The Timeline

From the Family Tree Forum Reference Library
Page being edited by Elizabeth Herts, Delightful Dukkie and Jill from the A272


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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
1087 William II
1100 Henry I


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Twelfth Century

YEAR MONARCH POLITICAL/CONFLICTS SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES NOTABLE EVENTS
1135 Stephen
1141 Matilda
1154 Henry II
1170 Henry the Young King
1189 Richard I
1199 John


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Thirteenth Century

YEAR MONARCH POLITICAL/CONFLICTS SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES NOTABLE EVENTS
1216 Henry III
1272 Edward I



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Fourteenth Century

YEAR MONARCH POLITICAL/CONFLICTS SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES NOTABLE EVENTS
1307 Edward II
1327 Edward III
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
1461 Edward IV
1470 Henry VI
1471 Edward IV
1483 Edward V
1483 Richard III
1485 Henry VII



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Sixteenth Century

YEAR MONARCH POLITICAL/CONFLICTS SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES NOTABLE EVENTS
1509 Henry VIII
1538 Parish Registers started
1547 Edward VI
1553 Jane
1553 Mary
1558 Elizabeth I
1588 Spanish Armada
1598 Bishops' Transcripts introduced



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Seventeenth Century

YEAR MONARCH POLITICAL/CONFLICTS SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES NOTABLE EVENTS
1603 James I
1625 Charles I
1642-1651 English Civil Wars
January 1649 Regicide of Charles I
1649-1660 Interregnum Possible gaps in Parish records
1653 Oliver Cromwell
1658 Richard Cromwell
1660 Charles II
1665 Great Plague
1666 Great Fire of London
1685 James II
1689 William and Mary



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Eighteenth Century

YEAR MONARCH POLITICAL/CONFLICTS SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES NOTABLE EVENTS
1702 Anne
1714 George I
1727 George II
1752 Gregorian calendar introduced
1753 Marriage Act
1760 George III



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Nineteenth Century

YEAR MONARCH POLITICAL/CONFLICTS SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES NOTABLE EVENTS
1807 Abolition of Slavery Act
1820 George IV
1830 William IV
1837 Victoria Civil Registration introduced
1841 Census: 6th June
1851 The Great Exhibition Australian Gold Rush Census: 30th March
1855 Civil Registration introduced in Scotland
1861 Census: 7th April
1861-1865 American Civil War Lancashire Cotton Famine
1870 Education Act
1871 Census: 2nd April
1881 Census: 3rd April
1891 Census: 5th April



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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
1936 George VI
1939-1945 World War Two
1952 Elizabeth II



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Adding an event to the timeline

It will sometimes be necessary to make a value judgement into which column something will fit. If that column is already "full", then another row can be added.


The columns will remain the same width, and any long text will wrap onto extra lines automatically. It will also be vertically aligned.


Please keep the text as short as possible - if you feel that more information is needed, it is usually possible to add a hyperlink to a website such as Wikipedia!!


If there is a relevant page elsewhere in The Wiki, please use an internal link.


Click on [edit]

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You will see the code:

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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

Timeline3.jpg [http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/goldrush/ Australian Gold Rush]


Timeline4.jpg [[Records Office Guide|Civil Registration introduced]]


For more information about wiki coding please see Minibad.jpg The Wiki Guide How to use The Wiki.



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