History of the British people

Romain Britain

Anglo-Saxons

There were three dominant Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: Wessex, Mercia and Northumbria.

Some of the finest Anglo-Saxon art can be admired in the Church of St Mary and St Hardulph in (previously) Mercia's Breedon on the Hill.

Tudor Britain

Civil war and revolution

Charles I & II

• 10 March (1629): Charles dissolves Parliament and starts an 11-year period of personal rules.
• 22 August (1642): Civil War begins as Charles I raises his standard at Nottingham.
• 5 May (1646): Charles I surrenders to the Scots.
• 30 January (1649): Charles I is executed at Whitehall, London.
• 1 January (1651): Charles II is crowned king of Scotland.
• 3 September (1651): Final battle of the English Civil War with Cromwell defeating Charles II in Worcester.
• 29 May (1660): Charles II is restored to the throne.
• 6 February (1685): Charles II dies and James II accedes to the throne.

Victorian Britain

Queen Victoria reigned from 20 June (1837) till 22 January (1901).

World War I

World War II

Contemporary Britain