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1
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10,000 BC

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Britain permanently separated from the continent by the Channel

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6,000 BC

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first farmers arrive in Britain

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3
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4,000 BC

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people learn to made bronze

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4
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Iron Age

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first coins minted in Britain

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5
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55 BC

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Julius Cesar invades Britain, unsuccessfully

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43 AD

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emperor Claudius invades Britain, successfully

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200s-300s

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first Christian communities appear in Britain

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410

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Romans leave Britain

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c. 600 - Anglo

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Saxon kingdoms are established in Britain

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10
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c. 600

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first missionaries come to Britain

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11
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789

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Viking invasions

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12
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1066

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Battle of Hastings, William (Duke of Normandy) vs. Harold (Anglo-Saxon king)

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13
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1215

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Magna Carta, King John

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14
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1284

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Statute of Rhuddlan, Wales annexed to England, Edward I

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1314

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Battle of Bannockburn (Scottish independence), Robert de Bruce vs. Edward II

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16
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1348

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Black Death plague

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17
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c. 1400

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official documents being written in English

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18
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c. 1400

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Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer

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19
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1415

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battle of Agincourt (100 Years War), Henry V vs. France

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20
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1450

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English army leaves France after battle of Agincourt

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21
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1455-1485

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War of the Roses, Henry Tudor (Lancaster) vs. Richard III (York)

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22
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1485

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battle of Bosworth Field, Henry Tudor (Lancaster) wins

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23
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1509-1547

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reign of Henry VIII

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24
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1558-1603

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reign of Elizabeth I

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1500s
Protestant ideas gradually gain strength in England
26
1560
authority of the Pope abolished in Scotland
27
1588
defeat of the Spanish Armada
28
1642-1646
English civil war
29
1649
Charles I's death
30
1653-1658
Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector
31
1656
first Jews come to Britain after Roman times
32
1660
Charles II crowned king
33
1665
the plague in London
34
1666
the Great Fire of London
35
1679
Habeas Corpus Act
36
1680-1720
Huguenots come to Britain
37
1688
Glorious Revolution
38
1689
Declaration of Rights, William of Orange and Mary
39
1695
newspapers allow to operate without a licence
40
1702-1714
reign of Queen Anne
41
1707
Acts of the Union, Scotland and England unite as a kingdom
42
1721-1742
Robert Walpole as Britain's first Prime Minister
43
1700s
Enlightenment in Britain
44
Late 1700s
first anti slavery groups, Quakers
45
1776
13 American colonies declared independence
46
1783
American colonist defeat British army
47
1700s-1800s
Industrial Revolution in Britain
48
1800-1801
Act of Union, Ireland unites with Great Britain
49
1805
Battle of Trafalgar, Admiral Nelson
50
1807
Slave Trade Act, trading slaves becomes illegal
51
1815
Battle of Waterloo, Duke of Wellington
52
1833
Emancipation Act, slavery is abolished
53
1837-1901
Queen Victoria reign
54
1851
Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, London
55
1853-1856
Crimean War
56
1865-1936
Rudyard Kipling
57
1899-1902
Boer War
58
1928
Women above 21 allowed to vote
59
1916
Battle of the Somme
60
1916
Easter Rising in Ireland
61
1918
end of WWI, 11th November
62
1922
Ireland becomes two countries
63
1922
BBC starts radio broadcasts
64
1936
BBC first regular television service
65
1939-1945
WWII
66
1940
Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister
67
1941
Germany invades Soviet Union
68
1944
D-Day, 6th June
69
1945
Allies defeat Germany, May
70
1945
Alexander Fleming receives Nobel prize in Medicine
71
1949
Ireland becomes a republic

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