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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
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