A SHORT TABLE, SHOWING THE KINGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND SINCE ALFRED THE GREAT, THE CHIEF EVENTS OF THEIR REIGNS, AND THE STYLE OF ARCHITECTURE PREVAILING IN EACH PERIOD
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Architectural Period. Sovereigns. Important Events.
Saxon or Pre-Norman Saxon Kings from Alfred the Great.
Alfred, 871 Danish invasions
Edward the Elder, 901
Athelstane, 925
Edmund, 941
Edred, 946
Edwy, 955
Edgar, 959
Edward the Martyr, 975
Ethelred the Unready, 978
Edmund Ironside, 1016
Danish Kings.
Cnut, 1017
Harold Harefoot, 1036
Hardicanute, 1040
Saxon Kings.
Edward the Confessor, 1042
Harold II. 1066 Norman Conquest
Norman and Transitional, 1066-1190 William I., 1066 Domesday compilation
William II., 1087 First Crusade, 1096
Henry I., 1100
Stephen, 1135 Civil war with Matilda throughout reign
Henry II., 1154 Murder of Becket, 1170
Early English, 1190-1280 Richard I., 1189 Third Crusade, 1189
John, 1199 The Interdict, 1208 Magna Charta, 1215 Invasion of Louis the Dauphin, 1215
Henry III., 1216 Battle of Lewes, 1264 First Parliament, 1265
Decorated, 1280-1360 Edward I., 1272 War with Scotland
Edward II., 1307
Edward III., 1327 The Black Death, 1349
Perpendicular, 1360-1500 Richard II., 1377 Wat Tyler's Rebellion
Henry IV., 1399
Henry V., 1413 Battle of Agincourt
Henry VI., 1422 Wars of the Roses
Edward IV., 1461 Wars of the Roses Printing introduced
Edward V., 1483 Murdered in the Tower
Richard III., 1483 Killed at Bosworth
Tudor, 1500-1600 Henry VII., 1485 Discovery of America, 1492
Henry VIII., 1509 Field of the Cloth of Gold, 1520 Cardinal Wolsey, 1471-1530 Dissolution of the Monasteries, 1536
Edward VI., 1547 Copy of the Bible ordered to be placed in every church
Mary, 1553 Persecution of Protestants
Elizabeth, 1558 Execution of Mary Queen of Scots, 1587 Spanish Armada, 1588
Jacobean James I., 1603 Gunpowder Plot, 1605
Charles I., 1625 Civil War began, 1642
The Commonwealth, 1649
Charles II., 1660 The Great Plague, 1665
James II., 1685 Monmouth's Rebellion, 1685 Revolution and landing of William of Orange, 1688
Queen Anne William and Mary, 1689
Anne, 1702 Union of England and Scotland
Georgian George I., 1714 South Sea Bubble, 1720
George II., 1727 Rebellion of 1745 Taking of Canada, 1759
George III., 1760 American War of Independence, 1775 French Revolution, 1789
George IV., 1820
William IV., 1830 The first railway opened Reform Act, 1832
Victorian Victoria, 1837 The Chartists, 1848 Great Exhibition, 1851 Crimean War, 1854 Indian Mutiny, 1857
Edward VII., 1901
George V., 1910