Timeline of events in the UK
5-6th Christianisation of Ireland
9-11th Viking invasions of Ireland, England and Scotland
12th 1066 Battle of Hastings
1057 Princedoms of Wales united by Grufydd ap Llywelyn
Henry II: papal permission to invade Ireland
Henry II becomes high king of Ireland, king John becomes king of Ireland
13th Principality of Wales: princes of Gwynedd
1215 Magna Carta (feudal rights regulation)
1283 Edward I: conquest of Wales -> unofficial annexation
(official annexation 1536)
1296 Edward I: conquest of Scotland
14th 1314 Robert the Bruce expels the English out of Scotland
1320 Declaration of Arbroath: unoficcial independence of Scotland
1328 Treaty of Edinburgh: Edward III renounces his claim on Scotland an
officially acknowledges the independence of Scotland
15th Wales becomes independent by Owain Glyndwr
16th 1536 Official annexation of Wales
1542 Henry VII becomes king of Ireland by his surrender and regrant policy
1562 Start of the transatlantic slave trade (end: 1833)
1593 9 years’ war (end 1603)
17th Colonisation of Ireland -> plantations
1603 Union of the crowns (Scotland and England) -> James VI of Scotland also
becomes king James I of England
1642 English civil war (end: 1651)
1649 Cromwellian republic
1641 Irish revolt
1688/89 Glorious revolution
18th 1707 Acts of Union (Scotland and England united)
1787 Society for effecting the abolition of the slave trade
1798 Irish revolution
19th 1801 Act of union -> annexation of Ireland
1805 Nelson and the battle of Trafalgar
1807 Abolishment of slave trade
1832 Reform Act: reformation of voting rights
1833 Act of parliament to abolish slavery
1845 Potato blight in Ireland -> famine
1857 Indian Mutiny
1865 Morant Bay rebellion in Jamaica
Start of coal mining in Wales
20th 1905 Sinn Fein established
1914 Home Rule Bill (Ireland)
1916 Easter uprising (Ireland)
1919 Unofficial declaration of Irish independence: Irish republic + Dail Eireann
1921 Independence of Ireland acknowledged: secession of Ireland -> Irish free
state
1922 Northern Ireland created
1925 Plaid Cymru established
1927 Liverpool association for the welfare of half-caste children
5-6th Christianisation of Ireland
9-11th Viking invasions of Ireland, England and Scotland
12th 1066 Battle of Hastings
1057 Princedoms of Wales united by Grufydd ap Llywelyn
Henry II: papal permission to invade Ireland
Henry II becomes high king of Ireland, king John becomes king of Ireland
13th Principality of Wales: princes of Gwynedd
1215 Magna Carta (feudal rights regulation)
1283 Edward I: conquest of Wales -> unofficial annexation
(official annexation 1536)
1296 Edward I: conquest of Scotland
14th 1314 Robert the Bruce expels the English out of Scotland
1320 Declaration of Arbroath: unoficcial independence of Scotland
1328 Treaty of Edinburgh: Edward III renounces his claim on Scotland an
officially acknowledges the independence of Scotland
15th Wales becomes independent by Owain Glyndwr
16th 1536 Official annexation of Wales
1542 Henry VII becomes king of Ireland by his surrender and regrant policy
1562 Start of the transatlantic slave trade (end: 1833)
1593 9 years’ war (end 1603)
17th Colonisation of Ireland -> plantations
1603 Union of the crowns (Scotland and England) -> James VI of Scotland also
becomes king James I of England
1642 English civil war (end: 1651)
1649 Cromwellian republic
1641 Irish revolt
1688/89 Glorious revolution
18th 1707 Acts of Union (Scotland and England united)
1787 Society for effecting the abolition of the slave trade
1798 Irish revolution
19th 1801 Act of union -> annexation of Ireland
1805 Nelson and the battle of Trafalgar
1807 Abolishment of slave trade
1832 Reform Act: reformation of voting rights
1833 Act of parliament to abolish slavery
1845 Potato blight in Ireland -> famine
1857 Indian Mutiny
1865 Morant Bay rebellion in Jamaica
Start of coal mining in Wales
20th 1905 Sinn Fein established
1914 Home Rule Bill (Ireland)
1916 Easter uprising (Ireland)
1919 Unofficial declaration of Irish independence: Irish republic + Dail Eireann
1921 Independence of Ireland acknowledged: secession of Ireland -> Irish free
state
1922 Northern Ireland created
1925 Plaid Cymru established
1927 Liverpool association for the welfare of half-caste children
