English History: People, places and events that built a country. Robert Peal

       1558 | Elizabeth I

       1580 | Sir Francis Drake

       1587 | Mary Queen of Scots

       1588 | The Spanish Armada

       1590 | Shakespeare

       1603 | King James VI and I

       1605 | The Gunpowder Plot

       1629 | Charles I and Parliament

       1642 | The English Civil War

       1649 | Regicide

       1649 | Cromwell’s Commonwealth

       1660| Restoration

       1666 | Great Fire of London

       1687 | Sir Isaac Newton

       1688 | The Glorious Revolution

       1707 | The Act of Union

       1714 | The House of Hanover

       1721 | Britain’s First Prime Minister

       1739 | Highwaymen

       1740 | Rule, Britannia!

       1745 | Jacobite Uprising

       1755 | Dr Johnson’s Dictionary

       1763 | The Seven Years War

       1700s | Food and Empire

       1770 | Captain Cook and Australia

       1772 | The Slave Trade

       1775 | Britain’s First Factories

       1776 | American Revolution

       1776 | Steam Engine

       1788 | Mad King George

       1791 | Rights of Man

       1805 | The Battle of Trafalgar

       1813 | Jane Austen

       1815 | Duke of Wellington

       1829 | The Metropolitan Police Force

       1830 | The Railway Age

       1833 | Child Labour

       1833 | Abolition of the Slave Trade

       1837 | Queen Victoria

       1846 | The Workhouse

       1851 | Industrial Cities

       1851 | The Great Exhibition

       1854 | Florence Nightingale

       1859 | On the Origin of Species

       1859 | Brunel

       1859 | Big Ben

       1863 | Association Football

       1870 | Charles Dickens

       1888 | Jack the Ripper

       1899 | The Boer War

       1912 | Titanic

       1913 | Emily Davison

       1914 | The First World War

       1916 | The First Day of the Somme

       1918 | Armistice Day

       1922 | The BBC

       1926 | General Strike

       1936 | Abdication

       1940 | Dunkirk

       1940 | The Battle of Britain

       1941 | The Home Front

       1945 | VE Day

       1948 | The NHS

       1948 | The Empire Windrush

       1953 | Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

       1956 | Suez Crisis

       1966 | World Cup Win