Table xxx
| Period name |
BC/AD |
From |
To |
Rule |
| Prehistory
|
BC |
250,000 |
1,800 |
Old, Middle and New Stone ages |
| 1,800 |
600 |
Bronze Age |
| 600 |
AD 43 |
Iron Age |
| Roman
|
AD |
43 |
410 |
Roman Conquest and eventual abandonment |
| Saxon & Vikings
|
410 |
650 |
Dark Ages |
| 650 |
830 |
Seven Kingdoms |
| 829
|
839 |
Egbert |
| 871
|
899 |
Alfred |
| 924
|
940 |
Athelstan(king raised execution age from 12 to 15) |
| 940
|
978 |
5 boy kings |
| 978
|
1013 |
Ethelred |
| 1013
|
1014 |
Forkbeard |
| 1016
|
1035 |
Canute |
| 1042
|
1066 |
Edward |
| 1066
|
1066 |
Harold |
| Norman
|
1066 |
1087 |
William I
|
| 1087 |
1100 |
William II |
| 1100 |
1135 |
Henry I |
| 1135 |
1154 |
Stephen |
| Medieval
|
1154 |
1189
|
Henry II
|
| 1189 |
1199 |
Richard I
|
| 1199 |
1216 |
John(Magna Carta) |
| 1216 |
1272 |
Henry III (20 January 1265 - first parliament) |
| 1272 |
1307 |
Edward I
|
| 1307 |
1327 |
Edward II
|
| 1327 |
1377 |
Edward III(hundred years war)(Black death) |
| 1377 |
1399 |
Richard II(Peasants revolt) |
| 1399 |
1413 |
Henry IV
|
| 1413 |
1422 |
Henry V
|
| 1422 |
1461 |
Henry VI(hundred years war ends) |
| 1461 |
1483 |
Edward IV
|
| 1483 |
1483 |
Edward V
|
| 1483 |
1485 |
Richard III
|
| Tudor
|
1485 |
1509
|
Henry VII(Columbus discovers new world) |
| 1509 |
1547 |
Henry VIII
|
| 1547 |
1553 |
Edward VI
|
| 1553 |
1558 |
Mary I
|
| 1558 |
1603 |
Elizabeth I(Defeat of Spanish Armada) |
| Stuart
|
1603 |
1625
|
James I(Guy Fawkes) |
| 1625 |
1649 |
Charles I(English Civil War) |
| 1649 |
1660 |
Cromwell
|
| 1660 |
1685 |
Charles II(Monarchy restored) |
| 1685 |
1688 |
James II
|
| 1689 |
1702 |
William & Mary(Gorious Revolution)(BOE est) |
| 1702 |
1714 |
Anne
|
| Georgian
|
1714 |
1727
|
George I(Industrial revolution) |
| 1727 |
1760 |
George II
|
| 1760 |
1820 |
George III(BostonTea party,American independence)(Battle of Trafalgar,Waterloo) |
| 1820 |
1830 |
George IV(Catholic freedom of worship) |
| 1830 |
1837 |
William IV(Abolition of Slavery, capital punishment for theft) |
| 1837 |
1901 |
Victoria(Abolition of public hanging)(Britain rules 1/4 world) |
| Windsor
|
1901 |
1910
|
Edward VII(Old age pension, Suffragettes) |
| 1910 |
1936 |
George V(WW1, Russian revolution) |
| 1936 |
1936 |
Edward VIII |
| 1936 |
1952 |
George VI(WW2) |
| 1952 |
Present
|
Elizabeth II(Hanging abolished) |
|
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