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For a full timeline overview, see timeline of British history. There was no concept of "British history" in the 1500s, except that the word "British" was used to refer to the ancient Britons and the Welsh. This page presents a timeline of events in the history of England and Scotland from 1500 until 1599. 1509 England – Henry VIII crowned and married to Catherine of Aragon 1513 England and ...
The Tudor myth is a particular tradition in English history, historiography, and literature that presents the period of the 15th century, including the Wars of the Roses, as a dark age of anarchy and bloodshed, and sees the Tudor period of the 16th century as a golden age of peace, law, order, and prosperity.
December – formation of the League of Cambrai between France and the Habsburgs results in the wedding between Mary Tudor and Archduke Charles being called off. [1] 1509. 22 April – the 17-year-old Henry VIII becomes King of England on the death of his father, Henry VII; [5] he will reign for 38 years.
[8] [9] [10] Following the Industrial Revolution, which started in England, Great Britain ruled a colonial Empire, the largest in recorded history. Following a process of decolonisation in the 20th century, mainly caused by the weakening of Great Britain's power in the two World Wars; almost all of the empire's overseas territories became ...
By royal proclamation, James styled himself "King of Great Britain", but no such kingdom was created until 1707, when England and Scotland united during the reign of Queen Anne to form the new Kingdom of Great Britain, with a single British parliament sitting at Westminster. This marked the end of the Kingdom of England as a sovereign state.
Henry VII, the future king of England (r. 1485-1509), is born to parents Edmund Tudor and Margaret Beaufort. 1485: 22 August: Battle of Bosworth Field (Battle of Bosworth): the last significant battle of the Wars of the Roses, the civil war between the Houses of Lancaster and York. Richard III, the last Plantagenet king was killed, succeeded by ...
This is a timeline of British history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of England, History of Wales, History of Scotland, History of Ireland, Formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and History of the United Kingdom
England in the Middle Ages concerns the history of England during the medieval period, from the end of the 5th century through to the start of the early modern period in 1485. When England emerged from the collapse of the Roman Empire , the economy was in tatters and many of the towns abandoned.