British History timeline
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The Battle of Hastings
The Battle of Hastings (14 October 1066) was the decisive Norman victory in the Norman Conquest of England. It was fought between the Norman army... Read more
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Anne Boleyn is Born
Anne Boleyn was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of King Henry VIII, the mother of Queen Elizabeth I, and Marquess of Pembroke... Read more
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Queen Anne Boleyn is Executed
In May 1536, Anne was arrested and charged with treason. Anne was held in the Tower of London. The Constable of the Tower was William Kingston. He... Read more
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Gunpowder Plot - Guy Fawkes Day
The Gunpowder Conspiracy of 1605, as it was then known, (also known as The Powder Treason or The Gunpowder Plot) was a failed assassination attempt... Read more
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John Smith Elected Council President of Jamestown
Explorer, writer, and cartographer John Smith assumed the presidency of the Jamestown settlement on September 10, 1608. The charismatic and... Read more
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General Charles Cornwallis Surrenders To General George Washington At Yorktown
On October 19, 1781, British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered his army of some 8,000 men to General George Washington at Yorktown, giving up... Read more
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Battle of Trafalgar
The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement fought by the British Royal Navy against the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy,... Read more
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War of 1812
The War of 1812, between the United States of America and the British Empire (particularly Great Britain and British North America), was fought... Read more
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The Treaty of Ghent
The Treaty of Ghent, signed on December 24, 1814, in Ghent, currently in Belgium, was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the... Read more
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Winston Churchill Is Born
A descendant of the famous aristocratic Spencer family, Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, like his father, used the surname Churchill in public... Read more
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Winston Churchill Attends Royal Military College at Sandhurst
Never a strong scholar, the boy Winston rebelled against learning and refused to study what did not interest him. He was, Peter de Mendelsson (The... Read more
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Winston Churchill Travels To Cuba
I hope the United States will not force Spain to give up Cuba— unless you are prepared to accept responsibility for the results of such action. If... Read more
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Winston Churchill Is Transferred To Bombay
In early October 1896, he was transferred to Bombay, British India. He was considered one of the best polo players in his regiment and led his team... Read more
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Winston Churchill Is Transferred To Egypt
The 21st Lancers were then ordered to cut the Dervish line of retreat into the city. As the Regiment advanced, they came under rifle fire from what... Read more
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Churchill Acts As War Correspondent During the Second Boer War
In 1899, Winston Churchill headed to South Africa as a newspaper correspondent for the Morning Post to cover the Boer War between British and Dutch... Read more
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Winston Churchill Publishes 'The River War'
..there are many people in England, and perhaps elsewhere, who seem to be unable to contemplate military operations for clear political objects,... Read more
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Winston Churchill Is Elected To The House Of Commons
Churchill from the beginning invariably addressed national rather than local issues. Oldham (for which he sat in 1900-06) was an important... Read more
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Winston Churchill Publishes 'The Story of the Malakand Field Force'
Every influence, every motive, that provokes the spirit of murder among men, impels these mountaineers to deeds of treachery and violence. The... Read more
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Winston Churchill Is Promoted To President Of The Board Of Trade
He [Churchill] was also, like Lloyd George before him, very willing to adopt a high profile in trying to resolve industrial disputes. Soon after... Read more
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Winston Churchill Marries Clementine Hozier
Various contemporary memoirs contain references to Clementine's outstanding beauty, to which photographs (either then or later) rarely did justice.... Read more
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The Siege of Sidney Street
The police were armed with bulldog revolvers, shotguns and rifles fitted with .22 Morris-tube barrels for use on a minature range, but these proved... Read more
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Winston Churchill Travels To 'The Siege of Antwerp'
On 2 October the Germans succeeded in penetrating two of the city's forts. Churchill was sent to Antwerp to provide a first-hand report on the... Read more
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Armistice Signed at Compiegne Marks the End of World War 1
World War I – known at the time as “The Great War” - officially ended when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919, in the Palace of... Read more
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Winston Churchill Establishes The 'Ten-Year Rule'
With peace seemingly assured, in 1919 it was decided that for planning purposes the armed forces should abide by the ten-year rule and not plan on... Read more
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Winston Churchill Signs The Anglo-Irish Treaty
The Anglo-Irish Treaty would replace the Third Home Rule Bill and the Ireland Act and would result in a much more independent South Ireland, or... Read more