A timeline of English history

  • Julius Caesar conquers the Celts
    55 BCE

    Julius Caesar conquers the Celts

    The Celts were either killed,enslaved, or push out of Britain
  • Alfred the Great
    871

    Alfred the Great

    He bravely led his people against the Danes and by 878, he had achieved complete victory over the Viking invaders.
  • Canute the Dane
    1016

    Canute the Dane

    Canute the Dane ruled England,Denmark, and Norway as a great empire
  • Battle of Hastings
    1066

    Battle of Hastings

    William the Conqueror sailed to England with an army of 10,000 men and met Harold's forces.
  • Domesday Book completed
    1086

    Domesday Book completed

    The Domesday Book was a survey and record of all the property, tenants, landowners, and serfs
  • The Hundred Years War
    1337

    The Hundred Years War

    A war which started on a dispute over the French throne
  • War of the Roses
    1455

    War of the Roses

    Named because the Yorks used a white rose as their emblem and the Lancasters used a red rose as theirs
  • Henry VII
    1485

    Henry VII

    He became the first Tudor king of England.
  • Henry VIII
    1509

    Henry VIII

    He became king at 18 years old. Later , the church named him "defender of the faith" for opposing Lutherans
  • The Convocation
    1531

    The Convocation

    It was when the King forced the English clergy, assembled in the the Convocation, to recognize him as "the single protector, the only supreme lord,and as far as is permitted by the law of Christ even supreme head" of the English church.
  • Edward VI
    1537

    Edward VI

    He became king when he was only 9 years old.
  • Mary Queen of Scots
    1542

    Mary Queen of Scots

    She conceived a son, and had to flee to her cousin Queen Elizabeth hoping to find refuge.
  • Mary I
    1553

    Mary I

    Queen Mary wanted to return the English nation to the Roman church.
  • Elizabeth I
    1558

    Elizabeth I

    People loved her for her remarkable character and extraordinary performance as ruler of England that she earned the affectionate nickname of Good Queen Bess
  • Defeat of the Spanish Armada

    Defeat of the Spanish Armada

    The Spanish Armada consisted of 130 ships, 2,500 guns, and more than 30,000 men.
  • James I

    James I

    King James I had a very definite ideas about the divine rights of kings.
  • Charles I

    Charles I

    He forced citizens to give him "loans", and then imprisoned or drafted military services who refused to pay.
  • English Civil War

    English Civil War

    The English Civil War began as a battle between the king and Parliament.
  • 1662

    1662

    The monarchy was fully restored.
  • The Plague

    The Plague

    A disease that raged nowhere else worse than in London and killed more than half of the city's population
  • The Great Fire of London

    The Great Fire of London

    It was a fire that raged for three days uncontrollably. The city of London was reduced to ruins
  • Glorious Revolution of 1688

    Glorious Revolution of 1688

    Glorious Revolution of 1688 established once and for all in England the principle of government by consent.