- First humans (13,000 years ago)
- Roman rule of Britain (43 - 410 AD)
- Anglo-Saxons (450-1066 AD)
- Battle of Deorham (577)
- Northumbria (654 - 954 AD)
- Vikings arrive (787 AD)
- Kingdom of England (924 - 1707 AD)
- Norman Conquest (11th century)
- Angevins (12th - 13th century)
- Magna Carta peace treaty (1215)
- Hundred Years War (1337-1453)
- Black Death arrives (1348)
- War of the Roses (1455-1487)
- Tudor period (1485-1603)
- Elizabethan era (1558-1603)
- East India Company (1600-1874)
- Jamestown settlement in America (1607)
- English Civil War (1642-1651)
- Commonwealth of England (1649-1660)
- Protectorate government (1653-1659)
- Glorious Revolution (1688-1689)
- Great Britain established (1707)
- Thirteen Colonies (1707-1775)
- South Sea Company (1711-1853)
- Seven Years War (1754-1763)
- American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)
- United States Declaration of Independence (1776)
- War of the Second Coalition (1798-1802)
- Ireland is annexed (1801)
- War of 1812 (1812-1815)
- Victorian era (1837-1901)
- First Boer War (1880-1881)
- Second Boer War (1899-1902)
- Edwardian era (1901-1914)
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Ireland gains independence (1922)
- World War II (1939-1945)
- Joins European Economic Community (1973)
- European Union referendum (2016)
- Leaves the European Union (2020)
(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of the United Kingdom at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of the United Kingdom.)
Sources
Wikipedia: History of England, History of United Kingdom
