The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 28
Historical, Epochs and Landmarks
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Historical, Epochs and Landmarks.
A.D. | |
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Crucifixion of our Lord | 29 |
Revolt of the Britons under Boadicea | 61 |
Jerusalem destroyed. | 70 |
Constantine embraced Christianity | 313 |
The Romans quitted Britain | 418 |
Egbert, first king of England | 829 |
Alfred the Great, king 871 Canute of Denmark king of England | 1017 |
Battle of Hastings— | |
Harold killed | 1066 |
Introduction of the Feudal system | 1070 |
Crusades commenced | 1096 |
Civil War between the Empress Maud and Stephen | 1138 |
Ireland invaded by Henry II | 1171 |
Richard I. ransomed | 1194 |
King John granted Magna Charta | 1215 |
First regular Parlt | 1265 |
The first Act of Parliament 6 Edward I | 1278 |
Wales united to Eng-land | 1283 |
Wallace executed | 1305 |
Battle of Bannock-burn | 1314 |
Edward II. murdered | 1327 |
Calais captured by Edward III | 1347 |
French defeated at Poictiers | 1356 |
Wat Tyler's rebellion | 1381 |
Death of Wyckliffe | 1385 |
Battle of Agincourt | 1415 |
Constantinople taken by the Turks | 1453 |
Wars of Roses | 1455 |
House of York came to the Throne | 1461 |
Bible first printed at Mentz | 1462 |
Caxton set up his printing-press | 1471 |
Discovery of America by Columbus | 1492 |
Battle of Flodden | 1513 |
First English Bible (Coverdale's) | 1535 |
Monastries suppres'd. | 1593 |
Cranmer burnt | 1556 |
Calais taken from the English | 1558 |
Accession of Queen Elizabeth | 1558 |
St. Bartholomew Massacre | 1572 |
Mary Queen of Scots beheaded | 1587 |
Spanish Armada defeated | 1588 |
India Company first chartered | 1600 |
Union of the Crowns (England and Scot-land) | 1603 |
Gunpowder Plot | 1605 |
Jamestown, first English settlement in America | 1607 |
Long Parliament assembled | 1640 |
Charles I. beheaded | 1649 |
Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector | 1653 |
Monarchy restored | 1660 |
Act of Uniformity | 1662 |
Plague of London | 1665 |
Fire of London | 1666 |
Habeas Corpus Act passed | 1679 |
Monmouth's rebellion | 1685 |
William and Mary elected | 1689 |
Battle of the Boyne | 1690 |
National Debt begins | 1692 |
Prussia first made a kingdom | 1701 |
Gibraltar taken by the English | 1704 |
Legislative Union of England with Scot-land | 1707 |
Accession of the house of Hanover | 1714 |
South Sea Bubble | 1720 |
Scotch Rebellion | 1745 |
Seven Years' War begins | 1756 |
Battle of Lexington (first American battle) | 1775 |
Independence of U.S. | 1782 |
Rodney's victory. | 1782 |
First Settlement in Australia | 1788 |
Louis XVI. executed | 1793 |
Mutiny at the Nore | 1797 |
Irish rebellion | 1798 |
Battle of the Nile | 1798 |
Union of Britain and Ireland | 1801 |
War with France resumed | 1803 |
Buonaparte Emperor of the French | 1805 |
Battle of Trafalgar | 1805 |
Battle of Corunna | 1809 |
Restoration of the Bourbons | 1814 |
Battle of Waterloo | 1815 |
Bombardment of Algiers | 1816 |
Trial of Queen Caroline | 1820 |
Battle of Navarino | 1827 |
Cholera in England | 1831 |
First Reform Act passed, 7th June | 1832 |
Accession of Queen Victoria | 1837 |
Penny Postage commenced, 10th Jan | 1840 |
Tower of London burnt | 1841 |
Sir John Franklin sailed | 1815 |
Corn Laws repealed | 1816 |
Louis Philippe expelled | 1848 |
Chartist demonstration in London | 1818 |
Great Exhibition in Hyde Park. London | 1851 |
Louis Napoleon Emperor of French | 1852 |
Battle of Inkerman. | 1854 |
Russian War | 1854 |
Capture of Sebastopol | 1855 |
Indian Mutiny | 1857 |
Cobden Treaty with France | 1860 |
Italy made an independent kingdom | 1861 |
American Civil War | 1861 |
Second International Exhibition | 1862 |
Alabama sailed from the Mersey | 1862 |
War between Germany and Denmark | 1864 |
Cattle Plague in England | 1865 |
Atlantic telegraph completed | 1866 |
French troops left Rome | 1867 |
Reform Act passed. | 1867 |
Abyssinian War | 1868 |
Irish Church disestablished | 1869 |
Franco-Prussian War | 1870 |
3d French Republic | 1870 |
Paris capitulated to Prussians | 1871 |
Ballot Act passed | 1872 |