| 3100–2200 BC | Stonehenge |
| 43 AD | The Roman invasion of Britain |
| 597 | Saint Augustine Arrives in Britain |
| 871 | Alfred the Great Becomes King of Wessex |
| 1066 | The Battle of Hastings |
| 1215 | Signing of Magna Carta |
| 1381 | The Peasants’ Revolt |
| 1387 | Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales |
| 1415 | The Battle of Agincourt |
| 1485 | The Battle of Bosworth |
| 1536 | The Dissolution of the Monasteries |
| 1564 | The Birth of William Shakespeare |
| 1577–1580 | Sir Francis Drake and the Circumnavigation of the Globe |
| 1588 | The Spanish Armada |
| 1605 | The Gunpowder Plot |
| 1611 | The Authorised Version of the Bible is published |
| 1620 | The Voyage of the Pilgrim Fathers |
| 1645 | The Battle of Naseby |
| 1649 | The Execution of Charles I |
| 1688–1689 | The Glorious Revolution and the Bill of Rights |
| 1694 | The Foundation of the Bank of England |
| 1704 | The Battle of Blenheim |
| 1707 | The Act of Union |
| 1711–1720 | The South Sea Bubble |
| 1714 | The Longitude Act |
| 1721 | Sir Robert Walpole Becomes Prime Minister |
| 1757 | The Battle of Plassey |
| 1769 | James Watt Patents his Steam Engine Condenser |
| 1776 | Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations is published |
| 1781 | The Surrender of the British Army at Yorktown, Virginia |
| 1805 | The Battle of Trafalgar |
| 1815 | The Battle of Waterloo |
| 1829 | The Metropolitan Police Act |
| 1832 | The Great Reform Act |
| 1833 | The Abolition of Slavery |
| 1842 | The Afghanistan Massacre |
| 1855 | The Discovery of the Victoria Falls by David Livingstone |
| 1859 | Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species is published |
| 1863 | The Football Association publishes ‘The Laws of Football’ |
| 1886 | The Irish Home Rule Bill |
| 1903 | The Foundation of the Women’s Social and Political Union |
| 1916 | The Battle of the Somme |
| 1927 | The Foundation of the British Broadcasting Corporation |
| 1930 | Frank Whittle Designs the First Turbo Jet Engine |
| 1940 | The Battle of Britain |
| 1947 | The Partition of India |
| 1948 | The Arrival of the SS Empire Windrush at Tilbury Docks |
| 1948 | The Foundation of the National Health Service |
| 1973 | Britain Signs the Treaty of Rome |
| 1982 | The Battle of Goose Green |
