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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, History of the formation of the United Kingdom and History of the United Kingdom
1003. Edward the Confessor, the future king of England (r. 1042-1066), is born to parents Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy. 1016. Harold Harefoot, the future king of England (r.1035-1040), is born to parents Cnut the Great and Ælfgifu of Northhampton. 1016.
1305 Capture and execution of Scottish resistance fighter William Wallace by the English on a charge of treason. 1306 Robert the Bruce kills John Comyn III of Badenoch and is crowned King of Scotland. 1307 Death of Edward I, Edward II accedes to the English throne. 1314 Decisive victory for Scotland over England at the Battle of Bannockburn.
This page presents a timeline of events in English and Scottish history from 1600 until 1699. 1603 – Death of Queen Elizabeth I on 24 March. 1603 England – James VI of Scotland crowned King of England (as James I of England) 1603 England – Plague. 1605 England and Scotland – on 5 November, the Gunpowder plot is uncovered, in which Guy ...
Silbury Hill, c. 2400 BC. England has been continuously inhabited since the last Ice Age ended around 9000 BC, the beginning of the Middle Stone Age, or Mesolithic era. Rising sea-levels cut off Britain from the continent for the last time around 6500 BC.
v. t. e. British Isles (1565), by Ignazio Danti. The history of the British Isles began with its sporadic human habitation during the Palaeolithic from around 900,000 years ago. The British Isles has been continually occupied since the early Holocene, the current geological epoch, which started around 11,700 years ago.
v. t. e. In England and Wales, the Tudor period occurred between 1485 and 1603, including the Elizabethan era during the reign of Elizabeth I (1558–1603). The Tudor period coincides with the dynasty of the House of Tudor in England, which began with the reign of Henry VII.
Timeline of British history (1800–1899) This article presents a timeline of events in the history of the United Kingdom from 1800 AD until 1899 AD. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the related History of the British Isles.