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Battle of Flodden Field: Invading England, King James IV of Scotland and thousands of other Scots were killed in a defeat at the hands of the English. 1516 18 February Mary I, the future queen of England (r. 1553-1558), is born to parents Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. 1521: Lutheran writings begin to circulate in England. 1527 21 May
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
This article presents a timeline of events in the history of the United Kingdom from AD 1900 until AD 1929. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the related History of the British Isles .
The following is a timeline of the history of London in the 20th century, the capital of England and the United Kingdom. 1900 to 1909 1900 9 ...
January 22: Edward VII became King of England and India after Queen Victoria's death. March 2 : The Platt Amendment provides for Cuban independence in exchange for the withdrawal of American troops. June : Emily Hobhouse reports on the poor conditions in 45 British internment camps for Boer women and children in South Africa .
The traditional view, that the Anglo-Saxons drove the Romano-British inhabitants out of what is now England, was subject to reappraisal in the later twentieth century. One suggestion is that the invaders were smaller in number, drawn from an elite class of male warriors that gradually acculturated the natives.
20th century in England (68 C, 9 P) 20th century in Northern Ireland (24 C, 1 P) 20th century in Scotland (39 C, 14 P) ... History of the United Kingdom (1801–1922)
The Fulham Pottery is established by John Dwight, making it the earliest certainly known native stoneware manufacturer in England; it will survive until the second half of the 20th century. [125] 1673 22 January: The impostor Mary Carleton is hanged in Newgate Prison for multiple thefts and returning from penal transportation.