Below are a list of pages covering the History of England and the History of the United Kingdom.
Medieval realms - Britain 1066-1500
edit- Norman invasion (1066) and Thomas a Becket (1170)
- Matilda of Boulogne (1105-1152), Stephen of England (1096-1154)
- Parliament of England, Magna Carta (1215), First Barons' War (1215-1217)
- Edward I of England (1239-1307), Edward II of England (1284-1327), Second Barons' War (1264-1267)
- Crusades (1096-1272).
- Black Death (1340-1350)
- Edward III of England (1312-1377), Edward, the Black Prince (1330-1378)
- Hundred Years' War (1337-1453)
- English peasants' revolt of 1381
- Henry V of England (1387-1422)
- Joan of Arc (1412-1431)
- Wars of the Roses (1455-1487)
- Henry VI of England (1421-1471)
- King Richard III (1452-1485)
- Henry VII of England (1457-1509)
Themes include:
- The establishment of royal control by medieval Kings over the church
- The role of the church in secular life
- The role and importance of monasteries and nunneries
- The life of people in towns and villages, under the feudal system
- Women in medieval society
- Castles and cathedrals
- Medieval art and literature
The Making of the United Kingdom
edit- King Henry VIII (1491-1547)
- Dissolution of the monasteries (1538-1541), English reformation, Enclosure
- Pilgrimage of Grace (1536), Kett's Rebellion (1549), Prayer Book Rebellion (1549)
- Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex (1485-1540)
- Thomas Cardinal Wolsey (1471-1530)
- Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603)
- William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520-1598)
- Wyatt's rebellion (1554), Lady Jane Grey (1537-1554)
- Mary I of Scotland (1542-1587), Rising of the North (1569) and Babington plot (1586)
- Anglo–Spanish War (1585), Spanish Armada (1588), Nine Years' War (Ireland) (1594-1603)
- Elizabethan Poor Law (1601)
- Charles I of England (1600-1649)
- Remember, remember the fifth of November,
- The gunpowder, treason, and plot,
- I know no good reason why the gunpowder treason
- Should ever be forgot.
- Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, 'twas his intent
- To blow up the King and the Parliament.
- Three score barrels of powder below,
- Poor old England to overthrow;
- By God's providence he was catch'd
- With a dark lantern and burning match.
- Holloa boys, holloa boys, make the bells ring.
- Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!
- Hip hip hoorah!
- Great Fire of London (1666)
- Glorious revolution (1688)
- Monmouth Rebellion
- Act of Union (1707)
- Robert Walpole (1676-1745)
- Jacobite rising (1715 and 1745)
Britain 1750-1900
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- History of rail transport in Great Britain
- Richard Trevithick, George Stephenson, Robert Stephenson
- British agricultural revolution
- Great Exhibition