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Hint	Answer
Vikings attack Lindisfarne	793
Alfred the Great becomes King of the English	871
St Brice’s Day Massacre	1002
Cnut’s North Sea Empire	1016-1035
Battle of Hastings	1066
Henry II and the Angevin Empire	1154-1181
King John loses the Angevin Empire	1216
The Hundred Years War	1337-1453
Battle of Agincourt	1415
Henry V declared King of France (and then dies)	1420
John Cabot discovers Newfoundland	1497
John Hawkins becomes the first British person to sell enslaved Africans	1562
St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre	1572
Roanoke Colony established (then deserted)	1583
Edict of Nantes passed (being a Protestant in France was now legal)	1598
East India Company established	1600
Ulster Plantations established	1606
Colony of Jamestown established	1607
John Smith ‘saved’ by Pocahontas	1619
The first enslaved people arrive on British plantations in the West Indies	1619
Pilgrims arrive on the Mayflower	1620
Edict of Fontainebleau passed (Protestantism now illegal in France) – 200,000 Huguenots flee to Britain	1685
Highland Clearances	1746
Robert Clive becomes Governor of the EIC	1763

Hint	Answer
Warren Hastings becomes Governor of India	1773
Boston Tea Party	1773
American War of Independence	1775-1783
Irish Potato Famine	1846
Sepoy Rebellion	1857
First Boer War	1880-1881
Cecil Rhodes becomes PM of Cape Colony	1881
Jewish refugees flee to Britain from Russian pogroms	1882
Britain buys the controlling share of the Suez Canal	1882
Berlin Conference – the Scramble for Africa begins	1884
Britain now owns 32% of Africa	1900
First World War	1914-1918
British Empire reaches its largest point	1922
Second World War	1939-1945
Indian Independence	1947
British Nationality Act	1948
Empire Windrush arrives in London	1948
Independence of Ghana	1957
Notting Hill Riots	1958
Kenyan Independence	1963
Britain joins the EEC (EU)	1975
Falklands War	1982
Eastern European migration to Britain	2004
Brexit	2016