Migration, Empires and the People Timeline
Time Event
790-1066 Conquered and Conquerors
792 Attack on Lindisfarne
865 Great Heathen Army Revenge
874 Mercia conquered
878 Alfred the Great and English Resistance –
Battle of Edington
1002 Aethelred marries Emma of Normandy
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
1013 Sweyn Forkbeard drives Aethelred and sons
out of England
1014-1016 Cnut succeeds Sweyn and conquers England
1016 Cnut becomes King of England
1018 Cnut becomes King of Denmark
1028 Cnut becomes King of Norway
The North Sea Empire is established
1066-1560 England and France
1066 William of Normandy invades
Battle of Hastings
William I becomes both King of England and
Duke of Normandy
1106 Henry I reunites England and Normandy
1135 Matilda is named as Henry I’s successor
1154 Henry II becomes the first Angevin King of
England and ruler of French territories in
Normandy, Anjou and Aquitaine
1155 English Pope Adrian IV declares that Henry
II had authority of the Church to take over
Ireland
1171 Henry II invades Ireland
1175 Treaty of Windsor
1204 King John loses Normandy
1215 King John signs Magna Carta
, 1216 English barons invite Price Louis of France
to invade
1337 Phillip IV of France confiscates Aquitaine
The Hundred Years’ War Begins
1346 Battle of Crecy
1356 Battle of Poitiers
1415 Battle of Agincourt
1429 Siege of Orleans
1453 Battle of Castillon
The Hundred Years’ War Ends
1558 England loses Calais (last English territory in
France)
1558-1707 England in the Age of Discovery
1559 Act of Uniformity – made it illegal to not
attend official Church of England services
1584 Walter Raleigh establishes a settlement on
Roanoke Island
1595 Raleigh goes on first voyage to Guiana
1600 English East India Company is formed
1602 Dutch East India Company established
1606 Virginia Company is established
Plymouth Company is founded
1607 Jamestown is established
Plan devised to settle Protestants in Ulster
(Northern Ireland
1609-1614 The English colonists are at war with the
Powhatans
1614 Truce established through marriage
between John Rolfe and Pocahontas
1620 The Pilgrim Fathers leave for Cape Cod
Mayflower Compact
1627 Barbados colony starts to be established
1661 1661 Slave Code
1667 80 per cent of Barbados planted with sugar
cane
Time Event
790-1066 Conquered and Conquerors
792 Attack on Lindisfarne
865 Great Heathen Army Revenge
874 Mercia conquered
878 Alfred the Great and English Resistance –
Battle of Edington
1002 Aethelred marries Emma of Normandy
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
1013 Sweyn Forkbeard drives Aethelred and sons
out of England
1014-1016 Cnut succeeds Sweyn and conquers England
1016 Cnut becomes King of England
1018 Cnut becomes King of Denmark
1028 Cnut becomes King of Norway
The North Sea Empire is established
1066-1560 England and France
1066 William of Normandy invades
Battle of Hastings
William I becomes both King of England and
Duke of Normandy
1106 Henry I reunites England and Normandy
1135 Matilda is named as Henry I’s successor
1154 Henry II becomes the first Angevin King of
England and ruler of French territories in
Normandy, Anjou and Aquitaine
1155 English Pope Adrian IV declares that Henry
II had authority of the Church to take over
Ireland
1171 Henry II invades Ireland
1175 Treaty of Windsor
1204 King John loses Normandy
1215 King John signs Magna Carta
, 1216 English barons invite Price Louis of France
to invade
1337 Phillip IV of France confiscates Aquitaine
The Hundred Years’ War Begins
1346 Battle of Crecy
1356 Battle of Poitiers
1415 Battle of Agincourt
1429 Siege of Orleans
1453 Battle of Castillon
The Hundred Years’ War Ends
1558 England loses Calais (last English territory in
France)
1558-1707 England in the Age of Discovery
1559 Act of Uniformity – made it illegal to not
attend official Church of England services
1584 Walter Raleigh establishes a settlement on
Roanoke Island
1595 Raleigh goes on first voyage to Guiana
1600 English East India Company is formed
1602 Dutch East India Company established
1606 Virginia Company is established
Plymouth Company is founded
1607 Jamestown is established
Plan devised to settle Protestants in Ulster
(Northern Ireland
1609-1614 The English colonists are at war with the
Powhatans
1614 Truce established through marriage
between John Rolfe and Pocahontas
1620 The Pilgrim Fathers leave for Cape Cod
Mayflower Compact
1627 Barbados colony starts to be established
1661 1661 Slave Code
1667 80 per cent of Barbados planted with sugar
cane
