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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 .
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of York, North Yorkshire in northern England. ... History of education in England; History of English;
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 Elizabethan era was the epoch in English history of Queen Elizabeth I's reign (1558–1603). Historians often depict it as the golden age in English history. The symbol of Britannia was first used in 1572 and often thereafter to mark the Elizabethan age as a renaissance that inspired national pride through classical ideals, international ...
After the war, York slowly regained its former pre-eminence in the North, and, by 1660, was the third-largest city in England after London and Norwich. In 1686 the Bar Convent was founded, in secret due to anti-catholic Laws, making it the oldest surviving convent in England. York elected two members to the Unreformed House of Commons.
1327 Edward III usurps the English throne in January, Edward II is killed in September; 1328 England recognises Scotland's independence in the Treaty of Edinburgh–Northampton; 1338 Edward III claims the throne of France, initiating the Hundred Years' War; 1348 The Black Death first arrives in England and ultimately kills c. one third of the ...
The Constitutional History of Medieval England from the English Settlement to 1485 (4th ed.). Adams and Charles Black. Keynes, Simon (1998). "Alfred and the Mercians". In Blackburn, Mark A.S.; Dumville, David N. (eds.). Kings, currency, and alliances: history and coinage of southern England in the ninth century.
King Edmund I of England (died 946) 923 King Eadred of England (died 955) 943/44 King Edgar of England (died 975) c. 950 Sigeric the Serious, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 994) c. 955 Ælfric of Eynsham, abbot and religious writer (died 1010) c. 962 King Edward the Martyr (died 978) 968 King Æthelred the Unready (died 1016)