ÿþ<html> <head> <title> WHKMLA : Timelines : British Isles </title> <!-- copyright Alexander Ganse, 2003-2007 --> </head> <body bgcolor="lightblue" text="black" link="blue" vlink="red" alink="brown"> <style> <!-- A{ font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-face: arial; } --> </style> <DIV align ="center"> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../index.html"> <img src = "../../whkmla2.jpg" border = "0"></a></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../periods.html"> <img src = "../../meh.jpg" border = "0"> </a></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "150" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> </b></font></TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <img src = "../../region/arrowleft.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xtimelines.html"> <img src = "../timelines.jpg" border = "0"> </TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <img src = "../../region/arrowright.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD width = "100" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> </b></font></TD></TR></TABLE> <font size = "3" face = "arial"><B><i>First posted on April 30th 2003, last revised on September 21st 2007</i></b></font><BR><BR><BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center" width = "900"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "5"><B> Timeline : British Isles </B></font> <BR> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"><i> http://www.zum.de/whkmla/timelines/meh/tluk.html </i></font></B> </TD></TR></TABLE> <BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1455-1485 <BR> 1533 <BR> 1558-1603 <BR> 1588 <BR> 1604 <BR> 1605 <BR> 1641-1648 <BR> 1649-1660 <BR> 1651 <BR> 1652-1654 <BR> 1660 <BR> 1665-1667 <BR> 1672-1674 <BR> 1685-1688 <BR> 1688-1689 <BR> 1690 <BR> 1707 <BR><BR> 1715 <BR> 1740 <BR> 1745 <BR> 1756-1763 <BR> 1769-1829 <BR> 1776-1783 <BR> 1792-1815 <BR> 1800 <BR><BR> 1807 <BR> 1829 <BR> 1832 <BR> 1839-1842 <BR> 1845-1850 <BR> 1846 <BR> 1853-1856 <BR> 1867 <BR><BR> 1877 <BR> 1884 <BR> 1886-1893 <BR> 1899-1902 <BR> 1902 <BR> 1904 <BR> 1907 <BR> 1914-1918 <BR> 1916 <BR> 1918/1928 <BR> 1921 <BR> 1921-1922 <BR> 1931-1935 <BR><BR> 1938 <BR> 1939-1945 <BR> 1939 IX-1940 V <BR> 1940 VII-X <BR> 1945-1951 <BR> 1947 <BR> 1948 <BR> 1948-1950 <BR> 1957-1965 <BR> 1960 <BR> 1973 <BR> 1979-1990 <BR> 1982 <BR> </font></TD> <BR><TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "600"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> War of the Roses <BR> Church of England separated from Rome <BR> ENG : Rule of Elizabeth I. <BR> ENG : Spanish Armada defeated <BR> ENG : Book of Common Prayer published <BR> ENG : Gunpowder Plot <BR> ENG : English Civil War; King Charles I. decapitated 1649 <BR> ENG : Commonwealth of England; 1652-1658 dictatorship of Oliver Cromwell <BR> ENG : Navigation Act passed <BR> First Anglo-Dutch War <BR> ENG : Stuart Restoration; Charles II. 1660-1685 <BR> Second Anglo-Dutch War <BR> Third Anglo-Dutch War <BR> ENG : Rule of Catholic King James II. <BR> ENG : Glorious Revolution <BR> EIR : Battle of the Boyne; Irish rebels defeated, Celtic Church destroyed <BR> SC : Scottish Parliament passes Act of Union, dissolves itself; creation of United Kingdom <BR> of Great Britain <BR> SC : First Jacobite Rising <BR> ENG : Introduction of Cabinet System (Walpole) <BR> SC : Second Jacobite Rising <BR> Seven Years War saw rise of UK as the dominant colonial power (Rule, Britannia) <BR> First Industrial Revolution, centering in Britain <BR> War of American Independence <BR> Wars of the Coalition against French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte <BR> EIR : Dublin Parliament passes Act of Union, dissolves itself, creates United Kingdom of <BR> Great Britain and Ireland <BR> Britain abolishes Slave Trade <BR> UK : Catholic Emancipation Bill <BR> UK : Reform Bill (Extending Franchise) <BR> Opium War <BR> EIR : Great Famine <BR> UK : Corn Laws repealed <BR> Crimean War <BR> Canada first colony to be granted Home Rule; Australia (1901), NZ (1907), South Africa <BR> (1910) follow <BR> Queen Victoria crowned Empress of India <BR> UK : Reform Bill (Disraeli) significantly extends franchise <BR> UK : Irish Home Rule Bill (Gladstone, Parnell) debated; fails to get majority <BR> Boer War <BR> Anglo-Japanese Alliance <BR> Entente Cordiale (UK, F) <BR> Anglo-Russian Entente <BR> World War I <BR> EIR : Easter Rising <BR> UK adopts (universal) womanhood franchise <BR> Irish Free State established, within British Commonwealth <BR> Irish Civil War <BR> UK : National Government under Ramsay MacDonald; devaluates Pound (1931), pursues <BR> policy of austerity <BR> Munich Pact signed by Chamberlain <BR> World War II <BR> Phoney War <BR> Battle of Britain <BR> New Labour Administration (Clement Attlee); reforms, nationalization policy <BR> India, Pakistan released into Independence <BR> Israel, Palestine released into Independence <BR> Marshall Plan reinvigorates British Economy <BR> Decolonization in Sub-Saharan Africa <BR> UK, EIR founding members of EFTA <BR> UK, EIR join EEC <BR> Premiership of Margaret Thatcher; Economic Reforms, reduction of Welfare State <BR> Falkland War <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "700"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> WHKMLA History of the British Isles webpages : <BR> . . . <A HREF = "../../region/britain/xuk.html">http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/britain/xuk.html</A>, . . <A HREF = "../../region/xireland.html">http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/xireland.html</A> <BR><BR> Literature on British & Irish History in KMLA Library : <BR><BR> <A NAME = "bib">Bibliography</A> <BR><BR> W.A. Speck, <B>A Concise History of Britain, 1707-1975</B>, Cambridge : UP 1993; KMLA Lib.Sign. <B>941 S741c</B> <BR> Charles Arnold-Baker, <B>The Companion to British History</B>, Taylor & Francis 2001, 1408 pp., KMLA Lib.Sign. <B>R 941.003 A761c</B> <BR> Chris Cook & John Stevenson, <B>The Longman Companion to Britain since 1945</B>, Harlow : Longman (1995) 2nd ed. 2000; KMLA Lib.Sign. <B>941.084 C771t</B> <BR> Chris Cook, <B>The Longman Companion to Britain in the 19th Century, 1815-1914</B>, London : Longman 1999; KMLA Lib.Sign. <B>941.081 C771t</B> <BR> Jeremy Gregory, John Stevenson, <B>The Longman Companion to Britain in the 18th Century, 1688-1820</B>, London : Longman 1999; KMLA Lib.Sign. <B>941.07 G822l</B> <BR> Daniel Webster Hollis, The History of Ireland, Westport : Greenwood 2001, KMLA Lib. Sign. <B>941.6 H 742h</B> <BR> R.F. Foster, The Oxford History of Ireland, Oxford : UP 1989, KMLA Lib. Sign. <B>941.5 F 745o</B> <BR> Margo Todd, <B>Reformation to Revolution. Politics and Religion in Early Modern England</B></A>, London : Routledge 1995, KMLA Lib. Sign. <B>942.05 T633r</B> <BR> Alec Cairncross, <B>The British Economy since 1945</B>, Oxford : Blackwell 1992, 338 pp., KMLA Lib.Sign. <B>338.941 C136b</B> <BR> David L. Smith, <B>The Stuart Parliaments, 1603-1689</B>. London : Hoddler 1999, 260 pp., KMLA Lib.Sign. <B>328.41 S642s</B> <BR> J.C.D. Clark, <B>English Society, 1660-1832 : Religion, Ideology and Politics during the Ancien Regime</B>, Cambridge : UP 2000, 592 pp., KMLA Lib.Sign. <B>320.941 C592e</B> <BR> Peter Matthias, <B>The first industrial nation : an economic history of Britain, 1700-1914</B>, London : Routledge (1969) 1993, 493 pp., KMLA Lib. Sign. <B>330.941 M431f</B> <BR><BR> John Davies, <B>A History of Wales</B>, London : Penguin 1994 [G] <BR> A.G. Dickens, Dorothy Carr (ed.), <B>The Reformation in England to the Accession of Elizabeth I.</B>, Documents in Modern History, London : Edward Arnold 1967 <B>[G]</B> <BR> C. Stephenson, F.G. Marcham (ed.), <B>Sources of English Constitutional History</B>, 2 vols., NY : Harper & Row 1972 <B>[G]</B> <BR> Fitzroy MacLean, <B>Scotland, a Concise History</B>, London : Thames & Hudson (1970) 1993 <B>[G]</B> <BR> M. & C. Cruise O'Brien, <B>Ireland, a Concise History</B>, London : Thames $ Hudson (1972) 1994 <B>[G]</B> <BR> Christopher Hill, <B>The Century of Revolution 1603-1714</B>, Wokingham : van Nostrand (1961) 1980 <B>[G]</B> <BR> Kurt Kluxen, <B>Geschichte Englands</B> (History of England), Stuttgart : Kr&ouml;ner (1968) 1976, in German <B>[G]</B> <BR> I.G. Simmons, <B>An Environmental History of Great Britain</B>, Edinburgh : UP 2001 <B>[G]</B> <BR> Mark Overton, <B>Agricultural Revolution in England</B> : The Transformation of the Agrarian Economy 1500-1850, Cambridge : UP 1996, <B>[G]</B> <BR> Terence Brown, <B>Ireland, A Social and Cultural History 1922-1979</B>, Glasgow : Fontana 1981 <B>[G]</B> <BR> Siobhan Kilfeather, <B>Dublin, A Cultural History</B>, Oxford : UP 2005 <B>[G]</B> <BR> Sean Duffy (ed.), <B>Atlas of Irish History</B>, Dublin : Gill and MacMillan (1997) 2000 <B>[G]</B> <BR> Maria Kelly, <B>The Great Dying. The Black Death in Dublin</B>, Stroud : Tempus 2003 <B>[G]</B> <BR> A.J. Otway-Ruthven, <B>A History of Medieval Ireland</B>, London : Ernest Benn (1968) 1980 <B>[G]</B> <BR> Edward Norman, <B>A History of Modern Ireland</B>, Miami UP 1971 <B>[G]</B> <BR> Roy Porter, <B>London : A Social History</B>, Cambridge : Harvard UP (1994) 2001, KMLA Lib.Sign. <B>942.1 P8441</B> <BR> F.E. Halliday, <B>A History of Cornwall</B>, Thirsk : House of Stratus (1959) 2001 <B>[G]</B> <BR> Brian Cowen, <B>The Social Life of Coffee. The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse</B>, New Haven : Yale UP 2005, KMLA Lib. Call Sign <B>647.9509b C874s</B> <BR> Melanie Phillips, <B>The Ascent of Woman. A History of the Suffragette Movement and the Ideas behind it</B>, London : Abacus 2003, KMLA Lib. Call Sign <B>324.623 P558a</B> <BR> M.J. Daunton, <B>Progress and Poverty. An Economic and Social History of Britain 1700-1850</B>, Oxford : UP 1995, KMLA Lib. Call Sign <B>330.941 D242b</B> <BR> Edward Royle, <B>Modern Britain. A Social History 1750-1997</B>, London : Hodder (1987) 2007, Kmla Lib.Call Sign <B>941.07 R891m</B> <BR> François Bedarida, <B>A Social History of England 1851-1990</B>, London : Routledge 1990, KMLA Lib. Call Sign <B>942.081 B399s</B> <BR> R.D. Anderson, <B>Universities and Elites in Britain since 1800</B>, Cambridge : UP (1992) 1995, KMLA Lib. Call Sign <B>378.42 A546u</B> <BR> G.E. and K.R. Russell, <B>The English Countrywoman. A Farmhouse Social History</B>. The Internal Aspect of Rural Life 1500-1900, London : Andrew Melrose 1953 <B>[G]</B> <BR> Peter and Fiona Somerset Fry, <B>The History of Scotland</B>, NY : Barnes & Noble (1982) 1995 <B>[G]</B> <BR> Karen Jillings, <B>Scotland's Black Death, The Foul Death of the English</B>, Tempus 2003 <B>[G]</B> <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV align="center"> <A href="mailto:aganse@hotmail.com"> <IMG src="../../email.gif" border="0"></a><BR> </DIV><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> <!-- Start of CH Counter --> <script type="text/javascript"> //<!-- // chCounter v2.0.0 // settings: cstatus = "active"; visible = "0"; path_to_counterfile = "http://www.zum.de/whkmla/counter/counter.php"; urlhp = "http://www.zum.de"; //////////////// url = unescape(location.href); file = url.substring(url.lastIndexOf(urlhp) + urlhp.length, url.length); file = (file.charAt(0) != "/") ? 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