The Timeline

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Our ancestors (like us) were shaped by the world they lived in and the sudden movement of a family, for example, from their birthplace to another part of the country could be explained by what was going on. We hope that this timeline will help you to put the personal life of your ancestors in context with the social and political situation of the time.

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Eleventh Century

YEAR	MONARCH	POLITICAL/CONFLICTS	SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS	INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES	NOTABLE EVENTS
1066	William the Conqueror	Battle of Hastings
1086		Domesday book completed
1087	William II
1095		First Crusade
1100	Henry I

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Twelfth Century

YEAR	MONARCH	POLITICAL/CONFLICTS	SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS	INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES	NOTABLE EVENTS
1135	Stephen
1141	Matilda	Civil War
1147		Second Crusade
1154	Henry II
1170	Henry the Young King
1189	Richard I	Third Crusade
1199	John
1204		Fourth Crusade
1215		Signing of Magna Carta

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Thirteenth Century

YEAR	MONARCH	POLITICAL/CONFLICTS	SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS	INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES	NOTABLE EVENTS
1216	Henry III	Fifth Crusade
1248		Sixth Crusade
1264		Battle of Lewes
1270		Seventh Crusade
1272	Edward I
1277		English conquest of Wales begins
1290		Jews expelled from England
1299					Ottoman Empire begins

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Fourteenth Century

YEAR	MONARCH	POLITICAL/CONFLICTS	SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS	INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES	NOTABLE EVENTS
1307	Edward II
1327	Edward III
1338		Start of 100 Years War
1346		Battle of Crecy
1348			Black Death reaches Europe
1356		Battle of Poitiers
1377	Richard II
1399	Henry IV

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Fifteenth Century

YEAR	MONARCH	POLITICAL/CONFLICTS	SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS	INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES	NOTABLE EVENTS
1413	Henry V
1422	Henry VI
1454				Invention of movable type
1455		Start of the Wars of the Roses
1455		First Battle of St Albans
1461	Edward IV
1470	Henry VI
1471	Edward IV	Battle of Barnet
1476				Caxton sets up first English printing press
1483	Edward V
1483	Richard III
1485		Battle of Bosworth Field			Richard III died in battle
1485	Henry VII

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Sixteenth Century

YEAR	MONARCH	POLITICAL/CONFLICTS	SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS	INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES	NOTABLE EVENTS
1509	Henry VIII
1536		Execution of Anne Boleyn
1538					Parish Registers started
1547	Edward VI
1553	Jane
1553	Mary
1558	Elizabeth I
1588		Spanish Armada
1598					Bishops' Transcripts introduced
1600					East India Company founded
1601		Poor Law Act

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Seventeenth Century

YEAR	MONARCH	POLITICAL/CONFLICTS	SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS	INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES	NOTABLE EVENTS
1603	James I
1605		Gunpowder Plot
1607		Ulster colonized by Protestant settlers
1611			Authorized Version of Bible
1612		Henry Prince of Wales died of typhoid
1620					Pilgrim Fathers settle in New England
1625	Charles I
1627		England goes to war with France
1641		Star Chamber and Court of High Commission abolished
1642 to 1651		English Civil Wars
January 1649	Regicide of Charles I	England declared a republic
1649 to 1660	Interregnum				Possible gaps in Parish records
1649		Irish royalists defeated at Wexford and the Siege of Drogheda
1650		Scots royalists defeated at Dunbar
1651		Scots royalists defeated at Worcester			Charles II flees into exile
1653	Oliver Cromwell
1658	Richard Cromwell				Oliver Cromwell dies
1660	Charles II				Samuel Pepys begins diary
1665			Great Plague
1666			Great Fire of London
1667			John Milton writes "Paradise Lost"
1670		Secret Treaty of Dover
1678		Popish plot fabricated by Titus Oates	"Pilgrim's Progress" by John Bunyan
1679		Habeas Corpus Act
1685	James II	Battle of Sedgmoor	Edict of Nantes revoked and many Huguenots settle in England
1688		The Glorious Revolution
1689	William and Mary		Freedom of worship for Protestant dissenters
1692		Glencoe Massacre
1694	Death of Mary; William rules alone		Foundation of the Bank of England

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Eighteenth Century

YEAR	MONARCH	POLITICAL/CONFLICTS	SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS	INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES	NOTABLE EVENTS
1701		Act of Settlement
1702	Anne	War of Spanish Succession starts	The Daily Courant published - first daily newspaper
1703
1704		Battle of Blenheim
1705				Newcomen patents steam pump
1707		Act of Union
1714	George I	End of the War of Spanish Succession
1715		Jacobite Rebellion
1716		The Septennial Act (General Elections to be held every 7 years)
1717
1718
1719			"Robinson Crusoe" published
1720			South Sea Bubble burst
1721		Robert Walpole becomes the first prime minister
1722					Death of Duke of Marlborough
1726			"Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift published		Death of Sophia Dorothea, wife of George I
1727	George II				Death of Sir Isaac Newton
1733				Kay's flying shuttle
1736			Witchcraft finally abolished as a crime
1737					Death of Queen Caroline
1738			Methodism begins
1739		War of Jenkins Ear
1740					War of the Austrian Succession
1745		2nd Jacobite rebellion
1746		Battle of Culloden
1750			London earth tremors cause panic
1752					Gregorian calendar introduced
1753					Marriage Act
1755		War with France
1760	George III
1763			August hailstorms ruin Sussex harvest
1768			Royal Academy of Arts founded	Spinning jenny
1770		Lord North becomes Prime Minister			Cook charts New South Wales
1775		American War of Independence
1776				Bridgewater canal completed	American Declaration of Independence
1778				Bramah's flushing watercloset patented. First iron bridge built
1779				Crompton's Mule
1785				Cartwright's Power Loom
1789					French Revolution
1780		4th Anglo-Dutch war	Gordon Riots in London
1788					Settlement of Australia by Britons begins
1793		War with France
1796				Grand Junction (Union) Canal opens Jenner develops smallpox vaccine

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Nineteenth Century

YEAR	MONARCH	POLITICAL/CONFLICTS	SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS	INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES	NOTABLE EVENTS
1801				Regents Canal opens
1803		War with France
1805		Battle of Trafalgar
1807		Abolition of Slavery Act
1820	George IV
1825				First railway, Stockton-Darlington
1829			Metropolitan Police established
1830	William IV
1833		Slavery Abolition Act
1834		Poor Law Amendment Act
1837	Victoria			Electric Telegraph invented	Civil Registration introduced
1838				Daguerrotype photographical process
1839		Foundation of the anti-Corn Law League
1841				London-Brighton railway completed	Census: 6th June
1847				First use of chloroform in childbirth
1851			The Great Exhibition	Australian Gold Rush	Census: 30th March
1854-1856		The Crimean War
1854				John Snow discovers cause of cholera
1855					Civil Registration introduced in Scotland
1856			Crinoline becomes popular
1857					Matrimonial Causes Act
1858					Secular Court of Probate created
1861					Census: 7th April
1861-1865		American Civil War	Lancashire Cotton Famine
1863			Formation of Football Association
1870		Education Act
1871					Census: 2nd April
1880-1881		First Boer War
1881					Census: 3rd April
1891					Census: 5th April
1899-1902		Second Boer War

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Twentieth Century

YEAR	MONARCH	POLITICAL/CONFLICTS	SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS	INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES	NOTABLE EVENTS
1901	Edward VII
1910	George V
1914-1918		World War One
1918		Qualification of Women Act			First opportunity for women to vote
1936	George VI
1939-1945		World War Two
1952	Elizabeth II

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Adding an event to the timeline

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Adding an event

Count along the row and just type in the spaces - be careful to leave || in between each item.

| DATE || MONARCH || type in here || type in here || type in here || type in here

Adding a new row

Each row in the list needs:

|-valign="top"

| DATE || MONARCH || type in here || type in here || type in here || type in here

N.B. One | at the beginning of the line

N.B. Nothing at the end of the line

Adding hyperlinks

[http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/goldrush/ Australian Gold Rush]

[[Records Office Guide|Civil Registration introduced]]

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