KEY EVENTS IN BRITISH HISTORY DURING THE FOUR MAIN ERAS OF WORLD HISTORY
0 – 3500 BC
3500 BC – 500 AD
500 AD – 1500 AD
1500 AD – PRESENT DAY
Prehistory
Ancient times
Middle ages
Modern Era
1989 – Sir Tim Berners - Lee invents the World Wide Web
1914 – 1918 World War 1 1939 – 1945 World War 2
1837 – 1901 Reign of Queen Victoria
1800s Industrial Revolution
1750s onwards – Agricultural Revolution
1700s Georgian dynasty and growth of British Empire
1665 – 66 Great Plague and Fire of London
1642 – 1649 English Civil War
1605 Gunpowder Plot
1525 – 1560 The Reformation in England – Protestantism become main faith
1485 beginning of Tudor dynasty (1485 – 1603) Henry VII, VIII, Edward VI, Mary I,
Elizabeth !
1450-1480s Wars of the Roses – a civil war over who should be king
1215 Magna Carta (the Great Charter) Barons complained about too much taxation
1066 Battle of Hastings – William the Conqueror becomes King
878 King Alfred beats the Vikings at the Battle of Edington
789 Viking raids begin
597 St Augustine brings Christianity to England
500s This was when King Arthur was supposed to have lived
500s Saxon settlements
Around 410 AD Fall of Rome – Romans leave Britain
60 AD Boudicca’s rebellion against Roman Invaders
43 AD Beginning of the Roman conquest
55BC first Roman Invasion
Bronze & Iron age settlements with small farms and iron working
Stone Age – people lived by hunting animals and gathering food
6000 BC Britain becomes separated from European mainland
KEY EVENTS IN WORLD HISTORY DURING THE FOUR MAIN ERAS OF WORLD HISTORY
0 – 3500 BC
3500 BC – 500 AD
500 AD – circa 1500 AD
Circa 1500 AD – PRESENT DAY
Prehistory
Ancient times
Middle ages
Modern Era
1990 Nelson Mandela released after 27 years in jail
1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall
1969 Neil Armstrong is the first man on the moon
1933 – 1945 Hitler’s persecution of the Jews in the Holocaust
1926 Scotsman John Logie Baird transmits the first television picture
1789 Beginning of the French Revolution
1776 American Declaration of Independence
1770 Captain James Cook lands on the shores of Botany Bay in Australia
1619 The first of 10 million slaves are forcibly taken from Africa the the New World
1543 Polish astronomer Copernicus says sun is at centre of universe
1517 Start of the Reformation – Martin Luther nails 95 theses on church door
1400 – 1500 Italian Renaissance
1498 Portuguese Vasco da Gama establishes first sea route to Asia
1492 Christopher Columbus lands in the Americas
1350 Aztec and Inca empires at their peak
1275 The Venetian explorer Marco Polo arrives in China
1347 Black Death (plague) destroyed much of European population
1089 – 1212 Crusades – Europeans marched on Jerusalem
610 The prophet Mohammed begins teaching about Islam
79 AD Vesuvius erupts, Pompeii destroyed
300 BC Work on the Great Wall of China begins
298 – 212 BC Archimedes completes the Archimedes principle
1700 – 1500BC Nomads from Iran arrive in India bringing with them the basics of Hinduism
2650 BC oldest known pyramid built in Egypt
700,000BC Homo Erectus walks in Africa