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Prehistoric Britain (5000-55 BCE)
Roman Britain
Anglo-Saxon
Anglo-Norman
Medieval Britain
Reformation
Age of the Empire
Modern Britain |
1264 | Simon de Montfort defeats Henry III at the Battle of Lewes |
| 1290 | Edward I expels all Jews from England | |
| 1291 | Scottish nobles allow King Edward of England to select the next Scottish King and declare allegiance to the English crown | |
| 1298 | King Edward defeats William Wallace at the Battle of Falkirk, retaining his hold on Scotland | |
| 1301 | Edward I invests his son as the Prince of Wales | |
| 1305 | William Wallace is captured and executed for treason | |
| 1314 | Robert Bruce defeats Edward II at Bannockburn | |
| 1346 | Edward III invades France, starting the Hundred Years War, and wins at the Battle of Crécy | |
| 1347 | The English capture Calais | |
| 1347 | Bubonic Plague, which has been ravaging the Continent, reaches England | |
| 1356 | Edward, The Black Prince, defeats the French at the Battle of Poitiers | |
| 1381 | The Peasants Revolt in England | |
| 1387 | Geoffrey Chaucer begins writing The Canterbury Tales | |
| 1415 | Henry V invades France and defeats French forces at Agincourt | |
| 1429 | A French force, led by Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc), relieves the siege of Orléans | |
| 1431 | Joan of Arc burned at the stake in Rouen as a heretic; Henry VI was crowned as King of France | |
| 1453 | End of the Hundred Years War | |
| 1455 | War of the Roses begins between the royal houses of York and Lancaster |
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