Timeline Flashcards
Athelstan captures York
927
Cnut becomes king
1016
The domesday book
1086
Stephen becomes king - Anarchy and Civil War with Matilda
1135
Battle of Lincoln
1141
John becomes king and tries to continue wars but loses.
1199
Magna Carta signed
1215
Edward I becomes king
1272
Invasion of Scotland
1290
Hundred years war
1337-1453
Wars of the Roses
1455-1485
Battle of Flooded field
1513
James V of Scotland allies with France and attacks England
1542
Elizabeth I becomes Queen
1558
Privateers attack Spanish ships
1560s
Spanish Armada
1580
War with Ireland
1594
James I becomes king and unites England and Scotland - ends border tensions
1603
Charles I becomes king
1625
Scots rebel against Charles I
1639
English Civil wars begin
1642
1st siege of Basing house
1643
2nd civil war
1648
Charles I executed
1649
Cromwell uses the new army to crush Ireland and Scotland
1649-51
Charles II becomes king
1660
James II is overthrown and replaced with his daughter and her husband
1688
1st JB rebellion - James II tries to take power
1715
2nd JB rebellion - Charles Stuart tries to take power
1745
Battle of Culloden
1745
7 years war
1756
French Revolution begins
1789
1st Revolutionary war
1792
2nd Revolutionary war
1798
Napoleonic wars
1803
Crimean war
1854-56
Charge of the light brigade
1854
Boer war phase 1
1880-81
Boer war phase 2
1899-1902
WW1
1914
Dora introduced
1914
Air raids
1915
Battle of the Somme
1916
Conscription introduced in WW1
1916
Rationing introduced WW1
1918
End of WW1
1918
Women over 30 given the vote
1918
General strike
1926
Conscription introduced for WW1
1938
WW2 starts
1939
Women conscripted in WW2
1941
Beveridge report starts
1942
end of ww2
1945
Britain no longer a great world power
1945
korean war
1950s
Berlin Wall
1961
Vietnam war
1968
‘The Troubles’ in Northern Ireland and the IRA
1969
Gulf War
1991
UN resolution
2002
British troops leave Iraq
2011