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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
History of Europe. The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500–1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500). The first early European modern humans appear in the fossil record about 48,000 years ago, during the ...
The history of the British Isles began with its sporadic human habitation during the Palaeolithic from around 900,000 years ago. The British Isles has been continually occupied since the early Holocene, the current geological epoch, which started around 11,700 years ago. Mesolithic hunter-gatherers migrated from the Continent soon afterwards at ...
t. e. The history of the United Kingdom begins in 1707 with the Treaty of Union and Acts of Union. The core of the United Kingdom as a unified state came into being with the political union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland, [ 1 ] into a new unitary state called Great Britain. [ a ] Of this new state, the historian Simon Schama said:
England, which had subsumed Wales in the 16th century under Henry VIII, united with Scotland in 1707 to form a new sovereign state called Great Britain. [ 8 ][ 9 ][ 10 ] Following the Industrial Revolution, which started in England, Great Britain ruled a colonial Empire, the largest in recorded history.
Britain declares war on Nazi Germany and enters World War 2: 1945 8 May Germany surrenders and World War 2 ends in Europe 1948 5 July The National Health Service is founded 1973 1 January: UK joins the European Communities (predecessor of the European Union). 1982 11 October: The Mary Rose is raised from the seabed of the Solent, where she had ...
1305 Capture and execution of Scottish resistance fighter William Wallace by the English on a charge of treason. 1306 Robert the Bruce kills John Comyn III of Badenoch and is crowned King of Scotland. 1307 Death of Edward I, Edward II accedes to the English throne. 1314 Decisive victory for Scotland over England at the Battle of Bannockburn.
t. e. Anglo-Saxon England or Early Medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th centuries from soon after the end of Roman Britain until the Norman Conquest in 1066, consisted of various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms until 927, when it was united as the Kingdom of England by King Æthelstan (r. 927–939).