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This is a timeline of English history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in England and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of England. Prehistory: Mesolithic/Neolithic periods • Bronze/Iron Ages.
England has been continuously inhabited since the last Ice Age ended around 9000 BC, the beginning of the Middle Stone Age, or Mesolithic era. Rising sea-levels cut off Britain from the continent for the last time around 6500 BC.
Discover thousands of years of England’s history, stretching from the arrival of the earliest known humans 900,000 years ago to the 63-year reign of Queen Victoria. Take a chronological journey through the key periods in England's past, and discover how the changes that the country has seen can be traced through English Heritage's sites.
British history divided into 10 main timelines explaining what was happening in England and Britain during the last six thousand years
Explore the timline of England.
This is a timeline of British history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.
Explore all of British history, from the Neolithic to the present day, with this easy-to-use interactive timeline.