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1066 to 1760

Time Zones by Period or Kings and Queens of England	Historical Event
William the First: 1066-87 (The Conqueror)	1066-77: Commissioning of the Bayeaux Tapestry
William the Second: 1087-1100	1087: Domesday Book compiled
Henry the First: 1100-1135	1118: Birth of Thomas a Becket
Stephen: 1135-1154	1141: King Stephen captured by the Scots at Lincoln but the fight was continued by his wife Matilda 1147: Start of the Second Crusade
Henry the Second: 1154-89	1160: Birth of Robin Hood 29th December 1170: Murder of Thomas a Becket
Richard the First: 1189-1199	1191: First Lord Mayor of London appointed
John: 1199-1216	5th June 1215: Signing of the Magna Carta, charter of liberties, at Runnymede
Henry the Third: 1216-1272	December 1247: Death of Robin Hood 1249: Founding of University College, Oxford 1270: Birth of William Wallace 4th August 1265: Battle of Evesham
Edward the First: 1272-1307	11th July, 1274: Birth of Robert the Bruce 1275: First customs duties levied on wool and leather 3rd March 1284: Statute of Rhuddlan granting system of government to the Principality of Wales 1290: Expulsion of the jews from England 27th April 1296: Battle of Dunbar 11th September 1297: Battle of Stirling Bridge 22nd July 1298: Battle of Falkirk 23rd August 1305: Execution of William Wallace
Edward the Second: 1307-1327	24th June 1314: Battle of Bannockburn
Edward the Third: 1327-1377	7th June1329: Death of Robert the Bruce 1342: Birth of Geoffrey Chaucer 1348: The Black Death. Serious outbreak of Bubonic Plague 19th September 1356: Battle of Poitiers 1359: Birth of Owen Glendower
Richard the Second: 1377-1399	1381: The Peasant's Revolt led by Wat Tyler 1384: First english Bible produced
Henry the Fourth: 1399-1413	25th October 1400: Death of Geoffrey Chaucer 21st July 1403: Battle of Shrewsbury
Henry the Fifth: 1413-1422	1414: The Lollard Rising 1415: Death of Owen Glendower 25th October 1415: Battle of Agincourt 1417: Institution of the Garter King of Arms
Henry the Sixth (1st Part): 1422-1461	1422: Birth of William Caxton 1441: Founding of Eton College by Henry the Sixth 1455-85: The Wars of the Roses 22nd May 1455: Battle of St. Albans 10th July 1460: Capture of Henry 6th at the Battle of Northampton 30th December 1460: Battle of Wakefield
Edward the Fourth (1st Part): 1461-1470	29th March 1461: Battle of Towton 1469: The Shetland Isles become part of Scotland
Henry the Sixth (2nd Part): 1470-1471	4th May 1471: Battle of Tewkesbury
Edward the Fourth (2nd Part):1471-1483	1475: Birth of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey 7th February 1477: Birth of Sir Thomas More
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Richard the Third: 1483-1485	22nd August 1485: Battle of Bosworth Field 1485: Birth of Hugh Latimer 1485: The Yeoman of the Guard formed
Henry the Seventh: 1485-1509	1491: Death of William Caxton 1494: Poyning's Law restricting the Irish Parliament 1503: Birth of Nicholas Ridley
Henry the Eighth: 1509-1547	1512: Trinity House formed 9th September 1513: Battle of Flodden June 1520: Field of the Cloth of Gold 13th September 1520: Birth of William Cecil 1525: Christ Church College, Oxford founded by Thomas Wolsey 29th November 1530: Death of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey 1535-39: The Dissolution of the Monasteries 1539: Criminal Court founded at Old Bailey 6th July 1535: Death of Sir Thomas More 1540: Birth of Sir Francis Drake 1536-43: Union of England and Wales 1536-7: The Pilgrimage of Grace
Edward the Sixth: 1547-1553	10th September 1547: The Battle of Pinkie 1549: First Book of Common Prayer 1552/3: Birth of Edmund Spenser
Mary the First: 1553-1558	1554: Birth of Sir Walter Raleigh 16th October 1555: Death of Nicholas Ridley and Hugh Latimer Jan-February 1554: Wyatt's Rebellion
Elizabeth the First: 1558-1603	22nd January 1561: Birth of Sir Francis Bacon 26th February 1564: Birth of Christopher Marlowe 23rd April 1564: Birth of William Shakespeare 1571: Foundation of Harrow School 1572: Birth of John Donne 11th June 1572: Birth of Ben Jonson 19th July 1573: Birth of Inigo Jones 1st April 1578: Birth of William Harvey 5th April 1588: Birth of Thomas Hobbes July-August 1588: Defeat of the Spanish Armada 30th May 1593: Death of Christopher Marlowe 28th January 1596: Death of Sir Francis Drake 15th August 1598: Death of William Cecil 13th January 1599: Death of Edmund Spenser 25th April 1599: Birth of Oliver Cromwell 31st December 1600: East India Company founded.
James the First: 1603-1625	1604-5: The Gunpowder Plot 9th December 1608: Birth of John Milton 23rd April 1616: Death of William Shakespeare 29th October 1618: Death of Sir Walter Raleigh 6th September 1620: Sailing of the "Mayflower" and Pilgrim Fathers to America
Charles the First: 1625-1649	9th April 1626: Death of Sir Francis Bacon 1628: The Petition of Right 25th January 1627: Birth of Robert Boyle November 1628: Birth of John Bunyan 31st March 1631: Death of John Donne 19th August 1631: Birth of John Dryden 29th August 1632: Birth of John Locke 20th October 1632: Birth of Sir Christopher Wren 23rd February 1633: Birth of Samuel Pepys 18th July 1635: Birth of Robert Hooke 6th August 1637: Death of Ben Jonson 23rd October 1642: Battle of Edgehill at beginning of English Civil War 25th December 1642: Birth of Sir Issac Newton 2nd July 1644: Battle of Marston Moor 15th February 1645: Creation of the New Model Army 3rd April 1645: Self Denying Ordnance 14th June 1645: Battle of Naseby
Oliver Cromwell (Lord Protector):1649-1660	26th May 1650: Birth of the Duke of Marlborough 3rd September 1651: Battle of Worcester 21st June 1652: Death of Inigo Jones 8th November 1656: Birth of Edmond Halley 3rd June 1657: Death of William Harvey 1657: Foundation of the General Post Office 3rd September 1658: Death of Oliver Cromwell 1659: Birth of Henry Purcell
Charles the Second: 1660-1685	1660: Birth of Daniel Defoe April 1660: The Declaration of Breda November 1660: First meeting of the Royal Society of London 1661: Birth of Nicholas Hawksmoor 24th January 1664: Birth of John Vanbrugh 1665-6: The Great Plague 2nd September 1666: The Great Fire of London 30th November 1667: Birth of Jonathan Swift 7th March 1671: Birth of Rob Roy MacGregor 30th March 1674: Birth of Jethro Tull 8th November 1674: Death of John Milton 1675: Foundation of Greenwich Observatory 1678: Birth of Abraham Darby 4th December 1679: Death of Thomas Hobbes 1682: William Penn leaves England to found Pennsylvania what was to become the United States
James the Second: 1685-1688	12th March 1685: Birth of George Berkeley 6th July 1685: Battle of Sedgemoor September 1685: Bloody Assizes after Monmouth's Rebellion
William and Mary: 1688-1702	1688: The Glorious Revolution: William of Orange invades England 31st August 1688: Death of John Bunyan 1st-12th July 1690: Battle of the Boyne 30th December 1691: Death of Robert Boyle 1692: MacDonald clan massacred by the Campbells in Glencoe March 1693: Birth of John Harrison 1694: Foundation of the Bank of England 21st November 1695: Death of Henry Purcell 12th November 1697: Birth of William Hogarth 1st May 1700: Death of John Dryden 1701: Act of Settlement
Anne: 1702-1714	1702-13: War of the Spanish Succession 3rd March 1703: Death of Robert Hooke 26th May 1703: Death of Samuel Pepys 17th June 1703: Birth of John Wesley 13th August 1704: Battle of Blenheim 28th October 1704: Death of John Locke 28th January 1706: Birth of John Baskerville 23rd May 1706: Battle of Ramillies 1707: Union of England and Scotland 22nd April 1707: Birth of Henry Fielding 11th July 1708: Battle of Oudenarde 15th November 1708: Birth of William Pitt, The Elder 11th September 1709: Battle of Malplaquet 18th September 1709: Birth of Samuel Johnson 12th March 1710: Birth of Thomas Arne 26th April 1711: Birth of David Hume 24th November 1713: Birth of Lawrence Sterne
George the First: 1714-1727	1715: Birth of "Capability" Brown 13th November 1715: Battle of Sherifmuir 26th December 1716: Birth of Thomas Gray 19th February 1717: Birth of David Garrick 8th March 1717: Death of Abraham Darby 1720: The South Sea Bubble 5th June 1718: Birth of Thomas Chippendale 1720: Opening of the Haymarket Theatre in London 18th July 1720: Birth of Gilbert White 1721: Robert Walpole becomes first "Prime Minister" 31st December 1720: Birth of "Bonnie Prince Charlie" 16th June 1722: Death of the Duke of Marlborough 25th February 1723: Death of Sir Christopher Wren 5th June 1723: Birth of Adam Smith 16th July 1723: Birth of Joshua Reynolds 24th August 1724: Birth of George Stubbs 29th September 1725: Birth of Robert Clive 26th March 1726: Death of John Vanbrugh 2nd January 1727: Birth of James Wolfe 20th March 1727: Death of Sir Isaac Newton 14th May 1727: Birth of Thomas Gainsborough
George the Second: 1727-1760	3rd July 1728: Birth of Robert Adam 3rd September 1728: Birth of Matthew Boulton 27th October 1728: Birth of Captain Cook 1st January 1729: Birth of Edmund Burke 12th July 1730: Birth of Josiah Wedgewood 12th November 1730: Birth of Oliver Goldsmith 24th April 1731: Death of Daniel Defoe 1732: 10 Downing Street becomes the residence of the First Lord of the Treasury and Prime Minister 23rd December 1732: Birth of Richard Arkwright 13th March 1733: Birth of Joseph Priestley 28th December 1734: Death of Rob Roy MacGregor 19th January 1736: Birth of James Watt 24th March 1736: Death of Nicholas Hawksmoor 29th January 1737: Birth of Tom Paine 8th May 1737: Birth of Edward Gibbon 1739: Dick Turpin hanged for murder 1741: Foundation of the Foundling Hospital by Captain Thomas Coram 1739-48: The War of Jenkin's ear 1740-48: War of the Austrian Succession 1745: "God Save the King" first performed 21st February 1741: Death of Jethro Tull 14th January 1742: Death of Edmond Halley 21st September 1745: Battle of Prestonpans 19th October 1745: Death of Jonathan Swift 16th April 1746: Battle of Culloden 15th February 1748: Birth of Jeremy Bentham 24th January 1749: Birth of Charles James Fox 1749: Formation of the "Bow Street Runners" an early police force 17th May 1749: Birth of Edmund Jenner 1750: Foundation of the Jockey Club 4th November 1751: Birth of Richard Brinsley Sheridan 21st April 1752: Birth of Humphrey Repton 13th June 1752: Birth of Fanney Burney 1753: Foundation of the Britihs Museum Library 14th January 1753: Death of George Berkeley 1754: Foundation of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club 9th September 1754: Birth of William Bligh 8th October 1754: Death of Henry Fielding 24th December 1754: Birth of George Crabbe 8th May 1755: Birth of Josiah Spode 5th July 1755: Birth of Sarah Siddons 3rd March 1756: Birth of William Godwin 1756-63: Seven Years War 20th July 1756: Imprisonment in the Black Hole of Calcutta 21st September 1756: Birth of John Loudon McAdam 23rd June 1757: The Battle of Plassey 9th August 1757: Birth of Thomas Telford 28th November 1757: Birth of William Blake 29th September 1758: Birth of Lord Nelson 25th January 1759: Birth of Robert Burns 27th April 1759: Birth of Mary Wollstonecraft 28th May 1759: Birth of William Pitt the Younger 24th August 1759: Birth of William Wilberforce 13th September 1759: Death of James Wolfe

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