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Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Introduction

English History

10,000 BC | Prehistoric England

3,000 BC | Stonehenge

AD 43 | The Romans

AD 61 | Boudicca

410 | Legend of King Arthur

400s | Anglo-Saxons

597 | The Arrival of Christianity

793 | Viking Raids

899 | Alfred the Great

937 | Rex Angloram

1042 | Edward the Confessor

1066 | King Harold

1066 | Battle of Hastings

1060s and 70s | Norman Conquest

1086 | Domesday Book

1170 | Murder of Thomas Becket

1204 | Eleanor of Aquitaine

1215 | King John and the Magna Carta

1200s | Robin Hood

1265 | The first Parliament

1283 | The Conquest of Wales

1337 | The Hundred Years War

1348 | Order of the Garter

1348 | The Black Death

1381 | The Peasants’ Revolt

1387 | The Canterbury Tales

1415 | Agincourt

1459 | The Wars of the Roses

1483 | The Princes in the Tower

1485 | The Battle of Bosworth Field

1509 | Henry VIII

1534 | Anne Boleyn

1534 | The English Reformation

1547 | Henry VIII’s death

1553 | Mary I and the Counter-Reformation

1558 | Elizabeth I

1580 | Sir Francis Drake

1587 | Mary Queen of Scots

1588 | The Spanish Armada

1590 | Shakespeare

1603 | King James VI and I

1605 | The Gunpowder Plot

1629 | Charles I and Parliament

1642 | The English Civil War

1649 | Regicide

1649 | Cromwell’s Commonwealth

1660| Restoration

1666 | Great Fire of London

1687 | Sir Isaac Newton

1688 | The Glorious Revolution

1707 | The Act of Union

1714 | The House of Hanover

1721 | Britain’s First Prime Minister

1739 | Highwaymen

1740 | Rule, Britannia!

1745 | Jacobite Uprising

1755 | Dr Johnson’s Dictionary

1763 | The Seven Years War

1700s | Food and Empire

1770 | Captain Cook and Australia

1772 | The Slave Trade

1775 | Britain’s First Factories

1776 | American Revolution

1776 | Steam Engine

1788 | Mad King George

1791 | Rights of Man

1805 | The Battle of Trafalgar

1813 | Jane Austen

1815 | Duke of Wellington

1829 | The Metropolitan Police Force

1830 | The Railway Age

1833 | Child Labour

1833 | Abolition of the Slave Trade

1837 | Queen Victoria

1846 | The Workhouse

1851 | Industrial Cities

1851 | The Great Exhibition

1854 | Florence Nightingale

1859 | On the Origin of Species

1859 | Brunel

1859 | Big Ben

1863 | Association Football

1870 | Charles Dickens

1888 | Jack the Ripper

1899 | The Boer War

1912 | Titanic

1913 | Emily Davison

1914 | The First World War

1916 | The First Day of the Somme

1918 | Armistice Day

1922 | The BBC

1926 | General Strike

1936 | Abdication

1940 | Dunkirk

1940 | The Battle of Britain

1941 | The Home Front

1945 | VE Day

1948 | The NHS

1948 | The Empire Windrush

1953 | Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

1956 | Suez Crisis

1966 | World Cup Win

1960s | Beatlemania

1979 | Thatcher Becomes Prime Minister

1989 | Invention of the World Wide Web

1994 | Opening of the Channel Tunnel

1997 | Death of Princess Diana

1997 | Harry Potter

2012 | London Olympics

2016 | Brexit

Conclusion

Index

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English History: People, places and events that built a country

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