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By FLORENCIAFORTE
  • Period: 43 to 410

    Roman Occupation

  • 400

    St Patrick converted IRELAND to Christianity.

  • Period: 410 to 1016

    Anglo-Saxon Settlement

  • 563

    St Columba converted SCOTLAND to Christianity.

  • 597

    The Pope sent St Augustine to convert Kent

  • 600

    St Augustine founded a monastery in Canterbury.

  • 635

    St Aidan converted NORTHUMBRIA to Christianity.

  • 664

    SYNOD OF WHITBY

    King Oswy of Northumbria favored the ROMAN STREAM
  • 669

    Theodore of Tarsus begun organizing the church.

  • Period: 716 to 757

    Æthelbald of Mercia

  • Period: 757 to 796

    Offa

    Æthelbald's successor. Offa was the most powerful English king before Alfred.
    Offa’s most enduring historical achievement was Offa’s Dyke, a gigantic earthwork roughly establishing the border between England
    and Wales.
  • 790

    First record of Danish in England (First Danish "invasion")

  • 830

    Egbert as Bretwalda

    All England acknowledged Egbert as Bretwalda or Overlord (supreme ruler)
  • 854

    The fall of the Danish royal dynasty

    That is why from the 850 onwards there were many invasions in Europe
  • Period: 866 to 871

    Æthelred I

  • Period: 871 to 899

    Alfred "the Great"

  • 878

    Battle of Ethandun: Danelaw

  • Period: 899 to 924

    Edward “the elder”

  • Period: 924 to 940

    Athelstan “the glorious”

    The royal house of Wessex was the royal house of England
  • Period: 939 to 946

    Edmund

  • Period: 959 to 975

    Edgar “the peaceable”

  • Period: 978 to 1013

    Æthelred II “the unready”

  • Period: 1016 to 1035

    Canute “the king of Denmark”

  • Period: 1016 to 1066

    Second Danish Invation

  • Period: 1042 to 1066

    Edward “the Confessor”

  • 1066

    The Norman Conquest

    Carried out by William
  • Period: 1066 to 1087

    William I "the Conqueror"

  • Period: 1066 to 1290

    Early Middle Ages

  • Period: 1087 to 1100

    William II "Rufus"

  • Period: 1100 to 1135

    Henry I

  • 1106

    Battle of Tinchebray

    Robert was his brother's prisoner (Henry I)
  • Period: 1135 to 1154

    Stephen

  • Period: 1154 to 1189

    Henry II

  • Period: 1189 to 1199

    Richard I "the Lionheart"

  • Period: 1199 to 1216

    John

  • 1215

    John was forced to sign the Great Charter / Magna Carta

  • Period: 1216 to 1272

    Henry III

  • 1258

    Henry III was attacked by Simon of Montfort

  • 1265

    Simon of Montfort summouned the Parliament

  • Period: 1272 to 1307

    Edward I

  • 1278

    Statute of Gluocester or Quo Warranto

    by Edward I
  • 1290

    The Statute of Quia Emptores

    by Edward I
  • Period: 1290 to 1485

    Late Middle Ages

  • 1295

    Edward I's model Parliament

  • Period: 1307 to 1327

    Edward II

  • 1327

    Riot at Bury St. Edmunds and the abbot and monks were carried off to prison

  • Period: 1327 to 1377

    Edward III

  • Period: 1337 to 1453

    Hundred Years War

  • 1362

    English as the official language

  • Period: 1377 to 1399

    Richard II

  • 1381

    Peasants' revolt

  • Period: 1399 to 1413

    Henry IV

  • Period: 1413 to 1422

    Henry V

  • Period: 1422 to 1461

    Henry VI

  • Period: 1453 to 1485

    War of the Roses

  • Period: 1461 to 1483

    Edward IV

  • 1483

    Edward V

  • Period: 1483 to 1485

    Richard III

  • Period: 1485 to 1509

    Henry VII

  • Oct 12, 1492

    Discovery of America

  • 1496

    The Intercursus Magnus

  • Period: 1509 to 1547

    Henry III

  • Period: 1547 to 1553

    Edward VI

  • 1548

    Law

    Makes it illegal for workmen to form unions in order to improve the conditions of labour
  • Period: 1553 to 1558

    Mary I

  • Period: 1558 to

    Elizabeth I

  • May 16, 1567

    Mary Stuart arrives to England

  • 1569

    The Revolt of the North

  • Treaty of Joinville

  • Treaty of Nonsuch

  • Execution of Mary Queen of Scots

  • The defeat of the Spanish Armada