User:Wikidea/British history

Below are a list of pages covering the History of England and the History of the United Kingdom.

Medieval realms - Britain 1066-1500

 * Norman invasion (1066) and Thomas a Becket (1170)
 * Matilda of Boulogne (1105-1152), Stephen of England (1096-1154)
 * Parliament of England, Magna Carta (1215), First Barons' War (1215-1217)
 * Edward I of England (1239-1307), Edward II of England (1284-1327), Second Barons' War (1264-1267)
 * Crusades (1096-1272).


 * Black Death (1340-1350)
 * Edward III of England (1312-1377), Edward, the Black Prince (1330-1378)
 * Hundred Years' War (1337-1453)
 * English peasants' revolt of 1381
 * Henry V of England (1387-1422)
 * Joan of Arc (1412-1431)


 * Wars of the Roses (1455-1487)
 * Henry VI of England (1421-1471)
 * King Richard III (1452-1485)
 * Henry VII of England (1457-1509)

Themes include:
 * 1) The establishment of royal control by medieval Kings over the church
 * 2) The role of the church in secular life
 * 3) The role and importance of monasteries and nunneries
 * 4) The life of people in towns and villages, under the feudal system
 * 5) Women in medieval society
 * 6) Castles and cathedrals
 * 7) Medieval art and literature

The Making of the United Kingdom

 * King Henry VIII (1491-1547)
 * Dissolution of the monasteries (1538-1541), English reformation, Enclosure
 * Pilgrimage of Grace (1536), Kett's Rebellion (1549), Prayer Book Rebellion (1549)
 * Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex (1485-1540)
 * Thomas Cardinal Wolsey (1471-1530)


 * Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603)
 * William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520-1598)
 * Wyatt's rebellion (1554), Lady Jane Grey (1537-1554)
 * Mary I of Scotland (1542-1587), Rising of the North (1569) and Babington plot (1586)
 * Anglo–Spanish War (1585), Spanish Armada (1588), Nine Years' War (Ireland) (1594-1603)
 * Elizabethan Poor Law (1601)


 * Charles I of England (1600-1649)
 * Gunpowder plot (1605)
 * English Civil War
 * Oliver Cromwell
 * Puritanism, William Laud, John Bunyan
 * Remember, remember the fifth of November,
 * The gunpowder, treason, and plot,
 * I know no good reason why the gunpowder treason
 * Should ever be forgot.
 * Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, 'twas his intent
 * To blow up the King and the Parliament.
 * Three score barrels of powder below,
 * Poor old England to overthrow;
 * By God's providence he was catch'd
 * With a dark lantern and burning match.
 * Holloa boys, holloa boys, make the bells ring.
 * Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!
 * Hip hip hoorah!


 * Great Fire of London (1666)


 * Glorious revolution (1688)
 * Monmouth Rebellion
 * Act of Union (1707)
 * Robert Walpole (1676-1745)
 * Jacobite rising (1715 and 1745)

Britain 1750-1900

 * American war of independence and King George III
 * Seven Years' War
 * French Revolution
 * Napoleonic wars
 * British Empire


 * Industrial revolution
 * History of rail transport in Great Britain
 * Richard Trevithick, George Stephenson, Robert Stephenson
 * British agricultural revolution
 * Great Exhibition


 * Poor law and Peterloo
 * Reform Acts
 * Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom


 * Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, Crimean war and Florence Nightingale
 * Indian mutiny
 * Boer War