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- 0407&Romans leave Britain*
- 0787&Vikings attack Britain*
- 1066%Battle of Hastings*
- 1096%first crusade*
- 1199^John become king*
- 1215%Magna Carta signed*
- 1272^Marco Polo visit China*
- 1348&Black Death hit England*
- 1415%Battle of Agincourt*
- 1455&Wars of the Roses begin*
- 1483!Richard III crowned*
- 1492^Columbus find America*
- 1509!Henry VIII crowned as king*
- 1558^Elizabeth I's reign begin*
- 1577^Drake sail the world*
- 1588%Spanish Armada defeated*
- 1605%Gunpowder Plot*
- 1620&Mayflower sail for America*
- 1642&English Civil War begin*
- 1666%Great Fire of London*
- 1739!Dick Turpin hanged*
- 1769^Cook visit New Zealand*
- 1773%Boston Tea Party*
- 1776!US independence declared*
- 1789%first US president elected*
- 1789%Mutiny on the Bounty*
- 1789&French revolution begin*
- 1805%Battle of Trafalgar*
- 1820^George IV become king*
- 1837^Victoria become queen*
- 1860%Pony Express started*
- 1861&US Civil War begin*
- 1865!Lincoln assassinated*
- 1896&modern Olympics start*
- 1899&Boer War begin*
- 1901^Queen Victoria die*
- 1903%first aeroplane's flight*
- 1912&Titanic sink*
- 1926%General Strike*
- 1969%first moon landing*
- 1078%Tower of London built*
- 1242!gunpowder brought to Europe*
- 1249%first university founded*
- 1295!Parliament founded*
- 1450!printing invented*
- 1462!a watch first consulted*
- 1564!Shakespere born*
- 1608%telescope invented*
- 1703!Buckingham Palace built*
- 1718%machine gun patented*
- 1721&first Prime Minister take office*
- 1752%first lightning conductor used*
- 1783%first parachute used*
- 1796!vaccination discovered*
- 1799!income tax first paid*
- 1808%first typewriter used*
- 1825&first passenger train run*
- 1826%first photograph taken*
- 1835%first computer designed*
- 1837^Morse invent telegraphy*
- 1839%first dental school opened*
- 1840%first postage stamp used*
- 1851%Great Exhibition in London*
- 1857!a lift first used*
- 1858%first burglar alarm used*
- 1863&first "tube" train run*
- 1866!dynamite invented*
- 1876^Bell invent the telephone*
- 1887%first motor car built*
- 1888%ball point pen invented*
- 1890!antiseptic surgery developed*
- 1899%Eiffel Tower erected*
- 1901%first Nobel prize awarded*
- 1908%boy scout movement founded*
- 1916!a tank first used in a war*
- 1919%first supermarket opened*
- 1928!Mickey Mouse's debut*
- 1928^Fleming discover antibiotics*
- 1930%"Empire State" built*
- 1951%first Miss World contest*
- 0043&Romans invade Britain*
- 1399!Henry IV crowned as king*
- 1534^Henry VIII break with Rome*
- 1587!Mary Queen of Scots killed*
- 1603^Elizabeth I die*
- 1625!Charles I crowned*
- 1642!New Zealand discovered*
- 1653^Cromwell come to power*
- 1665%Great Plague in Britain*
- 1790!Washington DC founded*
- 1804%steam locomotive invented*
- 1812^Napoleon invade Russia*
- 1815%Battle of Waterloo*
- 1851%Australian gold rush*
- 1896%Klondyke gold rush*
- 1914&First World War begin*
- 1916%Battle of the Somme*
- 1917%Russian Revolution*
- 1918&First World War end*
- 1934^Hitler become Fuhrer*
- 1936^Edward VIII abdicate*
- 1939&Second World War begin*
- 1939^Germany invade Poland*
- 1940%Battle of Britain*
- 1945%United Nations formed*
- 1945&Second World War end*
- 1948&NHS start*
- 1951%Festival of Britain
- 1953!Elizabeth II crowned*
- 1953^Hillary conquer Everest*
- 1960^Kennedy become President*
- 1961%first manned space flight*
- 1963!President Kennedy killed*
- 1963%Great Train Robbery*
- 1966^England win the World Cup*
- 1967%first heart transplant*
- 1976^Concorde go into service*
- 1978^John Paul become pope*
- 1979^Mrs Thatcher become PM*
- 1980!John Lennon killed*
- 1980^Reagan become President*
- 1981^Charles and Diana marry*
- 1984^Los Angeles host the Olympics*
- 1985%Live Aid concert*
- 1986^Challenger explode*
- 1987!Terry Waite captured*
- 1989^George Bush become President*
- 1990!Germany re-united*
- 1991%War in the Gulf*
- 1991!John McCarthy released*
- 0064^fire destroy ancient Rome*
- 0079!Pompeii destroyed*
- 0122^Hadrian visit Britain*
- 0982&Vikings discover Greenland*
- 1381%Peasant's Revolt*
- 1431!Joan of Arc executed*
- 1485&Wars of the Roses end*
- 1497!Newfoundland discovered*
- 1519%first round-world voyage*
- 1533!Henry VIII excommunicated*
- 1553^Mary I become queen*
- 1629!Massachusetts founded*
- 1643^Louis XIV come to power*
- 1649!Charles I executed*
- 1702^Anne become queen*
- 1702^William III die*
- 1714^George I become king*
- 1770!New South Wales discovered*
- 1781!Uranus discovered*
- 1801^Britain and Ireland unite*
- 1804^Napoleon become emperor*
- 1807^Britain abolish slavery*
- 1842^China hand over Hong Kong*
- 1846%Irish potato famine*
- 1854&Light Brigade "charge"*
- 1863!US slavery abolished*
- 1865&US Civil War end*
- 1869%Suez Canal first opened*
- 1872%Mary Celeste "abandoned"*
- 1900%Boxer Rebellion in China*
- 1901^Edward VII become king*
- 1910^George V become king*
- 1911^Amundsen reach the S Pole*
- 1914%Panama Canal completed*
- 1920%Irish Civil War*
- 1929%Wall Street Crash*
- 1933^Hitler become chancellor*
- 1936!George VI crowned*
- 1941!Pearl Harbor attacked*
- 1945!Hiroshima bombed*
- 1957%Common Market set up*
- 1961!Princess Diana born*
- 1961%Berlin Wall built*
- 1962%Cuban missile crisis*
- 1962^John Glenn orbit Earth*
- 1962^Marilyn Munroe die*
- 1963^Beeching close railway lines*
- 1968^Russia invade Czechoslovakia*
- 1969^Charles become Prince of Wales*
- 1970&first jumbo jet take off*
- 1970&Beatles split up*
- 1973^Anne marry Mark Phillips*
- 1974^President Nixon resign*
- 1975&Viet Nam War end*
- 1975^Britain join the EEC*
- 1979%Shah of Iran deposed*
- 1982%Barbican opened*
- 1982%Falklands War*
- 1982%Mary Rose raised*
- 1982&Pope visit Britain*
- 1985^Gorbachev come to power*
- 1986%GLC abolished*
- 1986^Prince Andrew marry*
- 1987!"Black Monday"*
- 1987^Gales hit southern England*
- 1988%Clapham rail crash*
- 1988^Korea host the Olympics*
- 1990!Nelson Mandela Freed*
- 1990%Poll Tax introduced*
- 1990^Iraq invade Kuwait*
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