MEP

• when did vikings control eastern and northeastern area of Britain (Danelaw)?


  AD878
• when did the normans from France defeat Anglo-Saxon king Harold at the Battle of Hastings?


  1066
• when was the hundred years war between England and France?


  1337-1453
• when did John Hawkins transport enslaved Africans to Spanish colonies, starting British involvement in slave trade?


  1562
• when was the first successful English settlement [Jamestown] on mainland of North America (British colonisation of N. America) involving the seizure of territory from indigenous Americans?


  1607
• when did Huguenot [protestant] settlers begin to arrive in Britain from France in big numbers?


  1670
• when was the British victory at the Battle of Plassey, allowing the EIC to take over Bengal?


  1757
• when was Britain's defeat in the War of Independence?


  1775-82
• when did the highland clearances in Scotland begin?


  1780
• when was the Irish potato famine?


  1845-49
• when was the Indian Rebellion?


  1957-58
• when was the Scramble for Africa?


  1881-1914
• when was the Second Boer War?


  1899-1902
• when did India gain independence from Britain?


  1947
• when was the Empire Windrush?

  1948
• when did Britain join the EU?

  1973
• when was the Falklands War between Britain and Argentina?


  1982
• In 1999, twelve members of the EU agreed to adopt the Euro as their currency, but Britain continued to use the Pound