History Timeline (PDF)
Document Details
Uploaded by PurposefulAspen9244
Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra
Tags
Summary
This document provides a chronological overview of historical events, from ancient times to the mid-20th century. It includes significant dates and events across various regions and cultures, offering a comprehensive historical context.
Full Transcript
- **250 000BC** first evidence of human life tools from **flakes of flint** - **55BC** first arrival of **Romans** - **1400BC Drought** - **700BC Celts** arrival - **3000BC Henges 2400 Stonehenge** - **449BC Saxons invasion-Angles,Jutes,Saxons** - **9th century increase of li...
- **250 000BC** first evidence of human life tools from **flakes of flint** - **55BC** first arrival of **Romans** - **1400BC Drought** - **700BC Celts** arrival - **3000BC Henges 2400 Stonehenge** - **449BC Saxons invasion-Angles,Jutes,Saxons** - **9th century increase of literacy** - **878 King Alfred fights against the Vikings and wins** - **1066 Battle of Hastings,William the conqueror wins against Harold II,Crowned king in Westminster church estab. By Edward the Confessor** - **1000 Beowulf the oldes and longest surviving poem of Anglo-Saxon period** - **1086 Domesday book- survey of land,land register** - **6th century Christianity** - **1215 Magna Carta is signed-limiting royal power** - **1337-1453 Hundred years war between France and England,France won** - **1381 Wat Tyler-Peasants Revolt,aimed to abolish serfdom,reduce taxation,and end inferior treatment of lower class** - **1485-1603 Tudors Dynasty** - **14th century Plague and Black Death** - **1476 William Caxton.First printing press** - **1492 Columbus arrives in the Americas** - **1513 Battle at Flodden** - **1552 New Prayer book-protestants** - **1536 Pilgrimage of Grace5000BC** Britain became **an island** - **1601 Poor Law** - **1606 late december 100colonists departed England** - **1607 Chesapeake shore colonialism** - **1608 Search for gold** - **1609-1610 -- The starving time** - **1619- First Arrival of Africans into the Americas** - **1707 Act of Union-Forms Great Britain Scotland and England** - **1770 captain James Cook lands in Australia-claiming it for Britain** - **1776 Independence** - **1788 first fleet arrives in Port Jackson establishing penal colony in New South Wales carrying 759 convicts,2nd fleet 799 convicts** - **1801 Act of union creates the United Kingdom of GB and Ireland** - **1829 Australia establishes Perth ,Western Australiabecomes a british colony** - **1845-1852 The great famine in Ireland,leading to mass migration** - **1861-1865 april 12 Civil War** - **1863 Pennsylvania Gettysburg 50 000 dead** - **1865 april 14th Abraham Lincoln assassinated** - **1901 Commonwealth of Australia is formed** - **1916 Easter Rising in Ireland against Britain takes place** - **1920 Government of Ireland partitions the Island into Northern and Souther Ireland** - **1922 Irish free state,later republic of Ireland gains independence** - **1942 Australia bombed in WW II bombing of Darwin** - **1947 Start of the Cold War with key involvement from the USA and Britain** - **1968 Martin Luther King jr. assassinated on April 4th**
