United Kingdom (combined)
Explore United Kingdom (combined) on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Norman Conquest of England (1066)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Magna Carta (1215)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Watson and Crick discover DNA structure (1953)
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
- Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- World War II (1939)
- British East India Company chartered (1600)
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1387)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Acts of Union 1707 (1707)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- Joyce's Ulysses (1922)
- Winston Churchill (1874)
- Brexit referendum (2016)
- Reign of William the Conqueror (1066)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)
- Battle of Hastings (1066)
- World War I (1914)
- Britain abolishes the slave trade (1807)