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Author: Robert Peal
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Contents
10,000 BC | Prehistoric England
597 | The Arrival of Christianity
1060s and 70s | Norman Conquest
1170 | Murder of Thomas Becket
1215 | King John and the Magna Carta
1348 | Order of the Garter
1348 | The Black Death
1381 | The Peasants’ Revolt
1387 | The Canterbury Tales
1415 | Agincourt
1459 | The Wars of the Roses
1483 | The Princes in the Tower
1485 | The Battle of Bosworth Field
1509 | Henry VIII
1534 | Anne Boleyn
1534 | The English Reformation
1547 | Henry VIII’s death
1553 | Mary I and the Counter-Reformation
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