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Monarchy

Timeline

407

The Romans leave Britain

450

Anglo-Saxon invasions

560

Ethelbert, king of Kent

580

Bertha, queen of Kent

593

Redwald, king of East Anglia

757

Offa, king of Mercia

789

Viking invasions

871

Alfred the Great

878

Battle of Edington

899

Edward the Elder, Athelstan, Edmund, Eadred, Eadwig

959

Edgar

975

Edward the Martyr

978

Ethelred II the Unready

Emma

991

Battle of Maldon

1016

Cnut

1018

Godwin, earl of Wessex

1035

Harold I Harefoot, Harthacnut

1042

Edward the Confessor

1045

Edith

1066

Harold II Godwinson

Battle of Hastings

William I the Conqueror

1087

William II Rufus

1100

Henry I

1135

Stephen

1141

Matilda

1154

Henry II

Eleanor of Aquitaine

1162

Thomas Becket

1189

Richard I Lionheart

1199

John

1215

Magna Carta

1216

Henry III

1258

Provisions of Oxford

1264

Simon de Montfort

1265

Battle of Evesham

1272

Edward I

1307

Edward II

1327

Isabella of France

Edward III

1346

Battle of Crécy

1377

Richard II

1399

Henry IV

1403

Battle of Shrewsbury

1413

Henry V

1415

Battle of Agincourt

1422

Henry VI

1443

Margaret Beaufort

1445

Margaret of Anjou

1461

Edward IV

1464

Elizabeth Woodville

1471

Battle of Tewkesbury

The difference between an absolute and limited monarchy

1473

Thomas Wolsey

1483

Richard III

1485

Battle of Bosworth Field

Henry VII

1489

Thomas Cranmer

1509

Six wives of Henry VIII

Henry VIII

1512

Thomas Cromwell

1518

Sir Thomas More

1520

Field of the Cloth of Gold

1521

Assertio Septum Sacramentorum

1525

The Amicable Grant

1531

Convocation of the English Church

1532

Invicta Veritas

1536

Pilgrimage of Grace

1547

Edward VI

1549

Book of Common Prayer

1553

Mary I

1554

Philip II of Spain

1556

A Short Treatise on Political Power

1558

Elizabeth I

1567

James VI of Scotland, I of England

1573

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

1605

The Gunpowder Plot

1625

Henrietta Maria

Charles I

1628

Petition of Right

1640

Earl of Shaftesbury

1641

The Grand Remonstrance

1642

English Civil Wars

1649

Charles II

1651

Battle of Worcester

1653

Oliver Cromwell

1657

Richard Cromwell

1660

Declaration of Breda

1665

Anglo-Dutch Wars

Great Plague

1666

Great Fire of London

1670

Treaty of Dover

1672

Declarations of Indulgence

1673

Test Acts

1678

Titus Oates

John & Sarah Churchill

1685

James II

Monmouth Rebellion

1689

William and Mary

Bill of Rights

1690

Battle of the Boyne

1701

James Francis Edward Stuart (James III)

Sir Robert Walpole

1702

Anne

1704

Battle of Blenheim

1707

Act of Union 1707

1713

South Sea Bubble

Peace of Utrecht

1714

George I

1720

Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie)

1727

George II

1735

William Pitt the Elder

1746

Battle of Culloden

1760

George III

1765

Stamp Act

1771

Sir Walter Scott

1774

Summary View of the Rights of British Americans

1776

US Declaration of Independence

1781

Battle of Yorktown

1790

Reflections on the Revolution in France

1795

Caroline of Brunswick

1815

Battle of Waterloo

1819

Peterloo Massacre

1820

George IV

1830

William IV

1832

Reform Act

1837

Victoria

1840

Albert

1893

Cosmo Gordon Lang

1901

Edward VII

1904

Entente Cordiale

1910

George V

1911

Parliament Act 1911

1917

Proclamation of 1917

1922

John Reith

1936

Edward VIII

George VI

Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

Wallis Simpson

1947

Philip Mountbatten

1948

Prince Charles

1952

Elizabeth II

1981

Diana Spencer

1985

Camilla Parker Bowles

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