British timeline

  • War of Roses (1455-1485)
    1455 BCE

    War of Roses (1455-1485)

    series of dynastic civil wars between the houses Lancaster and York for the English throne
    Henry VII defeat King Richard III
  • Magna carta
    1215

    Magna carta

    Charter of rights that gave certain political and legal rights to some English people, signed by King John of England
  • Black Death (1347-1350)
    1347

    Black Death (1347-1350)

  • Tudor family (1485-1603)
    1485

    Tudor family (1485-1603)

    The dynasty of the Tudor starts with Henry VII and end with Elizabeth I
  • Henry VIII (1509-1547)
    1491

    Henry VIII (1509-1547)

    Henry VII was the son of Henry VII (1485-1509) and he had six wives and he had five children
  • Reign of Mary I (1553-1558)
    1516

    Reign of Mary I (1553-1558)

    Mary I was the daughter of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII, she's was the first daughter of Henry VIII, she was called "Bloody Mary"
  • 95 theses of Martin Luther
    1517

    95 theses of Martin Luther

    The principal idea of the theses of Martin Luther was the growing practice of selling indulgences by the Catholic Church
  • Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603)
    1533

    Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603)

    Queen Elizabeth was the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, she was called "the virgin queen"
  • Supremacy act
    1534

    Supremacy act

    Parliament passed the supremacy act which defined right Henry VIII to be supreme head of the Church of England
  • Act of treason
    1534

    Act of treason

    Anyone who depraved the king or queen of the dignity title or name of their royal estate was a traitor
  • 1536

    Calvinism

    Calvinism is a form of protestantism
    Calvinism from John Calvin a French theologian
  • Defeat of Spanish Armada

    Defeat of Spanish Armada

    It was a war between England and Spain, the English were able to defeat the Armada thanks to the wind who blew the Spanish ships
  • Act against the Puritans

    Puritans were protestant and Elizabeth I wanted to repress them
  • Charles I (1600-1642)

    Charles I (1600-1642)

    Charles I believed in Divine right for a king.
    He will be executed in January 1649
  • Arminianism

    began in the early 17th
    Arminianism from Jacobus Arminius, a theologian
  • Gunpowder Plot

    Gunpowder Plot

    Group of catholics plotted to blow up Parliament but it was a fake plot
  • Civil war (1642-1651)

    The civil war breaks because Charles the first believed in divine right for a king and the Parliament didn't agree
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    Commonwealth

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    English civil war

    This revolution resulted in the judgment and then the execution of King Charles I (1649)
  • The Putney Debates

    The Putney Debates

    discussions over the political settlement that should follow Parliament's victory over Charles I in the first English civil war
  • Popish plot

    Popish plot

    False conspiracy
  • exclusion crisis

  • Act of settlement

    Parliament claims right to decide who will reign
  • Glorious Revolution

  • Bill of Rights

    Document
  • Toleration Act

  • tracy of Limerick

  • Stuart dynasty 1603-1714

    Stuart dynasty 1603-1714

    The dynasty started with James I and ended with Anne
  • Act of security

    Scottish Parliament passed the act of security
  • Act of Union

    Act of Union

    led to the creation of a United Kingdom
  • Act of union with Ireland

    Act of union with Ireland

    agreement with Ireland and and Great Britain to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
  • Reform act

    Reform act

    Act who gave the vote to middle class men created 67 new constituencies

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