Key Dates Y8

• Eras


  • Renaissance
  • Early Modern Era
  • Reformation 16th Century
  • 1450-1750
• Charles I made King

  1625
• Closed parliment


  1626, 1629 (1642)
• 1st Civil War


  1642-1645
• 2nd Civil War


  1646-1648
• Charles executed


  1649
• New model army

  1642
• Interregnum


  1849-1660
• Atacking Bastille


  1789
• King Louis XVI execution

  1793
• Enlightenment


  • 17th century
  • 18th century
• Restoration


  1660
• British Empire Begins


  1853
• EIC

  1600
• British came to EIC as traders for 1st time

  1608
• Robert Clyde came as a Clark


  1744
• Fought battle against Bengal

  1777
• Famines


  1876-1877, 1899-1900
• Trade depended on Aurangzeb


  1700
• Aurangzeb died


  1707
• Salt tax


  1840s
• Queen Victoria - Empress


  1877
• Sepoy Rebellion


  1857
• India becomes British colony


  1858
• British Empire over 458 million people


  1922
• End of WWI


  1918
• End of WW2


  1945
• End of British Empire


  1977
• Crystallised sugar

  AD 350
• Height of Slave trade

  1760s
• First British slave trade


  1562
• Endof Slave trade


  1807
• Abolition of Slavery

  1833
• Peterloo Massacre


  1819
• Chartists, Pople's Charter


  1838
• Great Reform Act


  1832
• Women >30 could vote if they had a property or a husband with a property.

  1918
• Spark Of WW1

  1914
• Schlieffen plan


  1905
• Britain & Belgium agreement


  1839