History key dates

• The invention of printing was brought to England by William Caxton


  1472
• At the Battle of Bosworth, Henry Tudor defeated Richard III. This was now the beginning of the Tudor dynasty.


  1485
• Christopher Columbus 'discovered the Caribbean islands


  1492
• Henry VIII becomes King.

  1509
• Martin Luthers criticism of the Catholic church led to the Reformation. Europe became divided between Catholic and Protestant countries.


  1517
• Ferdinand Magellan sailed around the world

  522
• Henry VIII became head of the English church.

  1534
• Henry VIII and his chief minister Thomas Cromwell began to close the monasteries in England.

  1538
• Catholic Spain sent a fleet of ships to invade England. The Spanish Armada was defeated, and England remained a protestant nation.

  15881
• Englands East India Company (EIC) began to trade in southeast Asia


  1600
• The Gunpowder Plot. Catholic plotters attempted to blow up Parliament, but they were arrested before they were able to do so.


  1651
• England established its first successful colony in North America.

  1607
• The start of the English Civil War, fought between the supporters of King Charles I and the supporters of Parliament.


  1642
• Battle of Edge Hill

  1642
• Battle of Newbury


  1643
• Battle of Marston Moor


  1644
• Battle of Naseby


  1645
• King Charles I was executed.

  1649
• Oliver Cromwell dies.


  1658
• The Monarchy is restored as Charles II becomes King

  1660
• The Glorious revolution, The Catholic Monarch James II, was forced to give up his throne. Parliament invited James's protestant daughter, Mary, and her husband William to rule. Parliament placed limits on the Monarchy's authority.


  1688
• The act of Union between england and Scotland was passed. This means two countries were ruled by the same parliament in in London. The act was not accepted by the Catholics in the highland of Scotland.

  1707
• The Jacobite Rebellion Charles Edward Stuart (grandson of James II) landed in Scotland and led a rebellion to force the English King (George II), of the throne. The rebellion was defeated at the battle of Culloden.

  17451
• French Royal family escaped

  1791
• Army seized country. Napolean Empire


  4799
• • Abolition of the trade in Enslaved people
  • Abolition of slavery altogether

  1833
• Sepoy rebellion


  4857
• Queen Victoria is made Empress of India


  1877
• Scramble for Africa


  1884
• Triple Entente


  1907
• Start of WW1


  1914
• End of WW1


  1918