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55 BCE
Julius Caesar conquers the Celts
The Celts were either killed,enslaved, or push out of Britain -
871
Alfred the Great
He bravely led his people against the Danes and by 878, he had achieved complete victory over the Viking invaders. -
1016
Canute the Dane
Canute the Dane ruled England,Denmark, and Norway as a great empire -
1066
Battle of Hastings
William the Conqueror sailed to England with an army of 10,000 men and met Harold's forces. -
1086
Domesday Book completed
The Domesday Book was a survey and record of all the property, tenants, landowners, and serfs -
1337
The Hundred Years War
A war which started on a dispute over the French throne -
1455
War of the Roses
Named because the Yorks used a white rose as their emblem and the Lancasters used a red rose as theirs -
1485
Henry VII
He became the first Tudor king of England. -
1509
Henry VIII
He became king at 18 years old. Later , the church named him "defender of the faith" for opposing Lutherans -
1531
The Convocation
It was when the King forced the English clergy, assembled in the the Convocation, to recognize him as "the single protector, the only supreme lord,and as far as is permitted by the law of Christ even supreme head" of the English church. -
1537
Edward VI
He became king when he was only 9 years old. -
1542
Mary Queen of Scots
She conceived a son, and had to flee to her cousin Queen Elizabeth hoping to find refuge. -
1553
Mary I
Queen Mary wanted to return the English nation to the Roman church. -
1558
Elizabeth I
People loved her for her remarkable character and extraordinary performance as ruler of England that she earned the affectionate nickname of Good Queen Bess -
Defeat of the Spanish Armada
The Spanish Armada consisted of 130 ships, 2,500 guns, and more than 30,000 men. -
James I
King James I had a very definite ideas about the divine rights of kings. -
Charles I
He forced citizens to give him "loans", and then imprisoned or drafted military services who refused to pay. -
English Civil War
The English Civil War began as a battle between the king and Parliament. -
1662
The monarchy was fully restored. -
The Plague
A disease that raged nowhere else worse than in London and killed more than half of the city's population -
The Great Fire of London
It was a fire that raged for three days uncontrollably. The city of London was reduced to ruins -
Glorious Revolution of 1688
Glorious Revolution of 1688 established once and for all in England the principle of government by consent.
