927 England is unified by Athelstan of England after a long process of annexation.
959 Edgar the Peaceable becomes king of all England.
1002 English king Æthelred II orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice's Day massacre.
1066 Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England.
1066 The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking invasions of England.
1066 William the Bastard (as he was known at the time) invades England beginning the Norman Conquest.
1066 William the Conqueror is crowned king of England, at Westminster Abbey, London.
1174 William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173–1174, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England.
1189 Richard I "the Lionheart" is crowned King of England.
1192 Richard the Lion-Heart is captured and imprisoned by Leopold V of Austria on his way home to England after signing a treaty with Saladin ending the Third crusade.
1216 King John of England loses his crown jewels in The Wash, probably near Fosdyke, perhaps near Sutton Bridge
1217 The Second Battle of Lincoln is fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince Louis of France by William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke.
1264 Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the ''de facto'' ruler of England.
1290 King Edward I of England issues the Edict of Expulsion, banishing all Jews (numbering about 16,000) from England; this was Tisha B'Av on the Hebrew calendar, a day that commemorates many Jewish calamities.
1293 Robert Winchelsey leaves England for Rome, to be consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury.
1295 Scotland and France form an alliance, the so-called "Auld Alliance", against England.
1296 Edward I sacks Berwick-upon-Tweed, during armed conflict between Scotland and England.
1297 Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scots jointly-led by William Wallace and Andrew Moray defeat the English.
1301 Edward of Caernarvon (later King Edward II of England) becomes the first English Prince of Wales.
1318 Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured by the Scottish from the English.
1322 Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence.
1327 Edward III becomes King of England.
1327 Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.
1337 Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy made in England.
1350 Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships.
1355 The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
1356 Battle of Poitiers: an English army under the command of Edward, the Black Prince defeats a French army and captures the French king, John II.
1364 Battle of Auray: English forces defeat the French in Brittany; end of the Breton War of Succession.
1373 Anglo-Portuguese Alliance between England (succeeded by the United Kingdom) and Portugal is the oldest alliance in the world which is still in force.
1377 Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of English theologian John Wycliffe.
1381 Peasants' Revolt: in England, rebels arrive at Blackheath.
1403 Battle of Shrewsbury: King Henry IV of England defeats rebels to the north of the county town of Shropshire, England.
1413 Henry V becomes King of England.
1413 Henry V is crowned King of England.
1429 French forces under the leadership of Joan of Arc defeat the main English army under sir John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay. This turns the tide of the Hundred Years' War.
1435 An agreement between Charles VII of France and Philip the Good ends the partnership between the English and Burgundy in Hundred Years' War.
1450 Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France.
1453 Hundred Years' War: Battle of Castillon: The French under Jean Bureau defeat the English under the Earl of Shrewsbury, who is killed in the battle in Gascony.
1459 Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, is fought at Blore Heath in Staffordshire.
1470 Henry VI of England returns to the English throne after Earl of Warwick defeats the Yorkists in battle.
1471 In England, the Yorkists under Edward IV defeat the Lancastrians under the Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Barnet; the Earl is killed and Edward IV resumes the throne.
1475 The Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between France and England.
1477 William Caxton produces ''Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres'', the first book printed on a printing press in England.
1492 King James IV of Scotland concludes an alliance with France against England.
1499 Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London. He had invaded England in 1497, claiming to be the lost son of King Edward IV of England.
1503 James IV of Scotland and Margaret Tudor are married according to a Papal Bull by Pope Alexander VI. A Treaty of Everlasting Peace between Scotland and England signed on that occasion results in a peace that lasts ten years.
1509 Henry VIII ascends the throne of England on the death of his father, Henry VII.
1511 Spain and England ally against France.
1532 Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.
1532 Lady Anne Boleyn is made Marchioness of Pembroke by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England.
1534 The Irish rebel Silken Thomas is executed by the order of Henry VIII in London, England.
1536 Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, stands trial in London on charges of treason, adultery and incest. She is condemned to death by a specially-selected jury.
1547 Henry VIII dies. His nine year old son, Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England.
1547 The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, the last full scale military confrontation between England and Scotland, resulting in a decisive victory for the forces of Edward VI.
1553 Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.
1554 A year after claiming the throne of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason.
1554 A royal Charter is granted to Derby School in Derby, England.
1558 France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.
1560 The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation of Scotland.
1569 First recorded lottery in England.
1572 Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England.
1577 Sir Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage.
1577 Francis Drake sails from Plymouth, England, on a secret mission to explore the Pacific Coast of the Americas for English Queen Elizabeth I.
1578 Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich, England to Frobisher Bay, Canada, eventually to mine fool's gold, used to pave streets in London.
1579 Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls ''Nova Albion'' (modern California) for England.
1581 The English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism.
1586 Battle of Zutphen: Spanish victory over England and Dutch.
1587 Virginia Dare, granddaughter of governor John White of the Colony of Roanoke, becomes the first English child born in the Americas.
1588 The Spanish Armada is spotted off the coast of England.
1603 James VI of Scotland also becomes James I of England.
1603 English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason.
1606 The ''Susan Constant'', the ''Godspeed'', and the ''Discovery'' depart England carrying settlers who found, at Jamestown, Virginia, the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States.
1608 The first official English representative to India lands in Surat.
1609 Bermuda is first settled by survivors of the English ship Sea Venture ''en route'' to Virginia.
1612 The "Samlesbury witches", three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury, England, are put on trial, accused for practicing witchcraft, one of the most famous witch trials in English history.
1613 The first English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.
1613 The Globe Theatre in London, England burns to the ground.
1613 The first English expedition from Massachusetts against Acadia led by Samuel Argall takes place.
1614 In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
1618 English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
1619 38 colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God (this is considered by many to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas).
1620 The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England, on the ''Mayflower'' to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.)
1622 Jamestown massacre: Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population.
1628 Writs issued in February by Charles I of England mandate that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date.
1632 Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed, returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629.
1644 Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil.
1648 England's Long Parliament passes the Vote of No Addresses, breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War.
1649 An Act of Parliament declaring England a Commonwealth is passed by the Long Parliament. England would be a republic for the next eleven years.
1655 England, with troops under the command of Admiral William Penn and General Robert Venables, annexes Jamaica from Spain.
1659 Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England following the restoration of the Long Parliament, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the Commonwealth of England.
1660 Margaret Hughes becomes the first actress to appear on an English public stage, playing the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare's play Othello.
1662 The Act of Uniformity requires England to accept the Book of Common Prayer.
1663 The English Parliament passes the second Navigation Act requiring that all goods bound for the American colonies have to be sent in English ships from English ports.
1664 New Jersey becomes a colony of England.
1664 The Dutch Republic surrenders New Amsterdam to England.
1665 English King Charles II declares war on the Netherlands marking the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1666 In London, England, the most destructive damage from the Great Fire occurs.
1667 The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet begins. It lasts for five days and results in a decisive victory by the Dutch over the English in the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1671 Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal England's Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
1674 England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, and it is renamed New York.
1674 Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherlands to England.
1675 John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England.
1683 The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum.
1685 Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth is executed at Tower Hill, England after his defeat at the Battle of Sedgemoor on 6 July 1685.
1687 The city council of Amsterdam votes to support William of Orange's invasion of England, which became the Glorious Revolution.
1689 William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England.
1689 The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting Protestants. Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded.
1695 A window tax is imposed in England, causing many shopkeepers to brick up their windows to avoid the tax.
1697 The Treaty of Rijswijk is signed by France, England, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic ending the Nine Years' War (1688–97).
1701 James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland.
1702 ''The Daily Courant'', England's first national daily newspaper is published for the first time.
1703 Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty which gives preference to Portuguese imported wines into England.
1704 War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles.
1717 The Premier Grand Lodge of England, the first Masonic Grand Lodge in the world (now the United Grand Lodge of England), is founded in London, England.
1727 A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire, England kills 78 people, many of whom are children.
1757 English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
1767 Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.
1779 American Revolution: a squadron commanded by John Paul Jones on board the {{USS|Bonhomme Richard|1765|6}} wins the Battle of Flamborough Head, off the coast of England, against two British warships.
1780 James Cook's ship ''HMS Resolution'' returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
1785 Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
1787 Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the "First Fleet") to establish a penal colony in Australia.
1788 The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay.
1791 The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England.
1800 England takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaçao.
1803 English scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.
1807 Most of the English town of Chudleigh is destroyed by fire
1831 Soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester, England cause it to collapse.
1834 Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
1836 The worst ever avalanche in England occurs at Lewes, Sussex, killing 8 people.
1837 A system of the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales.
1850 The Great Fire of Cottenham, a large part of the Cambridgeshire village (England) is burnt to the ground under suspicious circumstances.
1850 The Roman Catholic hierarchy is re-established in England and Wales by Pope Pius IX.
1857 Sheffield F.C., the world's first football club, is founded in Sheffield, England.
1858 The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of the Hallé Orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra.
1859 The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge linking the counties of Devon and Cornwall in England.
1859 The first conformation dog show is held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.
1860 The first ever inter-club football match takes place between Hallam F.C. and Sheffield F.C. at the Sandygate Road ground in Sheffield, England.
1864 The Great Sheffield Flood: The largest man-made disaster ever to befall England kills over 250 people in Sheffield.
1865 The Salvation Army is founded in the East End of London, England.
1867 The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish nationalists from custody.
1869 Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women.
1883 The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England kills 183 children.
1884 Greenwich, in London, England, is established as Universal Time meridian of longitude.
1885 The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
1886 Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
1888 In England the first six Football League matches are played.
1894 The Manchester Ship Canal, England, is officially opened to traffic.
1894 The Manchester Ship Canal in England is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
1899 13 crew members and 5 apprentices are rescued off the coast of England by the Lynmouth Lifeboat.
1904 The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team (Welsh & Scottish players) in Central Park, Wigan, England.
1904 Charles Stewart Rolls meets Frederick Henry Royce at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, England.
1906 Cunard Line's {{RMS|Mauretania|1906|6}} is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
1907 Sir Robert Baden Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England. The camp runs from August 1 to August 9, 1907, and is regarded as the foundation of the Scouting movement.
1907 The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England.
1908 The first beauty contest is held in Folkestone, England.
1909 Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lord's and form the Imperial Cricket Conference.
1910 Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition leaves England.
1912 The ''Titanic'' leaves port in Southampton, England for her first and only voyage.
1919 The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.
1924 The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.
1925 Canada House opens in London, England.
1929 The Gillingham Fair fire disaster kills 15 in England.
1930 Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
1933 English cricketer Wally Hammond set a record for the highest individual Test innings of 336 not out, during a Test match against New Zealand.
1934 The Glyndebourne festival in England is inaugurated.
1936 The International Surrealist Exhibition opens in London, England.
1938 World speed record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the ''Mallard'', which reaches a speed of {{convert|126|mph|km/h}}.
1938 English cricketer Len Hutton sets a world record for the highest individual Test innings of 364, during a Test match against Australia.
1940 World War II: The first German bombs of the war fall on England at Chilham and Petham, in Kent.
1940 Balham subway station disaster, in London, England, occurs during the Nazi Luftwaffe air raids on Great Britain.
1940 World War II: In England, the city of Coventry is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers. Coventry Cathedral is almost completely destroyed.
1941 A fire in a clothing factory in Huddersfield, England kills 49
1944 World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets.
1945 The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43
1956 The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield,in Cumbria, England.
1963 Great Train Robbery: in England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal 2.6 million pounds in bank notes.
1963 The University of East Anglia is established in Norwich, England.
1964 Charlie Wilson, one of the Great Train Robbers, escapes from Winson Green Prison in Birmingham, England.
1966 Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors Murders in England.
1969 Capital punishment in the United Kingdom: Home Secretary James Callaghan's motion to make permanent the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965, which had temporarily suspended capital punishment in England, Wales and Scotland for murder (but not for all crimes) for a period of five years.
1973 A fire at a house in Hull, England which kills a six year old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by arsonist Peter Dinsdale.
1975 The Dibble's Bridge coach crash near Grassington, North Yorkshire, England kills 32 – the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom.
1975 The inaugural Cricket World Cup begins in England.
1975 The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter had announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England.
1979 The East Coast Main Line rail route between England and Scotland is restored when the Penmanshiel Diversion opens.
1980 The Radio Caroline ship, Mi Amigo founders in a gale off the English coast.
1981 The opening of the Humber Bridge by HM The Queen in England.
1986 Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England.
1987 The Great Storm of 1987 hits France and England.
1989 An IRA bomb destroys a section of a British Army barracks in Ternhill, England
1992 In England, a fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, badly damaging the castle and causing over £50 million worth of damage.
1996 The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes a large bomb in the middle of Manchester, England.
1999 Wolverhampton, England is hit by storms which include a tornado. The area is hit again with severe storms on August 1.
2003 Concorde makes its final flight, over Bristol, England.
2004 Twenty-three Chinese people drown when a group of 35 cockle-pickers are trapped by rising tides in Morecambe Bay, England. Twenty-one bodies are recovered.
2004 An express train collides with a stationary carriage near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing 7 and injuring 150.
2005 Tornadoes touch down in a residential areas in south Birmingham and Coventry England, causing £4,000,000 worth of damages and injuring 39 people.
2005 The Buncefield Oil Depot catches fire in Hemel Hempstead, England.
2007 A train derails on an evening express service near Grayrigg, Cumbria, England, killing one person and injuring 22. This results in hundreds of points being checked over the UK after a few similar accidents.
2007 Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces.
2009 The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered, consisting of more than 1,500 items, is found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, England.