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This is a timeline of British history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of England, History of Wales, History of Scotland, History of Ireland, Formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and History of the United Kingdom
The concept of "British history" began to emerge in the 1600s, largely thanks to the attempts of King James II to assert that the Union of the Crowns of 1603 had created a Kingdom of Great Britain, which in fact did not come into existence until a century later.
This is a timeline of English history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in England and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of England .
Pages in category "Historical events in the United Kingdom" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The stamp becomes valid for prepayment of postage from 6 May. [6] 5 May - Thomas Carlyle gives the first lecture in the series On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History; 11 May – Chartist leader Feargus O'Connor is sentenced to imprisonment in York Castle for seditious libel over speeches published in The Northern Star.
The Extreme weather events of 535–536 likely caused a great famine and decline in population. 547. Angles under Ida conquer a Celtic area called Bryneich, founding the Kingdom of Bernicia. [1] 549. A great plague causes much population loss. 550. Gildas completes his post-Roman history On the Destruction of Britain. [1] 560
6 March – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet (died 1861) 9 April – Isambard Kingdom Brunel, engineer (died 1859) 21 April – George Cornewall Lewis, statesman (died 1863) 4 May – William Fothergill Cooke, inventor (died 1879) 20 May – John Stuart Mill, philosopher (died 1873) 27 June – Augustus De Morgan, mathematician, logician (died ...
Gildas, a fifth-century Romano-British monk, was the first major historian of Wales and England.His De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae (in Latin, "On the Ruin and Conquest of Britain") records the downfall of the Britons at the hands of Saxon invaders, emphasizing God's anger and providential punishment of an entire nation, in an echo of Old Testament themes.