Historical Dates Flashcards
1939
Start of WWII
1066
Battle of Hastings-Norman Conquest
1945
End of WWII
1914-1918
WWI
1918
End of WWI
1215
Magna Carta
1381
Peasants Revolt
1415
Battle of Agincourt
1535
Execution of Thomas More
1517
Martin Luther nails up 95 theses to Church door. Start of the Reformation.
1588
Defeat of the Spanish Armada
1815
Battle of Waterloo
1618-1648
30 years war
500 A.D
Anglo-Saxon conquest
900 A.D
The Danelaw
1170
Murder of Thomas á Becket
1314
Scottish and Welsh wars. Bannockburn
1485
Defeat of Yorkists. Battle of Bosworth
1553
Catholic Restoration
1611
King James Bible
1649
Execution of Charles I and Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
1689
Glorious Revolution and Battle of the Boyne (1690)
1707
Union of England and Scotland
1721
Robert Walpole, first prime minister
1763
Treaty of Paris, securing Canada etc. for Crown
1769
Introduction of spinning mule: key moment in Industrial Revolution
1776
Loss of American colonies (Declaration of Independance)
1805
Battle of Trafalgar
1825
Opening of first railway
1832
Great Reform Bill
1833
Abolition of Slavery
1838
Chartism
1846
Repeal of Corn Laws
1886
Irish Home Rule Bill
1904
Entente Cordiale
1919
Treaty of Versaille
1931
Statute of Westminster
1940
Winston Churchill as Prime Minister
476 AD
Last Roman Emperor, Romulus Augustulus, taken prisoner at Ravenna by German King Odovacar
800
Charlemagne unified most of Europe
1455
War of the Roses begun
1642-1648
English Civil War
1739
War of Jenkins Ear
1789
French Revolution
2200 BC
Stonehenge
43 AD
Roman Invasion of Britain
597
St. Augustine
871
Alfred the Great
1320
Declaration of Arbroath
1370
Canterbury Tales-Chaucer
1605
Gunpowder Plot
1564-1616
Shakespeare
1649
Execution of Charles I
1694
Bank of England