History timeline - Robert Woodland

Battle of Hastings Magna Carta Death of Thomas Becket Battle of Lewes Death of William Wallace Edward I conquers Wales Medieval Black Death Columbus sails to America Dissolution of the monasteries The peasant’s revolt Pilgrimage of Grace Guy Fawkes plot Elizabethan poor law Spanish Armada Charles II crowned king Abolition of slavery Great Reform Act Beginning of the police force Battle of Waterloo American Revolution (American Independence) Union of England and Scotland Tolpuddle Martyrs Combination Acts First cinema opening Invention of the motor car First Public Health Act Irish potato famine Discovery of penicillin Invention of the Television Nancy Astor sitting in Parliament Titanic sinking Great Exhibition Formation of the Labour Party Trades Union Congress Birth control pill invented Declaration of Human Rights published Wind rush boat arriving in UK Welfare State proposed WW2 WW1 New event Channel tunnel falls down Margaret Thatcher become PM IRA bombs Birmingham Britain joins the European Economic Community England win the Football world cup Doomsday book written Hundred years war with France Wars of the Roses English Civil War Charles I execution