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Proms started (Music)Statute of RhuddlanBattle of BannockburnBattle of AgincourtBlack DeathMagna CartaBattle of Bosworth FieldBattle of HastingsThe Vikings cameRoman invasion of BritainAnglo-Saxon kingdomsBritain separated from the continentThe first farmers arrivedThe Bill of RightsFree pressPlague in LondonAct of Union of 1700Battle of CullodenEmancipation ActAmerican independenceBritain recognised American independenceBattle of TrafalgarBattle of WaterlooAct of Union of 1800, Union Flagrepealing of the Corn LawsGreat ExhibitionHarold GodwinsonReduced work hoursNightingale Training SchoolThe Reform Act of 1832Reform Act, ChartistsWomen 30+ voting rightsDemocracy, Women 21+ voting rightsBritish attack on the SommeIreland became two countriesIreland became repubicRadio broadcastsRegular TV serviceHitler invaded PolandDunkirk spiritBattle of BritainD-DayNHSIndependence to coloniesBeveridge ReportEducation ActFirst TV broadcastStructure of DNAFirst ATMFirst IVFFirst cloningWWWNI Parliament suspendedEuropean Economic CommunityUK joins EU4m people5m people8m people20m people40m people50m people57m people60m people62m peopleAbolished Pope in ScotlandBattle of Marston MoorBattle of NasebyRevolt in IrelandGreat fire in LondonHabeas Corpus ActThe Glorious RevolutionBattle of the BoyneOlympic GamesOlympic GamesOlympic/Paralympic GamesFootball foundedWorld Cup winFirst tennis clubTurner Prize establishedTower of London builtElizabeth Tower builtFirst filmsInvasion of FalklandsUK leaves EUBonfire NightScottish parliament establishedWomen 18+ voting rightsEnglish ruled in PaleDiamond Jubilee‘Punch’ publishedEnglish as official languageAct for the Government of WalesFirst JewsFirst Union FlagSpanish ArmadaBritish leave IraqTuring machineParliament of EnglandHereditary Peers endThe RestorationRadarConcordeMotor-car racingFrench revolutionForced Marriage Protection OrdersPeriodi
Henry Purcell (Music)George Frederick Handel (Music)Gustav Holst (Music)Sir Edward Elgar (Music)Ralph Vaughan Williams (Choirs)Sir William Walton (Music)Benjamin Britten (Music)Thomas Gainsborough (Portrait)David Allan (Portrait)Joseph Turner (Landscape)John Constable (Landscape)Pre-Raphaelites (Religious)Sir John Lavery (Portrait)Henry Moore (Sculptor)John Petts (Engraving, Glass)Lucian Freud (Portrait)David Hockney (Pop Art)Inigo Jones (Architecture)Sir Christopher Wren (Architecture)Robert Adam (Architecture)Sir Edwin Lutyens (Architecture)Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown (Gardens)Gertrude Jekyll (Gardens)Jane Austen (Writing)Charles Dickens (Writing)Robert Louis Stevenson (Writing)Thomas Hardy (Writing)Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Writing)Evelyn Waugh (Satire)Sir Kingsley Amis (Writing)Graham Greene (Writing)J K Rowling (Writing)Robert Browning (Poetry)Lord Byron (Poetry)William Wordsworth (Poetry)William Blake (Poetry)Wilfred Owen (Poetry)The Wars of the RosesChristian communities began to appearThe Romans remained in BritainBronze AgeIron AgeMiddle AgesHuguenotsSir Robert Walpole (PM)Robert Burns (Poetry)The EnlightenmentThe Industrial RevolutionRichard Arkwright (Engineer)Sake Dean Mahomet (Food)Queen Victoria120k Russian and Polish JewsIsambard Kingdom Brunel (Engineer)The Crimean WarHundred Years' WarWilliam the ConquerorKing JohnEdward IEdward IIRichard IIIHenry VIIHenry VIIIBloody Mary I TudorElizabeth IJames VI and ICharles IWilliam III of OrangeGeorge IElizabeth IIHenry VGeorge IIIQueen AnneGeorge II13m British emigrantsFlorence Nightingale (Nurse)Great FamineIrish Nationalist movementEmmeline Pankhurst (Activist)The Boer WarRudyard Kipling (Writing)WWIGreat DepressionWinston Churchill (C PM)WWIIAlexander Fleming (Science)Clement Atlee (L PM)Harold Macmillan (C PM)Dylan Thomas (Poetry)William Beveridge (Politics)R A Butler (Politics)Swinging SixtiesMary Peters (Sport)Margaret Thatcher (C PM)Roald Dahl (Children Books)Tony Blair (L PM)David Cameron (C PM, coalition)ReformationWilliam Shakespeare (Writing)First English Civil WarOliver CromwellSir Edmund Halley (Science)Isaac Newton (Science)Charles IISir Roger Bannister (Running)Sir Jackie Stewart (F1)Bobby Moore (Football)Sir Ian Botham (Cricket)Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean (Ice dancing)Sir Steve Redgrave (Rowing)Baroness Tanni-Grey Thompson (Para / Marathon)Dame Kelly Holmes (Running)Dame Ellen MacArthur (Yachting)Sir Chris Hoy (Cycling)David Weir (Para / Marathon)Bradley Wiggins (Cycling)Mo Farah (Running)Jessica Ennis (Heptathlon)Andy Murray (Tennis)Ellie Simmonds (Para / Swimming)Gilbert and Sullivan (Drama)Andrew Lloyd Webber (Music)David Hume (Philosophy)Sir Francis Drake (Explorer)John MacLeod (Science)Gordon Brown (L PM)Emperor HadrianSir Charles Chaplin (Actor)Welsh rebelionGeoffrey Chaucer (Poetry)Kenneth MacAlpinR. A. Butler (Politics)Edward VIMary, Queen of ScotsJames Cook (Explorer)Alan Turing (Science)JRR Tolkien (Writing)Siegfried Sassoon (Poetry)John Barbour (Poetry)The TroublesAdam Smith (Economy)Dame Judi Dench (Actress)Kate Winslet (Actress)Robert the BruceMary Quant (Fashion)Alexander McQueen (Fashion)Sir Robert Watson-Watt (Science)James Watt (Engineer)Sir Frank Whittle (Engineer)Augustine of Canterbury (Religion)Frank Launder (Director)St Columba (Religion)Robert Stephenson (Engineer)Sir Francis Chichester (Sailing)Sir Robin Knox-Johnston (Sailing)Francis Crick (Science)Sir Alfred Hitchcock (Director)David Lean (Director)Alfred the GreatHighland ClearancesNick Park (Animation)Ian Fleming (Writing)King Charles III
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