England
1,021 entries quoted from the Wikipedia articles written per year for England, 1447 CE to 2021 CE. Each century below shows a sample spread across it; the year link on a line opens everything held for that year.
15th century
60 entries, 1447 CE to 1459 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century
- 144718 February – Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester is arrested for treason. He dies five days later.Englandsource
- 1447Unknown – Wye College is founded in Kent.Englandsource
- 1447Richard Nykke, bishop (died 1535)Englandsource
- 144811 March – Hundred Years' War: England cedes Maine to France.Englandsource
- 144823 October – Scottish victory over the English at the Battle of Sark.Englandsource
- 1448The Worshipful Company of Haberdashers receives its royal charterEnglandsource
- 1448John Talbot, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury, nobleman (died 1473)Englandsource
- 1448William Aleyn, pirate (unknown)Englandsource
- 1455November–December – Bonville–Courtenay feud leads to continued rioting and rebellion in Devon including sacking of Exeter.Englandsource
- 1455Unknown – Earliest known reference to knitting in England.Englandsource
- 145519 November – The Duke of York is reinstated as Lord Protector, acting as regent for the King.Englandsource
- 1455Marquess of Dorset, nobleman and courtier (died 1501)Englandsource
- 1455Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, commander (born 1406)Englandsource
- 145617 August – Due to the political turbulence, the court moves to Coventry; Kenilworth Castle is strengthened as the King's principal residence.Englandsource
- 1456Anne Neville, queen of Richard III (died 1485)Englandsource
- 1456Ralph de Cromwell, 3rd Baron Cromwell, soldier and diplomat (born 1393)Englandsource
- 1457Unknown – Robert Sturmy sails from Bristol on his unsuccessful attempt to break the Italian monopoly on trade in the Eastern MediterraneanEnglandsource
- 145728 January – King Henry VII of England (died 1509)Englandsource
- 14571 January – Osmund of Salisbury (died 1099) is canonised, the last English saint created until the 20th century. His remains are translated from Old Sarum to Salisbury Cathedral on 23 July.Englandsource
- 1458May – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick defeats a Spanish fleet in the English Channel.Englandsource
- 1458Thomas Docwra, Grand Prior of the English Knights Hospitaller (died 1527)Englandsource
- 1458Catherine Woodville, Duchess of Buckingham, noblewoman (died 1497)Englandsource
- 1458Thomas de Courtenay, Earl of Devon, nobleman (born 1414)Englandsource
- 145912 October – Wars of the Roses: Lancastrian victory at the Battle of Ludford Bridge. Following the battle, the Duke of York flees to Ireland.Englandsource
- 1459Walter Devereux, prominent Yorkist (born 1411)Englandsource
16th century
23 entries, 1504 CE to 1507 CE
- 150418 February – Henry Tudor created Prince of Wales following the death of his elder brother Arthur, Prince of Wales two years earlierEnglandsource
- 1504Silver shilling is the first English coin to be minted bearing a recognisable portrait of the King.Englandsource
- 1504March – Private liveried retainers banned as part of a clampdown on the feudal traditionEnglandsource
- 1504John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, Tudor nobleman and politician (executed 1553)Englandsource
- 1504Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby (born 1435)Englandsource
- 150528 June – planned marriage of Henry Tudor and Catherine of Aragon postponed when the dowry fails to arrive from Spain.Englandsource
- 1505Christ's College, Cambridge is granted a royal charter at the instigation of Lady Margaret Beaufort, the King's mother, refounding it under its present name.Englandsource
- 1505Thomas Tallis, composer (died 1585)Englandsource
- 1505Philip Hoby, politician (died 1558)Englandsource
- 1505Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, politician (died 1550)Englandsource
- 1505William Boleyn, Lord Mayor of London (born 1451)Englandsource
- 15069 February and 20 March – Treaties of Windsor ally England, Burgundy, and the Habsburgs against France. These are signed by Philip while held by Henry VII at Windsor CastleEnglandsource
- 150616 January – Philip of Burgundy lands at Melcombe Regis after the fleet carrying him to Castile runs into a violent stormEnglandsource
- 150624 April – After being extradited to England as part of Henry's agreement with Philip, Edmund de la Pole is imprisoned in the Tower of London as a rival claimant to the throne.Englandsource
- 15064 December – Thomas Darcy, Courtier (died 1558)Englandsource
- 1506Elizabeth Barton, nun (died 1534)Englandsource
- 15066 September – Sir Richard Guildford, courtier (born 1450)Englandsource
- 15068 November – Edward Hastings, 2nd Baron Hastings (born 1466)Englandsource
- 1507Thomas More leaves England to study on the Continent having made enemies amongst Henry VII's senior advisors.Englandsource
- 150721 December – Henry VII arranges a marriage between his younger daughter, Mary Tudor and Habsburg Archduke Charles.Englandsource
- 1507Ralph Sadler, statesman (died 1587)Englandsource
- 1507Nicholas Arnold, courtier (died 1580)Englandsource
- 150724 August – Cecily of York, princess (born 1469)Englandsource
17th century
864 entries, 1622 CE to 1699 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century
- 16227 January – John Pym arrested for criticizing the King in Parliament.Englandsource
- 163217 October – the court of Star Chamber prohibits all "news books" because of complaints from Spanish and Austrian diplomats that coverage in England of the Thirty Years' War is unfair.Englandsource
- 1636Unknown – Completion of excavation of Old Bedford River (begun in 1630).Englandsource
- 1640undated – Habeas Corpus Act ("An Act for the Regulating the Privie Councell and for taking away the Court commonly called the Star Chamber") passed, abolishing the Star Chamber.Englandsource
- 164223 October – First English Civil War: Royalist victory at the Battle of Edgehill, the first pitched battle of the War.Englandsource
- 16453 April – the House of Lords passes the Self-denying ordinance, requiring members of the Parliament of England to resign commissions in the armed services.Englandsource
- 164715 July – the King is allowed (at the request of Fairfax) to meet his children (James, Duke of York, Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester, and Princess Elizabeth) for what will be the last time, at the Greyhound Inn, Maidenhead.Englandsource
- 1649October – John Milton's Eikonoklastes: in Answer to a Book Intitl'd Eikon Basilike, a defence of the execution of Charles I, is published.Englandsource
- 16528 October – First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of the Kentish Knock fought in the North Sea about 30 km from the mouth of the river Thames; the Dutch are forced to withdraw.Englandsource
- 16562 April – Anglo-Spanish War: King Philip IV of Spain signs a treaty with the exiled Charles II of England for the reconquest of England.Englandsource
- 16597 August – as Booth's Uprising spreads to Liverpool, Thomas Myddelton, Randolph Egerton and fellow royalists take control of the town of Wrexham in Wales and proclaim Charles II to be King.Englandsource
- 166011 November – imprisonment of John Bunyan in Bedford Gaol for preaching without a licence.Englandsource
- 166324 March – the colony of Province of Carolina is established in North America.Englandsource
- 166519 May – Great Fire of Newport, Shropshire.Englandsource
- 1667c. February – Elkanah Settle's play Cambyses, King of Persia first performed.Englandsource
- 167018 August – John Dryden is appointed as historiographer royal.Englandsource
- 1672The Fulham Pottery is established in London by John Dwight, the earliest certainly known native stoneware manufacturer in England; it will survive until the second half of the 20th century.Englandsource
- 1675Briggflatts Meeting House built near Sedbergh.Englandsource
- 167825 October – five Catholic peers accused of involvement in the "Popish Plot" are arrested at the instance of the House of Commons and committed to the Tower of London. On 1 November, impeachment proceedings begin.Englandsource
- 168131 August – Perjurer Titus Oates is told to leave his state apartments in Whitehall; his fame begins to wane, and he is soon arrested and imprisoned for sedition.Englandsource
- 168520 June – Monmouth Rebellion: James, Duke of Monmouth, declares himself at Taunton to be King and heir to his father's Kingdoms as James II of England and Ireland and James VII of Scotland.Englandsource
- 16881 March – great fire devastates Bungay.Englandsource
- 169022 April – John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, statesman (died 1763)Englandsource
- 1694June – Henry Every leads a bloodless mutiny aboard the privateer Charles II in Spain.Englandsource
- 169720 September – the Treaty of Ryswick ends the War of the Grand Alliance; France recognises William III as King of England.Englandsource
18th century
61 entries, 1700 CE to 1707 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century
- 170024 March – Treaty of London signed between France, England and the Dutch Republic.Englandsource
- 170020 November – First boats reach Leeds from the tideway by way of the Aire and Calder Navigation.Englandsource
- 170024 June – Responsibility for vagrants passes from churchwardens to parish constables under terms of the Vagrant Removal Costs Act (1698).Englandsource
- 170124 June — the Act of Settlement 1701, by the Parliament of England, becomes law; the crown of Great Britain passes to Sophia, Electress of Hanover and her Protestant descendants on the death of Princess Anne, the heiress presumptive to the throne after her brother-in-law, King William III.Englandsource
- 1701Opening of the Bevis Marks Synagogue in London, the oldest synagogue in the United Kingdom in continuous use.Englandsource
- 170123 May — Scottish-born Captain William Kidd, having been imprisoned in Boston Gaol (Massachusetts) and Newgate Prison (London) and convicted by the High Court of Admiralty of piracy and the murder of one of his crew, is hanged at Execution Dock in Wapping. His body suffers gibbeting over the River Thames at Tilbury Point; ballads are already spreading the legend that he has left buried treasure in the Americas.Englandsource
- 1702July – 1702 English general election results in victory for the Tories.Englandsource
- 1702Ripon Obelisk designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor, triggering a fashion for obelisks in Britain.Englandsource
- 1702Castle Howard in Yorkshire is completed to the design of John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor.Englandsource
- 1702December – Daniel Defoe publishes his satiric pamphlet The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (anonymously).Englandsource
- 17031 March – the Recruiting Act 1703 goes into effect, providing for the forcible enlistment of able-bodied but unemployed men into the Army and Royal Navy in order to fight in Queen Anne's War in North America. The Act expires at the end of February 1704.Englandsource
- 170315 March – the landmark case of Rose v Royal College of Physicians is decided in the Court of Queen's Bench, beginning the end of the monopoly that the Royal College of Physicians has over the practice of medicine.Englandsource
- 170329–31 July – Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory (at Temple Bar, London) as part of his punishment for the crime of seditious libel after publishing his politically satirical pamphlet The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702) (he is released from Newgate Prison in mid-November).Englandsource
- 1703The Eddystone Lighthouse near Plymouth is destroyed in the storm together with its designer Henry Winstanley and 5 others.Englandsource
- 170326–29 November (7–10 December N.S.) – the Great Storm of 1703, an Atlantic hurricane ravages southern England and the English Channel, killing at least 8,000, chiefly at sea.Englandsource
- 17042 August (13 August NS) – War of the Spanish Succession: At the Battle of Blenheim, an allied army under John Churchill, Earl of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy including English troops defeats the Franco-Bavarian army.Englandsource
- 1704approx. date – the first modern orrery is built by George Graham and Thomas Tompion.Englandsource
- 170514 March – The Alien Act 1705 (a response to the Parliament of Scotland's Act of Security 1704) provides that Scottish nationals in England would be treated as aliens (foreign nationals), and estates held by Scots would be treated as alien property, and also that trade embargoes would be placed on Scottish staple products, unless the Scots enter into negotiations regarding a proposed Treaty of Union of the parliaments of Scotland and England by 25 December.Englandsource
- 170521 December – The Sophia Naturalization Act is passed by Parliament, which naturalizes Sophia of Hanover (next in succession to the British throne) and the Protestant "issue of her body" as British subjects.Englandsource
- 17059 April – The Queen's Theatre is opened in the Haymarket, Westminster, by John Vanbrugh and William Congreve, serving as an opera house, premiering with Gli amori di ergasto ("The Loves of Ergasto"), an Italian language opera by German composer Jakob "Giacomo" Greber. A theatre remains in operation on this site for more than 300 years, becoming Her Majesty's Theatre.Englandsource
- 170523 November – Nicholas Rowe's play Ulysses is first performed in London, starring Thomas Betterton.Englandsource
- 170623 May – War of the Spanish Succession: English troops led by John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough together with Dutch and German troops defeat the French at the Battle of Ramillies.Englandsource
- 1706The first turnpike trust is established by Act of Parliament, which appoints 32 independent local trustees to oversee the maintenance and management of the road between Fonthill in Bedfordshire and Stony Stratford in Buckinghamshire.Englandsource
- 1706Isaac Watts' verses Horae Lyricae published.Englandsource
- 17068 April – George Farquhar's play The Recruiting Officer first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.Englandsource
19th century
7 entries, 1819 CE to 1819 CE
- 181922 June – Act of Parliament to abolish private appeals following acquittals in criminal cases and to abolish trial by combat, in the aftermath of Ashford v Thornton (1818).Englandsource
- 181916 August – Peterloo Massacre in St. Peter's Field, Manchester: a cavalry charge into a crowd of radical protesters results in eleven deaths and over 400 injuries.Englandsource
- 181919 February – William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands in the Antarctic.Englandsource
- 181920 March – Burlington Arcade opens in London.Englandsource
- 181913 April – The Mansfield and Pinxton Railway, a wagonway, opens for coal traffic.Englandsource
- 18192 July – Cotton Mills and Factories Act passed, a first attempt to regulate employment of young children in textile mills.Englandsource
- 181924 July – A cabinet meeting convened by Prime Minister Lord Liverpool discusses an investigative report of an adulterous affair involving Caroline of Brunswick (wife of the regent George, Prince of Wales) and her servant Bartolomeo Pergami; the cabinet concludes that the trial of Caroline for adultery would be an embarrassment to the nation.Englandsource
20th century
4 entries, 1944 CE to 1990 CE
- 194422 March – World War II: a Royal Air Force Halifax Bomber crashed soon after take-off from Hurn Airport.Englandsource
- 198427 March – Starlight Express opens at Apollo Victoria Theatre in London.Englandsource
- 198915 April – 94 fans are killed in a crush during the FA Cup semi-final at the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield during the FA Cup semi-final between Nottingham Forest FC and Liverpool F.C. Around 300 others have been hospitalized. Several of those injured are in a serious condition and there are fears that the death toll (already the worst of any sporting disaster in Britain) could rise even higher. The youngest victim is a 10-year-old boy, the oldest is 67-year-old Gerard Baron, brother of the late former Liverpool player Kevin Baron.Englandsource
- 199031 March - 200,000 protesters in Poll Tax Riots in London in the week preceding official introduction of the Community Charge.Englandsource
21st century
2 entries, 2018 CE to 2021 CE