HISTORY OF ENGLAND timeline.

Period: 1066 to 1087

William I (The Conqueror) kingdom

he defeated the Anglo-Saxon's king and conquered the South West England. He redact the Domesday Book, which contained the necessary information to collect the gelds or property taxes and also for give to the king a detailed knowledge.
Period: 1087 to 1100

William II (Rufus) kingdom
Period: 1100 to 1135

Henry I kingdom
Period: 1154 to 1189

Henry II kingdom
- reduce the power of barons and the power of Church;
- introduce the Scutage (the knights pay a sum of money instead of giving military service and the king, with those money could pay mercenaries);
- introduce the Common Law, a system of law based on costums, comparisons, previous cases and decision;
- he put Thomas Becket and murdered him when he became an opponent of him.
Period: 1189 to 1199

Richard I (coeur of Lion) kingdom

He fought in the Third Cursade but when he was away his brother tried to usurpe his throne.
Period: 1199 to 1216

Jhon (The Bad King) Kingdom
- he was a cowardly and a reprenshible monarch;
- the difence of the French territories was ineffective and there was a costant collection of taxes who took the king to sign the Magna Charta.
1215

Magna Charta

The clauses were indictments against Jhon's rule. It asked for a swift of justice and scutage limitation. Promised freedom to all the people and protected the rights of ordinary people. A committe of 25 barons with a mandate to wage war on the King if he failed.
Period: 1216 to 1272

Henry III kingdom

he started to create a structure of permanent control over the king's polices.
Period: 1272 to 1307

Edward I kingdom

he create the model of parliament
1295

the Model of Parliament

It included the representative of barons, the clergy, two kinghts, from each country and two citizens from each town.
Period: 1307 to 1327

Edward II kingdom
Period: 1327 to 1377

Edward III kingdom
1337

Edward III started the Hundred Years War agains France

The Hundred Years' War was a series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453 by the House of Plantagenet against the House of Valois, over the succession to the French throne. Each side drew many allies into the war. It was one of the most notable conflicts of the Middle Ages, in which five generations of kings from two rival dynasties fought for the throne of the largest kingdom in Western Europe.
1348

The Black Death

The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people in Eurasia and peaking in Europe in the years 1346–1353.[1][2][3] The bacterium Yersinia pestis, resulting in several forms of plague, is believed to have been the cause.[4] The plague created a series of religious, social, and economic upheavals, which had profound effects on the course of European history.
Period: 1377 to 1399

Richard I kingdom
1381

Peasant's Revolt

The Peasants' Revolt was a major uprising across large parts of England in 1381. The revolt had various causes, including the socio-economic and political tensions generated by the Black Death in the 1340s, the high taxes resulting from the conflict with France during the Hundred Years' War, and instability within the local leadership of London. His attempts to collect unpaid poll taxes in Brentwood ended in a violent confrontation, which rapidly spread across the south-east of the country.
1386

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of 24 stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. The tales (mostly written in verse, although some are in prose) are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from London to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. The prize for this contest is a free meal at the Tabard Inn at Southwark on their return.
Period: 1399 to 1413

Henry IV kingdom
Period: 1413 to 1422

Henry V kingdom
Period: 1422 to 1461

Henry VI kingdom
1431

Joan of Arc die
1454

the first printing press by Gutemberg
1455

The War of The Roses

The Wars of the Roses were a series of wars for control of the throne of England fought between supporters of two rival branches of the royal House of Plantagenet: the House of Lancaster and the House of York. The conflict lasted through many sporadic episodes between 1455 and 1487.
Period: 1461 to 1485

Edward IV kingdom
Period: 1485 to 1509

Henry VII kingdom
- the first of the Tudor Dynasy;
- he consolidate his position trough: a treaty with France, giving him recognition, a trade treaty with the Netherlands and the dynastic marriage with his son Artur and Catherine of Aragon;
- he also laid the foundations of English naval power by increasing sprending on the shipbuilding so that England couldhave its own merchant fleet and extend its military power.
1492

Columbus discover the America
1501

marriage between Arthur and Cathrine of Aragon
Period: 1509 to 1547

Henry VIII kingdom
- He was called "the Golden Prince";
- In 1521 he was garanted the title of "Defender of Faith" by the pope;
- Henry married Catherine of Aragon and she give to him a daughter, Mary;
- Henry broke with Rome because they dont want to give a divorce from Catherine of Aragon and declared himself "Supreme Head on Earth of the Church of England" by means of Act of Supremacy;
- Henry married Anne Boleyn and she gives him a daughter, Elizabeth.
- She had four more wives and only one son, Edward.
1516

Mary I born
1521

King Henry VIII took the title of "Defender of Faith"

In 1521 he was granted the title by the pope in regonition of his Latin treatise defending the sacraments.
1533

marriage between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
1533

Elizabeth I born
1534

The Act of Supremacy by Henry VIII

Its an act where there is the purpose to firmly estabilish the English Monarch as the official head of the Church of England, supplantig the power of the Catholic pope in Rome. Henry VIII completed his break with the pope. by trying the church and the monarcy so closely together, support for Catolicism became not simply a statement of personal religious convinction, but a repudiation of the authority of the monarch, and as such, an act for treason punishable with death.
1536

Anne Boleyn was tried and exectuted for treason
Period: 1553 to 1558

Mary I kingdom

rejection from her father and te cruel tratment of her mother were to have a fondamental influence of her life;
- she married Philip of Spain for restore the England to papal obbedience;
- she burned many protestant so it earned her the nickname "Bloody Mary" and the alienated public opinion.
- Mary's end was tragic: deserted without an husnad or a heir, her foreign and domestic polices were a failure and her country was still divided over religion when she died.
Period: 1558 to 1603

Elizabeth I kingdom

Strong personality a lively intelligence and a passionate character. As queen she faced the problems of marriage and succession, religious division, domestic discontent, and foreign threats. She firmly to protestantism and granted the Catholicism’s freedom worship. The spirit emanating from the queen inspired literature, music, drama and poetry. She recognised Spain as her main trade rival and enemy but in 1588 she defeated the Spanish Armada and took the control over the sea.
1564

William Shakespeare born
1588

the defeat of the Spanish Armada

the fleet of the Spanish Armada lay in the English Channel close to the cliffs of Calais, but the Enlish defeated the Spanish and Elizabeth I took the supremacy at the sea and lay the basis of England's empire.