100 KEY DATES. from the Knowing History Series: The Angles and Saxons arrive in England. 410 The Roman Army leaves Britain

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1 100 KEY DATES from the Knowing History Series: ANGLO-SAXONS TO QUEEN VICTORIA The Angles and Saxons arrive in England 410 The Roman Army leaves Britain 597 Augustine arrives in England 731 Bede completes the Ecclesiastical History of the English People 793 Vikings attack the monastery on Lindisfarne 865 The invasion of the Great Heathen Army 878 Alfred the Great s victory at the Battle of Edington 1016 The Viking ruler Canute becomes King of England 1069 The Harrying of the North 1120 Sinking of the White Ship 1170 Thomas Becket is murdered 937 Æthelstan s victory at the Battle of Brunanburh 1066 The Battle of Hastings 1086 William commissions the Domesday Book 1135 The start of the Anarchy 1204 Eleanor of Aquitaine dies

2 1215 King John signs the Magna Carta 1283 Edward I conquers Wales 1305 Edward I executes William Wallace 1348 The Black Death hits England 1415 Henry V wins the Battle of Agincourt 1471 Edward IV wins back his throne at the Battle of Barnet, and Henry VI dies 1485 Henry Tudor wins the Battle of Bosworth and is crowned King Henry VII 1520 The Field of the Cloth of Gold 1534 Act of Supremacy 1554 Mary I marries Philip II of Spain 1563 The first of the Elizabethan Poor Laws is passed 1580 Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the world 1588 The Spanish Armada sets sail for England 1600 East India Company granted a Royal Charter 1326 Isabella of France deposes Edward II 1381 The Peasants Revolt 1461 The Yorkists defeat the Lancastrians at the Battle of Towton 1483 King Richard III seizes the English throne following the death of his brother 1509 Henry VIII becomes King of England 1533 Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn 1536 The dissolution of the Monasteries begins 1558 Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England 1576 England s first public theatre is built in Shoreditch 1587 Mary Queen of Scots is executed 1590 Shakespeare s first play, Henry VI: Part I, performed 1603 James I becomes King of England

3 1605 The Gunpowder Plot almost destroys Parliament 1611 Publication of the King James Bible 1642 The English Civil War breaks out 1648 Parliament wins the Second Civil War 1649 Trial and execution of Charles I 1660 Charles II is crowned King, beginning the Restoration 1666 The Great Fire of London 1606 Virginia Company granted a Royal Charter 1629 The start of the eleven-years tyranny 1645 The Battle of Naseby 1653 Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector 1665 The Great Plague hits London 1672 Royal African Company is founded 1687 Isaac Newton publishes the Principia Mathematica 1688 The Glorious Revolution 1689 The Bill of Rights is signed 1714 The Hanoverian Succession 1739 The highwayman Dick Turpin is hanged in York 1746 The Battle of Culloden 1756 The beginning of the Seven Years War 1765 The Treaty of Allahabad 1707 Act of Union 1721 Robert Walpole becomes the first Prime Minister 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie leads a Jacobite Uprising 1755 Samuel Johnson publishes his dictionary of the English language 1764 Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny

4 1775 Arkwright opens the Cromford Mill 1775 The American Revolution begins in Lexington 1782 Parliament votes to end war in America 1776 Watt builds his first functioning steam engine 1787 Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade formed 1788 The First Fleet of 11 convict ships reaches Australia 1801 The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland is created 1811 First Luddite attacks take place in Nottingham 1819 Peterloo Massacre takes place in Manchester 1798 United Irishmen Uprising takes place 1807 Slave Trade Act 1815 Napoleon is defeated at the Battle of Waterloo 1830 Opening of the Liverpool to Manchester railway 1829 Metropolitan Police Act 1832 Parliament passes the Great Reform Act 1833 Slavery Abolition Act 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 Tolpuddle Martyrs are transported to Australia

5 1837 Victoria becomes Queen of England 1842 The First Opium War ends 1851 The Great Exhibition is held in London 1859 Brunel s SS Great Eastern is launched 1875 Parliament passes the Public Health Act 1882 British Army occupies Egypt 1838 The People s Charter is published 1845 The Irish Potato Famine begins 1857 The Indian Rebellion begins 1866 Telegraph wire is laid beneath the Atlantic 1876 Queen Victoria becomes Empress of India 1884 Parliament passes Gladstone s Third Reform Act 1899 The Start of the Boer War 1901 Death of Queen Victoria A knowledge-based programme for Key Stage 3. A knowledge-based programme for Key Stage 3.