The Timeline
Eleventh Century
YEAR | MONARCH | POLITICAL/CONFLICTS | SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS | INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES | NOTABLE EVENTS |
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1066 | William the Conqueror | Battle of Hastings | |||
1086 | Domesday book completed | ||||
1087 | William II | ||||
1095 | First Crusade | ||||
1100 | Henry I |
Twelfth Century
YEAR | MONARCH | POLITICAL/CONFLICTS | SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS | INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES | NOTABLE EVENTS |
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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 |
Thirteenth Century
YEAR | MONARCH | POLITICAL/CONFLICTS | SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS | INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES | NOTABLE EVENTS |
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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 |
Fourteenth Century
YEAR | MONARCH | POLITICAL/CONFLICTS | SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS | INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES | NOTABLE EVENTS |
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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 |
Fifteenth Century
YEAR | MONARCH | POLITICAL/CONFLICTS | SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS | INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES | NOTABLE EVENTS |
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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 |
Sixteenth Century
YEAR | MONARCH | POLITICAL/CONFLICTS | SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS | INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES | NOTABLE EVENTS |
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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 |
Seventeenth Century
YEAR | MONARCH | POLITICAL/CONFLICTS | SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS | INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES | NOTABLE EVENTS | |
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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 |
Eighteenth Century
YEAR | MONARCH | POLITICAL/CONFLICTS | SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS | INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES | NOTABLE EVENTS | |
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1701 | Act of Settlement | |||||
1702 | Anne | |||||
1705 | Newcomen patents steam pump | |||||
1714 | George I | |||||
1715 | Jacobite Rebellion | |||||
1727 | George II | |||||
1733 | Kay's flying shuttle | |||||
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 | 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 |
Nineteenth Century
YEAR | MONARCH | POLITICAL/CONFLICTS | SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS | INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES | NOTABLE EVENTS |
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1807 | Abolition of Slavery Act | ||||
1820 | George IV | ||||
1830 | William IV | ||||
1833 | Slavery Abolition Act | ||||
1834 | Poor Law Amendment Act | ||||
1837 | Victoria | Civil Registration introduced | |||
1839 | Foundation of the anti-Corn Law League | Electric telegraph developed | |||
1841 | Census: 6th June | ||||
1851 | The Great Exhibition | Australian Gold Rush | Census: 30th March | ||
1854-1856 | The Crimean War | ||||
1855 | Civil Registration introduced in Scotland | ||||
1858 | Secular Court of Probate created | ||||
1861 | Census: 7th April | ||||
1861-1865 | American Civil War | Lancashire Cotton Famine | |||
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 |
Twentieth Century
YEAR | MONARCH | POLITICAL/CONFLICTS | SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS | INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES | NOTABLE EVENTS |
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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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[[Records Office Guide|Civil Registration introduced]]
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