37 moments in british history

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37 MOMENTS IN BRITISH HISTORY

EVERY CHILD SHOULD LEARN Taken from: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/9229379/Pupils-failing-to-

study-British-history-at-school.html

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r Moment People Places Innovations

500 Anglo-

Saxonconquest Venerable Bede

Durham Cathedral,

Lindisfarne Coming of Christianity

900 TheDanelaw Alfred, Cnut York Anglo-Saxonliterature:

Beowulf

106

6

The Norman

Conquest

William

theConqueror

White Tower,

London

Domesday Book, rise of

serfdom

117

0

Battle between king

and Church

Thomas Becket,

Henry II

Canterbury

Cathedral

Expansion of

government

121

5

Battle between king

and barons King John Runnymede Firstuniversities

125

8

Consultation of

barons and

townsmen

Henry III,

Edward I, Simon

de Montfort

Westminster Abbey Rise of wooltrade

131

4

Scottish and

Welshwars

Robert the

Bruce, Llewllyn,

and Edward I

Welshcastles Gothic architecture

138

1 Peasants' revolt

Wat Tyler,

Richard II Medieval London

Black Death and

subsequent plague

epidemics

141

5

Agincourt and 100

Years' War Henry V CinquePorts

Chivalricliterature:

Arthurianlegends

148

5 Defeat of Yorkists

Richard II,

Henry VII

Bosworth, Tower

of London, Bristol

Caxton's printing press,

Cabot's voyages

153

5

Execution of

Thomas More

Henry VIII,

Thomas

Cromwell

Inns of Court,

Hampton Court

Break with Rome,

Enclosures

155

3 CatholicRestoration

Philip and Mary,

Thomas

Cranmer

Oxford Tudor architecture

158

8

Defeat of Spanish

Armada

Elizabeth I,

Burleigh,

Walsingham

Tilbury Protestantascendancy,

Elizabethan drama

161

1 King James BIble

James I,

LancelotAndrew

s

Lambeth Palace King James Bible,

Jacobean drama

164

9

Execution of

Charles I and

Cromwellian

conquest of Ireland

Charles I,

Archbishop

Laud, Oliver

Cromwell

Whitehall Palace,

Huntingdon

Thomas Hobbes, John

Milton's poems and

tracts

168

9

Glorious Revolution

and Battle of the

James II,

William III StPaul'sCathedral

Royal Society, Newton

and Scientific


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Boyne (1690) Revolution, John Locke,

Christopher Wren

170

7

Union of England

and Scotland

Duke of

Marlborough Blenheim Palace

Beginnings of

Agricultural Revolution

(JethroTull)

172

1

Beginning of

Walpole'sadministra

tion

Sir Robert

Walpole Houghton Hall

John Wesley and

Methodism

176

3

Treaty of Paris,

securing Canada etc.

for Crown

Elder Pitt,

George III British Museum

FoundationofBritishMus

eum

176

9

Spinning Mule: key

moment in Industrial

Revolution

John Watt,

JosiahWedgwoo

d

Ironbridge Steampower

177

6 Loss of 13 Colonies

Lord North,

George

Washington

Boston perhaps too

far away...

Adam Smith's Wealth of

Nations

180

5 Battle of Trafalgar

Pitt, Nelson,

Wellington

Portsmouth

(theVictory)

Edmund Burke, Thomas

Paine

182

5

Opening of

firstrailway

CastIereagh ,

Cannmg

Scicience Museum,

York Railway

Museum

Stephenson'sRocket

183

2

Reform Bill and

1833 Abolition of

Slavery

Wilberforce,

Wellington Liverpool

Factory Act and

workhouses

183

8

Chartists, and 1846

Repeal of Corn

Laws

Peel

Industrial

Manchester or

what's left of it

Penny Post (1840),

Darwin'svoyage

188

6

Irish Home Rule

Bill

Gladstone,

Disraeli

HughendenManor,

OsborneHouse

Suez Canal under

British control

190

4 Entente Cordiale Edward VII Buckingham Palace Motorcars

191

9 Treaty of Versailles Lloyd George

Admiralty Arch

and Whitehall, War

memorials

League ofNations

193

1

Statute of

Westminster

RamsayMacdon

ald, Baldwin Art Deco cinemas

Dominions released

from British control

194

0 Churchill as PM Churchill, Eden

Chartwell,

CabinetWarRooms Spitfire

194

5 Labourlandslide Attlee, Bevin Suburban semis

Welfare State, 1944

Education Act, UN

194

7 Indianindependence

Gandhi,

Mountbatten

British Empire and

Commonwealth

Museum (Bristol)

Large-scale migration

from Indian sub-

continent

196

0 Wind of Change Macmillan As above

British

withdrawalfromAfrica

196 British troops O'Neill, Paisley, NationalArmyMuseTerroristattacksonmainla


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9 deployed in Ulster Taoiseach Lynch um nd

197

3 UK joins EEC

Heath,

Callaghan

Brave new

architecture

Sex

Discriminationoutlawed

1975

198

4 Miners' strike

Margaret

Thatcher,

Scargill

Collieries Building of

ChannelTunnel

199

7 Blair electedtopower

Tony Blair,

Gordon Brown

Ideally, Houses of

Parliament

Internet and

globalization