Last update: March 31, 2011
UK & Ireland History Summary:
927 E Kingdom of England
843 S Kingdom of Scotland
1171 I Lordship of Ireland
1283 W Pricipality of Wales
1536 +W Principality of Wales -> Kingdom of England
1541 Kingdom of Ireland
1707 +S Kingdom of Scotland -> Kingdom of
GB
1801 +I UK of GB & Ireland
1922 -i Irish independence
1927 official chg to
UK of GB & N Ireland
1949 Republic of Ireland (Irish Free State ->
Éire)
2001 Ire adopts
Euro
43-410 Roman Britain
400-600 Anglo-Saxon England
600-800 Heptarchy
800-1066 Viking Age
UK History 20th Century Timeline:
-
Labour
in power 1945~51
- Post
WWII: 1945 onwards
- Foreign
and defence policy from 1945
- India
and Pakistan gain independence 1947
- Conservatives
in power 1951~1964
- Queen
Elizabeth and the role of the monarchy from 1952
- The
Suez crisis 1956
- European
Union from 1957
- Harold
Wilson and Labour 1964~1970
- Civil
Rights campaign in Northern Ireland 1968
- The
'British Disease' 1970~1979
- Thatcherism
1979~1990
- The
Falklands conflict 1982
- John
Major and the Conservative Party 1990~1997
- The
Gulf War 1991
- Tony
Blair and New Labour 1997~2007
- Peace
negotiations in Northern Ireland 1998 onwards
- Kosovo 1999
- Gordon Brown 2007~1010
- David Cameron
May 2010~