
1899 - 1903 - Second Boer Wars

1901 - Edward VII coronation 
1910 - George V coronation 
1914-1918 First World War
1916 - Adventures of Lawrence of Arabia 
1918 - Tomb of the Unknown Soldier 
1928 Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin, the first Antibiotic 
1936- Edward VIII coronation and later, abdication 
1936- George VI coronation 
1939-1945 World War Two
1940-1955 Winston Churchill PM
1942 - Stephen Hawking Born
1948 NHS founded
1948 - Aparthiet Starts in South Africa 
1949 - Nineteen Eighty-Four published

1951 - 1955 - Winston Churchill PM for 2nd Term
1952 - Elizabeth II coronation 
1953- first james bond book
1954- Lord of the Rings published
1960-1998- The Troubles
1961 - Roald Dahl's career takes off
1963 - Beatlemania - First Beatles Album 
1966 - England win the World Cup
1967 - Barclays installs the first ATM
1973 - First Queen Album
1973 - UK joins EU
1979 - Margaret Thatcher is the UK's first Female PM
1980 - John Lennon Shot
1982 - Falklands War
1983- IRA bomb harrods
1989 - Tim Bernards-Lee Invents the Internet 
1990 - John Major becomes PM
1994 - Channel Tunnel built 
1997 - Tony Blair becomes PM
1997- Princess Diana died 
1997- First Harry Potter published 
1998 - London Eye Built 

2001-2014 Afghanistan War
2003-2009 Iraq War
2007 - Gordon Brown becomes PM
2010 - David Cameron becomes PM
2016 - Theresa May becomes PM
2019 - Boris Johnson becomes PM
2020 - Brexit






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