Timeline Flashcards
1
Q
Roman Invasion
A
43 AD
2
Q
Roman period in Britania
A
43 AD - 409 AD
3
Q
City of London is founded
A
50 AD
4
Q
Hadrian’s wall
A
122 AD
5
Q
Antonine Wall
A
142 AD
6
Q
Martyrdom of St. Alban
A
304 AD
7
Q
Emperor Constantine legitimizes Christianity
A
313 AD
8
Q
Saint Patrick
A
mid 400s
9
Q
Roman legions withdraw
A
409 AD
10
Q
Anglo Saxons settle in Britain
A
450 - 550 AD
11
Q
Saint Columba
A
mid 500s
12
Q
Dark Ages
A
5th - 6th century
13
Q
Battle of Badon
A
516 AD
14
Q
Battle of Camlann
A
537 AD
15
Q
Ethelbert of Kent
A
560 - 616 AD
16
Q
St Augustine comes to Britain (Roman Christianity)
A
595 - 597 AD
17
Q
Anglo Saxon burial at Sutton Hoo
A
625 AD
18
Q
Appeared the comet-star, death of Saint Egbert in Iona
A
729 AD
19
Q
King Offa of Mercia
A
757 - 796 AD
20
Q
Viking invasions
A
790 - 900 AD
21
Q
Fore-warnings over the land of the Northumbrians (the Vikings-heathen men, ravished the whole island, slaughter)
A
793 AD
22
Q
King Alfred the Great
A
849 - 899 AD
23
Q
King Arthur and Beowulf
A
1000 AD
24
Q
Sweyn Forkbeard
A
1013 - 1014 AD
25
King Canute (Cnut)
1016 - 1035 AD
26
Edward the Confessor (final Saxon king)
1042 - 1066 AD
27
Norman Conquest and Invasion
1066 AD
28
Battle of Hastings
1066 AD
29
Tower of London
1078 AD
30
Domesday Book (end of Dark Ages)
1086 AD
31
Murder of Thomas Beckett, Archbishop of Canterbury (indirect order of King Henry II)
1170 AD
32
Christmas liturgical drama
12th century
33
Magna Carta
1215 AD
34
Reign of Edward I.
1272 - 1307 AD
35
Winchester Round table
1275 AD
36
Battle of Falkirk, King Edward I.
1298 AD
37
Reign of Edward II.
1307 - 1327 AD
38
Reign of Edward III.
1327 - 1377 AD
39
Geoffrey Chaucer
1343 - 1400 AD
40
Black Death
1348 AD
41
Chaucer trip to Italy
1373 AD
42
The Canterbury Tales published
1387 AD
43
King Henry IV. (1st king from the House of Lancaster, 1st king to speak English)
1399 AD
44
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
14th century
45
Chaucer dies
1400 AD
46
Battle of Agincourt (Henry V)
1415 AD
47
Death of Henry V
1422 AD
48
The Wars of the Roses
1455 - 1485 AD
49
Caxton brings printing to England (one of the first prints, The Canterbury Tales)
1476 AD
50
Battle of Bossworth Field
1485 AD
51
End of Medieval England, Beginning of Reneissance
1485 AD
52
Columbus' 1st voyage to the New World
1492 AD
53
Death of Henry VII
1509 AD
54
Mary I (Tudor Queen)
1516 - 1558 AD
55
Edmund Spenser
1522 - 1599 AD
56
Arioto's Orlando Furioso (Medieval Chivalric Romance)
1532 AD
57
Queen Elizabeth I (Tudor queen)
1533 - 1603 AD
58
English Reformation
1534 - 1536 AD
59
England leaves the Roman Catholic church
1536 - 1541 AD
60
English Reformation Dissolution of the Monasteries
cca 1536 - 1541 AD
61
The New World
cca 1544 AD
62
Death of Henry VIII
1547 AD
63
Elizabeth, as a prisoner, sent to the Tower of London
1554 AD
64
Elizabethan Period
1558 - 1603 AD
65
Book of Common Prayer
1559 AD
66
Smallpox
1562 AD
67
Plague
1563 AD
68
Birth of Shakespear and Marlowe
1564 AD
69
Shakespeare's lifetime
1564 - 1616 AD
70
King James I. of England and VI. of Scotland is born
1566 AD
71
Sir John Davies
1569 - 1626 AD
72
Ben Johnson
1572 - 1637 AD
73
John Donne
1572 - 1631 AD
74
Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe
1577 - 1580 AD
75
Spanish Armada (naval invasion)
1588 AD
76
Speech to the troops at Tilbury, from Queen Elizabeth I.
1588 AD
77
Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
1589 AD
78
Faerie Queene Book I
1590 AD
79
Sir George Peele, His Golden Locks
1590 AD
80
Decade of Sonnets
1590s
81
Sir Philip Sidney, Sonnet 15, Sonnet 19
1591 AD
82
Samuel Daniel, Sonnet VI from Delia
1592 AD
83
C. Marlowe, The Tragedy of Dr. Faustus
1594 AD
84
Edmund Spenser, Sonnet LXVII, Like as a huntsman
1595 AD
85
Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
1595 - 1596 AD
86
Davies, Orchestra or Poem on Dancing
1595 AD
87
Daemonologie
1598 AD
88
Shakespeare, Henry V.
1599 AD
89
Globe theatre built
1599 AD
90
Queen Elizabeth I., On Monsieur's Departure
1600 AD
91
Donne married
1601 AD
92
Death of Queen Elizabeth I.
1603 AD
93
Accession of King James I. (James VI of Scotland) (Jacobean Age)
1603 AD
94
1st colony in Virginia
1607 AD
95
Jamestown settlement (Virginia)
1607 AD
96
Shakespeare Sonnets published (29, 64, 130)
1609 AD
97
King James' Bible
1611 AD
98
Sir Walter Raleigh, On the Life of Man
1612 AD
99
B. Johnson, To Penshurt
1616 AD
100
Death of Shakespeare
1616 AD
101
Puritans found colony in Plymouth Bay, Massachusetts
1620 AD
102
Donne Dean of Saint Paul's Cathedral
1620 AD
103
1st Folio of Shakespeare's works appears
1623 AD
104
House of Stuart (King James)
1625 AD
105
Massachusetts Bay Colony
1627 AD
106
J. Donne, The Sunne Rising, The Flea, Holy Sonnet 10
1633 AD
107
Commonwealth under Cromwell
1642 - 1651 AD
108
King Charles I beheaded
1649 AD
109
Rastoration of the monarchy
1660 AD
110
Founding of the Royal Society
1660 AD
111
Carolina (Colonies)
1663 AD
112
Great Fire of London
1666 AD
113
Alexander Pope
1688 to 1744 AD
114
Alexander Selkirk, Juan Fernandez Islands
1704 AD
115
Kingdom of Great Britain established
1707 AD
116
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (The Age of Enlightenment)
1719 AD
117
Simon Armitage translation (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight)
2007 AD
118
the discovery of Richard III’s Skeleton under a car park
2012 AD
