This document lists 37 key moments in British history that every child should learn about, ranging from the Anglo-Saxon conquest in 500 AD to Tony Blair being elected Prime Minister in 1997. Some of the most important events mentioned include the Norman conquest of 1066, the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215, the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, the loss of the American colonies in 1776, the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, the Reform Act of 1832, and Britain joining the European Economic Community in 1973. The list provides details on important people, places, and innovations associated with each historical moment.

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37 MOMENTS IN BRITISH HISTORY
EVERY CHILD SHOULD LEARN
Taken from: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/9229379/Pupils-failing-to-
study-British-history-at-school.html
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Anglo- Durham Cathedral,
500 Venerable Bede Coming of Christianity
Saxonconquest Lindisfarne
Anglo-Saxonliterature:
900 TheDanelaw Alfred, Cnut York
Beowulf
106 The Norman William White Tower, Domesday Book, rise of
6 Conquest theConqueror London serfdom
117 Battle between king Thomas Becket, Canterbury Expansion of
0 and Church Henry II Cathedral government
121 Battle between king
King John Runnymede Firstuniversities
5 and barons
Consultation of Henry III,
125
barons and Edward I, Simon Westminster Abbey Rise of wooltrade
8
townsmen de Montfort
Robert the
131 Scottish and
Bruce, Llewllyn, Welshcastles Gothic architecture
4 Welshwars
and Edward I
Black Death and
138 Wat Tyler,
Peasants' revolt Medieval London subsequent plague
1 Richard II
epidemics
141 Agincourt and 100 Chivalricliterature:
Henry V CinquePorts
5 Years' War Arthurianlegends
148 Richard II, Bosworth, Tower Caxton's printing press,
Defeat of Yorkists
5 Henry VII of London, Bristol Cabot's voyages
Henry VIII,
153 Execution of Inns of Court, Break with Rome,
Thomas
5 Thomas More Hampton Court Enclosures
Cromwell
Philip and Mary,
155
CatholicRestoration Thomas Oxford Tudor architecture
3
Cranmer
Elizabeth I,
158 Defeat of Spanish Protestantascendancy,
Burleigh, Tilbury
8 Armada Elizabethan drama
Walsingham
James I,
161 King James Bible,
King James BIble LancelotAndrew Lambeth Palace
1 Jacobean drama
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Execution of Charles I,
Thomas Hobbes, John
164 Charles I and Archbishop Whitehall Palace,
Milton's poems and
9 Cromwellian Laud, Oliver Huntingdon
tracts
conquest of Ireland Cromwell
168 Glorious Revolution James II, Royal Society, Newton
StPaul'sCathedral
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Boyne (1690) Revolution, John Locke,
Christopher Wren
Beginnings of
170 Union of England Duke of
Blenheim Palace Agricultural Revolution
7 and Scotland Marlborough
(JethroTull)
Beginning of
172 Sir Robert John Wesley and
Walpole'sadministra Houghton Hall
1 Walpole Methodism
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Treaty of Paris,
176 Elder Pitt, FoundationofBritishMus
securing Canada etc. British Museum
3 George III eum
for Crown
Spinning Mule: key John Watt,
176
moment in Industrial JosiahWedgwoo Ironbridge Steampower
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Revolution d
Lord North,
177 Boston perhaps too Adam Smith's Wealth of
Loss of 13 Colonies George
6 far away... Nations
Washington
180 Pitt, Nelson, Portsmouth Edmund Burke, Thomas
Battle of Trafalgar
5 Wellington (theVictory) Paine
Scicience Museum,
182 Opening of CastIereagh ,
York Railway Stephenson'sRocket
5 firstrailway Cannmg
Museum
Reform Bill and
183 Wilberforce, Factory Act and
1833 Abolition of Liverpool
2 Wellington workhouses
Slavery
Chartists, and 1846 Industrial
183 Penny Post (1840),
Repeal of Corn Peel Manchester or
8 Darwin'svoyage
Laws what's left of it
188 Irish Home Rule Gladstone, HughendenManor, Suez Canal under
6 Bill Disraeli OsborneHouse British control
190
Entente Cordiale Edward VII Buckingham Palace Motorcars
4
Admiralty Arch
191
Treaty of Versailles Lloyd George and Whitehall, War League ofNations
9
memorials
193 Statute of RamsayMacdon Dominions released
Art Deco cinemas
1 Westminster ald, Baldwin from British control
194 Chartwell,
Churchill as PM Churchill, Eden Spitfire
0 CabinetWarRooms
194 Welfare State, 1944
Labourlandslide Attlee, Bevin Suburban semis
5 Education Act, UN
British Empire and Large-scale migration
194 Gandhi,
Indianindependence Commonwealth from Indian sub-
7 Mountbatten
Museum (Bristol) continent
196 British
Wind of Change Macmillan As above
0 withdrawalfromAfrica
196 British troops O'Neill, Paisley, NationalArmyMuseTerroristattacksonmainla

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9 deployed in Ulster Taoiseach Lynch um nd
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197 Heath, Brave new
UK joins EEC Discriminationoutlawed
3 Callaghan architecture
1975
Margaret
198 Building of
Miners' strike Thatcher, Collieries
4 ChannelTunnel
Scargill
199 Tony Blair, Ideally, Houses of Internet and
Blair electedtopower
7 Gordon Brown Parliament globalization