England

AP Euro Great Britain

By margaret.dauria
  • Jun 15, 1215

    Magna Carta signed

  • May 25, 1453

    Fall of Constantinople

    Technical course start
  • Oct 19, 1453

    100 Years War ends

  • Period: Jan 1, 1455 to Dec 31, 1485

    Wars of the Roses

    A series of English Civil Wars
  • Period: Jan 1, 1483 to Dec 31, 1485

    Reign of Richard III

    House of York
  • Jan 1, 1485

    Henry VII wins Battle of Bosworth

    Richard III is killed, Henry VII becomes the first Tudor king
  • Jan 1, 1509

    Three big things

    Henry VII dies and Henry VIII takes over
    Henry VIII marries Catherine of Aragon
    Catherine of Aragon births Mary I
  • Period: Dec 14, 1509 to Dec 14, 1547

    Henry VIII

  • Jan 1, 1533

    Divorce/Elizabeth

    Henry VIII divorces Catherine of Aragon andmarries Anne Boleyn, who gives birth to Elizabeth I this same year! Whoa!
  • Jan 1, 1534

    Church of England

    Henry VIII makes himself head of the Church of England
  • Jan 1, 1536

    Anne to Jane

    Anne Boleyn is beheaded, Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour, who births Edward VI
  • Period: Jan 1, 1536 to Dec 31, 1540

    Henry VIII closes the monasteries and confiscates their property

  • Jan 1, 1537

    Jane Seymour

  • Jan 1, 1540

    Anne to Kathryn

    Henry marries Anne of Cleves, then divorces her to marry Kathryn Howard
  • Jan 1, 1542

    Kathryn Howard beheaded

  • Jan 1, 1543

    Henry marries Catherine Parr

  • Period: Dec 14, 1547 to Dec 14, 1553

    Edward VI

  • Jan 1, 1549

    Common Book of Prayer

    Imposed by the Act of Uniformity
  • Jan 1, 1553

    Edward VI dies, Mary I queen

  • Period: Dec 14, 1553 to Dec 14, 1558

    Mary I

  • Period: Jan 1, 1555 to Dec 31, 1558

    Persecutes of Protestants

    Queen Mary persecutes Protestants. 300 people burned to death for 'heresy'
  • Jan 1, 1558

    Mary dies, Elizabeth queen

  • Period: Dec 14, 1558 to

    Elizabeth I

  • Jan 1, 1570

    Pope excommunicates Queen Elizabeth

  • Period: Jan 1, 1577 to Dec 31, 1580

    Sir Francis Drake sails around the world

  • Mary Queen of Scots beheaded

    Long May She (not) Reign

  • SPANISH ARMADA DEFEATED

    BIG HUGE DEFEAT THEY SHOULD HAVE LOST THANK GOD FOR THE ENGLISH CHANNEL

  • Poor Law is passed

    People made to pay a rate to support the poor

  • TUDOR TO STUART

    Queen Elizabeth dies, and James I takes over as king. He is a Stuart from Scotland.
  • Period: to

    James I

  • Gunpowder Plot

    Catholic Conspiracy to blow up Parliament is discovered. REMEMBER REMEMBER THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER

  • Jamestown founded

  • King James Bible published

  • Bacon-"Novum Organum"

  • James I dies, Charles I king

  • Period: to

    Charles I

  • Two Big Events

    -William Harvey publishes discovery of the circulation of blood
    -Petition of Right presented to the king by Parliament

  • today hello there

  • Period: to

    Eleven Years Tyranny

    Charles I rules without Parliament
  • Period: to

    ENGLISH CIVIL WAR

    1642-START
    1642-Isaac Newton is born
  • Period: to

    SECOND ENGLISH CIVIL WAR

    Charles I not happy, starts civil war with help of the Scots. (Battle of Preston-hope is lost)
    1648-Pride's Purge-Presbyterians removed from Parliament
    1649 Charles I beheaded, Stuarts pounce
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    CROMWELL AND COMMONWEALTH

  • Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes published

  • "Leviathan"

  • Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England

  • Oliver Cromwell dies

    Son Richard is Lord Protector of England now

  • Richard Cromwell resigns

    Now known as 'Tumbledown Dick'

  • Charles II becomes king, kills dad haters

  • Period: to

    Charles II

  • Act of Uniformity passed, Royal Society founded

  • Boyle's Law

  • THE PLAGUE STRIKES BACK

  • Hudson's Bay Company forms

  • Titus Oates claims there is a 'Popish plot'

    The whole thing is a scam against Charles II for $$$$$$$$

  • Act of Habeas Corpus outlawed

    Now you need a trial by jury

  • CHARLES II DIES, JAMES II KING

    Also Duke of Monmouth (illegitimate son of Charles II) leads unsuccessful rebellion in SW England
  • Period: to

    James II

  • Principia Mathematica published by Newton

    PHYSICS IS BORN AWWWWW YAYAYAYAYAY

  • Newton publishes the Principia

  • GLORIOUS REVOLUTION

    James II flees when no one meets him on the battlefield. William and Mary called in from the Netherlands. They are the new monarchs.
  • Period: to

    William and Mary

  • ENGLISH BILL OF RIGHTS PASSED

    Go William and Mary!!!!!!

  • Toleration Act

  • Locke "Two Treatises of Government"

  • Bank of England

  • Lapse of the Licensing Act

  • Act of Settlement

  • Act of Union

  • Period: to

    George I

  • Period: to

    "Walpole"

  • "Wealth of Nations" Adam Smith

  • Reflections on the Revolution in France, Burke

  • Burke-"Reflections on the Revolution in France"