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Question		Answer
Stonehenge completed: start learning		1.600 BC as construction
Julius Caesar's raids on Britain: start learning		55 and 54 BC
Claudian conquest of Britain: start learning		43AD
Queen Boudicca's revolt: start learning		61 AD
Hadrian Wall completed: start learning		129 AD
Roman rule ends in Britain: start learning		409 AD
Beginning of Anglo-Saxon invasions of Britain: start learning		449
Christianization of Ireland by St. Patrick: start learning		5th century (circa 428 AD)- 430/431
St. Augustine founds a monastery at Canterbury: start learning		597 AD
Synod of Whitby: start learning		664 AD
Venerable Bede completes the History of the English Church and People: start learning		731 AD
reign of Alfred the Great: start learning		871-899 AD
Treaty of Wedmore: start learning		878 AD
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: start learning		891 - 1154 AD
Battle of Brunanburgh: start learning		937 AD
Battles of Stamford Bridge and Hastings: start learning		Sept 25th 1066 AD
Domesday Book: start learning		1086 AD
Magna Carta Libertatum: start learning		1215 AD
Simon de Montfort's parliament: start learning		1265 AD
Statute of Rhuddlan: start learning		1284 AD
Model Parliament: start learning		1295 AD
Battle of Bannockburn: start learning		1314 AD
Hundred Years' War: start learning		1337-1453 AD
Battle of Crecy: start learning		1346 AD
Black Death: start learning		1348-1350 AD
Great Revolt of the Peasants: start learning		1381 AD
revolt of Owain Glyndwr: start learning		1400-1415 AD
Battle of Agincourt: start learning		1415
Wars of the Roses: start learning		1455-1485
Battle of Bosworth start learning		1485
Act of Supremacy start learning		1534
Wales legally incorporated by England start learning		1536
Reign of Queen Elizabeth I start learning		1558-1603
Francis Drake circumnavigates the world start learning		1577-1580
defeat of the Spanish Armada start learning		1588
personal union of England and Scotland start learning		1603
the Gunpowder Plot start learning		1605
the Authorized Version of the Bible start learning		1611
English Civil War start learning		1642-1651
Execution of Charles I start learning		1649
the Commonwealth and the Protectorate - start learning		1649-53; 1653-1660
Great Fire of London start learning		1666
The Habeas Corpus Act – start learning		1679 (Royal Assent – 27 May 1679)
Glorious Revolution (also called the Revolution of 1688) – start learning		1688
English Bill of Rights – start learning		1689
Battle of the Boyne – start learning		1690
Foundation of the Bank of England – start learning		27 July 1694
Act of Settlement – start learning		1701
Battle of Blenheim – start learning		13 August 1704
Act of Union England + Scotland, Great Britain comes in life – start learning		1707
Jacobite Rebellion of Fifteen – start learning		1715
Robert Walpole becomes the first Prime Minister – start learning		1721
Battle of Culloden – start learning		16 April 1746
Battle of Plassey – start learning		23 June 1757
Captain Cook’s voyages: start learning		First voyage (1768–71); Second voyage (1772–75); Third voyage (1776–79)
French Revolutionary War – start learning		1792 -1802
Battle of the Nile – start learning		1798
Union of Great Britain and Ireland – start learning		1801
Battle of Trafalgar – start learning		1805
Battle of Waterloo – start learning		1815
Catholic Emancipation Act (also called Catholic Relief Act) – start learning		1829
Great Reform Bill (First Reform Act) – start learning		1832
Abolition of slavery in all British dominions – start learning		1833
Reign of Queen Victoria – start learning		20 June 1837 to 22 January 1901
Chartist Movement – start learning		1838 – 1848
Crimean War start learning		October 1853 – February 1856
Indian Mutiny start learning		10 May 1857 – 1859
British North America Act start learning		1867
The Boer Wars start learning		1880-1881, 1899-1902
Labor Party first time in Parliament start learning		1905
Parliament Act start learning		1911
World War I start learning		28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918
Gallipoli Campaign start learning		25 April 1915 to 9 January 1916
Battle of the Somme start learning		1 July to 18 November 1916
Battle of Jutland start learning		31 May to 1 June 1916
Easter Rising from Easter Monday start learning		24 April to 30 April 1916.
Gorge V changes the name of the Royal House to Windsor start learning		17 July 1917
Treaty of Versailles start learning		28 June 1919
Irish Free State established start learning		6 December 1922
Statue of Westminster start learning		11 December 1931
Abdication of Edward start learning		VII December 1936
World War II start learning		1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945
Dunkirk Evacuation start learning		26 May and the early hours of 3 June 1940
Battle of Britain start learning		10 July – 31 October 1940
Battle of El Alamein and loss of Singapore days from start learning		23 October – 11 November 1942
Monte Cassino start learning		17 January – 18 May 1944
D-Day start learning		June 6th 1944
Operation Market Garden start learning		26 June 1945
United Nations formed start learning		1945
India becomes independent start learning		15 August 1947
National Health Service created start learning		1948
NATO formed start learning		4 April 1949
Reign of Elizabeth II start learning		6 February 1952 – present
Suez Crisis start learning		29 October 1956 – 7 November 1956
(Sinai under Israeli occupation until March 1957) start learning		(Sinai under Israeli occupation until March 1957)
Life Peerages Act start learning		30 April 1958
The Troubles in Ireland (Belfast "Good Friday" Agreement) start learning		Late 1960s–1998
Britain enters the EEC start learning		1 January 1973
Falklands War start learning		2 April 1982 – 14 June 1982
the Gulf War start learning		2 August 1990 – 28 February 1991 (210 days) (Operation Desert Shield officially ended 30 November 1995)
Maastricht Treaty start learning		7 February 1992
Good Friday Agreement start learning		10 April 1998
Handover of Hong Kong start learning		1 July 1997
Death of Princess Diana start learning		31 August 1997
Establishment of the Scottish National Parliament start learning		Scotland Act 1998
Establishment of the National Assembly for Wales start learning		1998
House of Lords Act start learning		11 November 1999
New Zealand claimed for Britain start learning		1769
Australia claimed for Britain and named New South Wales start learning		1770

Dates - History of Britain

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